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Browse 311 movies from The Rank Organisation Special Features Division
A look into the appeal of the four hundred castles halls and mansions in Britain that are open to the public.
Jan 1961
A look at the restoration of vintage vehicles with visits to the Montagu Motor Museum at Beaulieu in the New Forest, the high-speed trials at Silverstone, and the famous London-to-Brighton run.
Jan 1963
A study of design, and who designs are for, by following students at the Hornsey College of Art in Great Britain.
Jan 1968
Part of the Look at Life Rank series reels. A look at the SOHO bohemian coffee bars of London in the 1950s.
Dec 1959
A look at the flourishing winter sports business within Scotland.
Following the life of the eel and the business involved to satisfy their consumers.
Filmed in Sarawak, we take a look at Britain's trouble shooters - the Royal Marines.
Jan 1964
A look at the "private clubs" of London. From the famous political clubs of the 18th century to the gambling clubs and the bohemian night clubs of the West End.
Jul 1966
A look at the women of the WRAF.
A look into the world of matches of all types. From the football match to the love match. From the boxing match to Britain's largest match factory.
A look at the boy's clubs across Britain, with a glimpse at what their future is likely to be.
Jan 1962
A look at the various aircraft flown by British pilots over the last fifty years, including the Sopwith Pup, the Hart and the Blackburn monoplane.
A look at the Ordnance Survey and the maps it has been producing for over two centuries.
A look at Britain's promising railway preservation scene, featuring a trip with the locomotive Flying Scotsman on one of its last mainline runs.
A short documentary about demolition work.
Dive into the glamorous world of the fashion model from all angles, see them at work and some of them at play. Includes a look at the model school, model agent and different types of models.
Jan 1960
A look into the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS), sixteen years after the Second World War, showing the full range of duties carried out.
A look at people who travel the world by air as part of their everyday jobs, including businessmen and women who fly around the world as easily as taking a taxi.
Jan 1969
A look into the different types of models that can be found across Britain, from model villages and model soldiers. to model aircraft.
The film Fire Over London is about the operation of the London Fire Brigade. In an office's switchboard room we see one of the hideous T&N green and ivory telephones supplied by General Telephone Systems. Another shot deep in the bowels of St Paul's Cathedral gives a glimpse of a two-tone grey ATE 'Coffin Phone' as used on Communications Systems private exchange systems.
Jan 1966