Movies: Rank Organisation Special Features Division

The work of Britain's traffic wardens, through the eyes of one of them. Apart of "Look at Life" documentary films of which over 500 were produced between 1959 and 1969 by the Special Features Division of the Rank Organisation for screening in their ...

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....

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 ...

Part of the Look at Life Rank series reels. A look at the SOHO bohemian coffee bars of London in the 1950s....

A look into London's street markets and how they're suffering to compete with supermarkets....

A look at the dredging of the River Thames so the new big ships can sail along....

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....

A fascinating look at the advertising industry, with a focus on how it works and what it does...

A look at the 750 ships that pass through the five mile wide shipping channel every day....

A look at the people who prepare salvaged steel to be re-used, also with a glimpse at the steel foundries which melt it all down again....

We take to the air in planes and helicopters with a look at the increasing number in Britain's airspace; including a glimpse of the businessmen, jockeys, and models taking off....

Filmed in Sarawak, we take a look at Britain's trouble shooters - the Royal Marines....

Join the cool kids on the Kings Road and Carnaby Street as youth fashion brings a welcome splash of colour to Britain. “Don't take it too seriously, or you'll be missing the point!”...

Demonstrating the police's communications systems....

A look at the educational centres where training in technical subjects is aiming to keep pace with the demands of this scientific age....

A look at the unlikely buildings that have been made into homes, with a glimpse of a house built like a child's construction set....

Exploring some of the industrial applications of film, and the many ways in which it is used as a tool in man's search for knowledge....

A look at the work of the Press Association with its teleprinters and fast movement to get the news out....

An insight into the life of British models, with a look at the rewards of the job....

The captivating story of Britain's pilotage services to shipping....