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Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on July 27, 2016, 10:53 AM:
 
Common Market (1962) is a double length Look At Life distributed by DCR (Dave West) of Sandown, Isle of Wight. It is on LPP stock but the colour is not too high a standard for LPP, perhaps the original did not have good colour. Don't get me wrong, the colour is quite acceptable. Tim Turner was obviously on holiday when this was made as the commentary is by the veteran broadcaster, John Snagge.

The film is an assessment of the purpose of the Common Market during a period in which its (then) member States had begun to remove trade barriers. The last title reads, "What will the Common Market be to Britain? Watch Look at Life again soon."

Look at Life was a popular British series of short documentary films of which over 500 were produced between 1959 and 1969 by the Special Features Division of the Rank Organisation for screening in their Odeon and Gaumont cinemas, it replaced the circuit's newsreels which had become increasingly irrelevant in the face of more immediate news media, particularly from television.

DCR issued many from the series, as did Derann, although the latter may have sourced from DCR as their Super 8 labels look surprisingly similar.
 

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Posted by David Roberts (Member # 197) on July 31, 2016, 02:32 AM:
 
I am a keen fan of the Look At Life series,they captured the feel of the 60"s very well and were very optimistic in their outlook.
 

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Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on August 16, 2016, 11:54 AM:
 
I can't get enough of these!

Some favorites:

The Big Blow
The Other Film World
Shopping for a Queen
Spirit of Brooklands
Jumping Jets
Auto Cine (The only drive-in theater film I've ever found in 8mm.)
Under Your Feet

They might be able to revive newsreels these days, they'd probably need to find better news than we've been having recently though....
 

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Posted by Joe Caruso (Member # 11) on August 17, 2016, 08:38 AM:
 
Put shorts back in the theatres - I have my arguments why - Shorty
 

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Posted by Daniel Macarone (Member # 5102) on August 17, 2016, 06:46 PM:
 
Shorty, Disney Pixar are always putting a cartoon short before their features in theaters, but those are for a limited audience. I do wish good live action short films had the avenue of first run theaters, not just hopeful film festival submissions.
 

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Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on August 18, 2016, 03:41 AM:
 
Like the old newsreels. They tell you more in 10 minutes than the 24 hour TV news channels.
 

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Posted by David Hardy (Member # 4628) on August 21, 2016, 05:40 PM:
 
Do any of you guys remember those "Mining Review" shorts ?
I have one on 35mm.
I remember having to wax those Movietone Newsreels as they
were "green prints" fresh from the labs.
We had different ones to show Mon/Tues/Weds then one
for Thurs/Fri/Sat.
Ah the "good old days"!
 

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Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on August 22, 2016, 08:48 AM:
 
Hi Dave,

Mining Review shorts came up on 16mm Forum recently:

Mining Review
 

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Posted by David Hardy (Member # 4628) on August 22, 2016, 10:07 AM:
 
Steve thanks for that link to the 16mm forum.
Very interesting.
We showed them as programme fillers to take up time in
some shows if the features were very short running times.
 

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