The Rank Organisation’s Look at Life series was a concise, bright ‘cine-magazine’, shot on 35mm colour film, that ran in Odeon and Gaumont cinemas from 1959-68 and which, before the main feature, presented cinemagoers with myriad aspects of British life in the 1960s.
Over 500 Look at Life films were made, offering a treasure trove of high quality footage. One volume, covering more aspects of transport than you could possibly imagine, has already been released and this second collection, which includes many films that have remained unseen since the 1960s, features 45 films on the theme of the military.
Among the many films included here are those on the subjects of aerial acrobatic teams, ceremonial soldiers, the Women’s Royal Naval Service and the WRAF, the NAAFI, bomb disposal squads, the training of Royal Marine Commandos, test pilots, amphibious craft, ‘jumping jets’, the Royal Green Jackets, unexploded WWII ordnance, free-fall parachutists, and plenty more besides!
