This 1959 film was made by The Rank Organisation as part of their Look at Life series. The Look at Life short films were shown at Odeon and Gaumont cinemas between 1959 and 1968 before the main feature. More than 500 Look at Life films were made.
This particular film on Coffee Houses is absolutely packed with delights from start to finish, and it resonates on very many levels. One observation - it seems its not just our High Streets that have become identikit…
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Thank you to Steve McGrath.
There were some scary looking people in that film!!
“The Partisan, where university students and other assorted eggheads meet to put the world right… or even left.” LOL!
Excellent! I remember well these short films before the main feature. I’d love to see more of them
There’s a shedload of the Look at life films on DVD now. Well, maybe ‘shedload’ is an exaggeration, seeing as that the DVD only has about fourteen or so films, which is nowhere close to 500. But still, it’s a nice little collection…
Gotta love the waitress baffled by the Cockney rhyming slang at 4.55.
Wow, is anyone *not* smoking in this?
Love the way the waitress near the beginning asks for “two cappuccini” - ah, the linguistic accuracy!
Smashing stuff (sigh) - wish Soho looked like that now…….
Any images of turkish coffee shops in Soho 1958?
[...] Kaffetrinken im Soho der 1950er [...]