Look at Life - Running Times

[Melvin England]

I was always under the impression that all these Look at Life Rank documentaries had a running time of up to 9 minutes which, of course, make a complete film / documentary that fits on a 200' super 8 spool.

However, watching Talking Pictures TV the other evening, I was surprised to see a Look at Life subject entitled "Common Market" which had a running time of approx. 17 minutes !

So my questions are......

1) Does anyone know the longest running time of a Look at Life ?

2) How many made it to super 8 ?

3) Where any of these longer ones ever released at a 400' ?


Over to you.........

[Maurice Leakey]

"Common Market" (1962) was a double length issue. The normal issues were 8 minutes or thereabouts.
My Super 8 copy is 18 minutes on a 400ft spool.

[Graham Sinden]

I think Common Market was the only long look at life ever made. I also have it on super 8 complete (400ft) released by DCR on low fade.

Graham S