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Look at Life (1959)

1959-01-01 · EN
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Look at Life was a regular British series of short documentary films of which 507 were produced between 1959 and 1969 by the Special Features Division of the Rank Organisation for screening in their Odeon and Gaumont cinemas. The films always preceded the main feature film that was being shown in the cinema that week. It replaced the circuit's newsreel, Universal News, which had become increasingly irrelevant in the face of more immediate news media, particularly on television with the launch of ITN on the Independent Television service, which began broadcasting in parts of the United Kingdom in 1955.

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Tim TurnerTim TurnerNarratorDeryck GuylerDeryck GuylerNarratorDuncan CarseDuncan CarseNarratorMichael HendersonMichael HendersonNarratorKay HammondKay HammondNarratorJohn LanghamJohn LanghamNarratorCliff MichelmoreCliff MichelmoreNarratorMichael IngramsMichael IngramsNarratorJohn WittyJohn WittyNarratorGordon TannerGordon TannerNarratorJohn SnaggeJohn SnaggeNarratorPhilip JoubertPhilip JoubertNarrator

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Genre affinityDocumentaryActor preference402185 · 185531 · 1480934Country preferenceGbDecade preference1950

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Look at Life was a regular British series of short documentary films of which 507 were produced between 1959 and 1969 by the Special Features Division of the Rank Organisation for screening in their Odeon and Gaumont cinemas. The films always preceded the main feature film that was being shown in the cinema that week. It replaced the circuit's newsreel, Universal News, which had become increasingly irrelevant in the face of more immediate news media, particularly on television with the launch of ITN on the Independent Television service, which began broadcasting in parts of the United Kingdom in 1955.