Look At Life: Volume One - Transport (DVD)

Look at Life was a regular series of short documentary films produced in the 1960s by the Special Features Division of the Rank Organisation and screened in their Odeon and Gaumont cinemas - replacing the circuit's newsreel, Universal News, which had become largely irrelevant with the advent of television news broadcasts. Marvellously concise and beautifully shot, these 'slice of life' colour featurettes - numbering over 500 episodes in total - presented cinemagoers with varied aspects of contemporary British life, and among the documentaries included here are several that vividly capture the vibrancy and optimism of the Swinging Sixties. Digitally restored from the original film elements, this release compiles 54 memorable films which offer a fascinating snapshot of transport in 1960s' Britain, with many unseen since their first screening. Ticket to Tokyo
Letting Off Steam
New Roads for Old
Flight on a Cushion
Talking of Coaches...
Alpine Rescue
Shopping for a 'Queen'
Sailing the Sky
Driving Test
Shape of a Ship
Air Hostess
Taxi! Taxi!!
All Through the Night
Over and Under
Horse-power Riders
Eyes of the Law
Scooter Commuter
Sea Horses
So They All Hover Now
The Village Sleeps Again
Birdmen
Draw the Fires
The Car Has Wings
Vintage Models
Pilot Aboard
Where No Tide Flows
High, Wide and Faster
Oil Aboard
Report on a River
Europe Grows Together
Turn of the Wheel
City of the Air
Behind the Ton-Up Boys
Going Places Under Water
Living with Cars
Flying to Work
The Spirit of Brooklands
Weather Adviser
What Price Safety?
Down in the Dumps
Cats of the Sea
Breaking the Ice
Skimming Through the Sixties
The Big Take-Off
Lighter Than Air
Just an Accident
Scrambling for It
The Straits of Dover
Where Do You Leave the Boat?
Pushing the Bike
Playing Trains
The City's For Living In
All in a Day's Work
A Load of Pheasants