Movies: Rank Organisation Special Features Division

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 ...

A study of design, and who designs are for, by following students at the Hornsey College of Art in Great Britain....

A look into the science of removals, following a family's move from Suffolk to Edinburgh....

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....

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

A fascinating look at canals and how they have been rediscovered by holidaymakers....

A look at the popularity of perfume and its many newer uses: from scented wrappings as an aid to sales, to scented fur coats and men's suits....

A look at the world of scampi, which increased in popularity during the 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....

A look at the annual tulip parade in Spalding, Lincolnshire....

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

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!”...

An interesting look at the many and varied do-it-yourself jobs going on all over Britain....

A focus on the issue of dumped cars, how the problem is being addressed and a look at the dumping of other unwanted articles....

Demonstrating the police's communications systems....

A focus on all the things you can do, if you are really determined, to take off those extra ounces and keep them at bay. Unveiling that there is more to the slimming business than meets the eye....

The manufacture and multifarious uses of an abundantly available substance: ice....

A peek behind the scenes at the business of the comedian and how it is being expanded for film and television....

A behind the scenes look at the record industry, with glimpses of the finished disc and how they are produced, with a focus on Helen Shapiro's 'Walkin' Back to Happiness' single....

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....