Movies: Tim Turner

An entertaining look at the role mud plays in all of our lives....

A look into inventors and how they go about getting their inventions accepted....

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....

A look at the machines used for teaching, the educational box of tricks which is being used in many different ways....

A look at the arguments for and against building bypasses, and their effects on small towns and villages....

A look at the hard work of a test pilot's life, featuring the RAF Lightning, the 1960's supersonic watchdog of Britain's skies....

A look at the River Thames, its past and present, from source to the sea. An examination of what has been done and is being done to modernize port services and to keep traffic moving—from holiday pleasure seekers to bustling commerce....

A look at post-war fairs, exploring their popularity, and diversity of entertainment....

A glimpse at Britain's colourful confectionery industry....

A glimpse at some of the people in Britain who have something to protest about, including a look at the Aldermaston marchers and Speakers' Corner in London's Hyde Park....

The Look at Life cameras go abroad to see how Britain's goods and trade are being sold to other countries....

Inside the control tower as air traffic controllers talk down an incoming Comet aeroplane in the London fog....

A look into the organisation behind London's taxis, their maintenance, regulation of meters, training for the 'knowledge' to picking up passengers and driver welfare....

A look at the world's toughest power-boat race, taking place off Britain's South Coast, from Cowes to Torquay....

A look at archaeology and ways to preserve history....

New ways of cleaning in the mid-sixties....

The story of computers: from electronic tape and punched cards, to austere-looking robots....

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....

A short documentary about the tea drinking culture in the UK and the industry behind it....

A look at the plans to make the Isle Of Man a tourist attraction once more....