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Browse 316 movies from The Rank Organisation Special Features Division
A look at how Merseybeat groups revolutionised pop music in Britain and across the world.
Jan 1964
A look at the business of beauty.
Jan 1959
An examination of the relationship between humans and animals, both domestic and wild.
Jan 1968
A look at the world of scampi, which increased in popularity during the 1960s.
Jan 1969
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
Filmed in Sarawak, we take a look at Britain's trouble shooters - the Royal Marines.
A trip to Denmark to look at the Danish way of life.
Jan 1967
A look at all the various practised religions in India
A look at the impact of road traffic on cities and their environments.
A look at the world of lifts, with a study of the problems faced by engineers to get office workers up to the top of tall buildings.
Jan 1961
A study of design, and who designs are for, by following students at the Hornsey College of Art in Great Britain.
An exciting look at some of the girls of the WRAF who trekked into the jungle, and who also took part in a jungle survival exercise, parachute jumps, and sub aqua diving.
Jan 1966
A look at Sir Francis Chichester and Sir Alec Rose who show what it means to sail around the world single-handed and the ten men who then set out to prove it can be done without stopping at all.
Following the life of the eel and the business involved to satisfy their consumers.
A look at the changing social scene within British pubs of the late 1960s.
This documentary in the Look At Life series – made by the Rank Organisation for screening in Odeon and Gaumont cinemas – was released in 1967 and anticipated a radical redevelopment of Piccadilly Circus, which never actually happened.
Nov 1967
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 look into the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS), sixteen years after the Second World War, showing the full range of duties carried out.
Demonstrating the police's communications systems.
The manufacture and multifarious uses of an abundantly available substance: ice.