Edgar Anstey Movies

A romantic overview of England in the Elizabethan Age.

A film looking at the first 100 years of the Underground Railway in London from 1863 to 1963. A range of well known people and senior managers speak...

Listen up, apprentices! Learn how to smooth and shape metal – an important wartime skill.

Coach passengers give their reasons for preferring that type of transport. A group of ramblers visit the Welsh mountains; an angler and his family...

Underlines the importance of waterways as mans of modern transport. Details the way in which the network of waterways covers britain.

The film's contents are as follows: Merry-go-round coal trains - between collieries and power stations; Motorail; stations - Birmingham New St.,...

Industrial film showcasing Hull’s status as a thriving international port.

A short documentary.

Sussex - A country rich in scenic beauty and history. South Down and Weald - open space and green woodland. This is Sussex, a county rich in scenic...

Thirty Million Letters is a 1963 short documentary film directed by James Ritchie and made by British Transport Films. It was nominated for an...

Short documentary hymning the wonders of 'modernisation' on the railways.

This film shows us a world of wildlife and flowers and scenic beauty within easy reach of London - where people can enjoy yachting on the Thames, or...

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."

Twenty-four hours in the story of the British Railways Channel ferryboats, the 'link spans' directly joining the roads and railways of Britain with...

Packaged holidays for the elderly: a party of 'senior citizens' (60-plus) on a holiday which includes a special train from Newcastle to the Isle of...

In the cities of Britain we can travel in time as well as space. This film chooses the England of Hogarth, Gainsborough, Robert Adam and Captain...

The final episode of five reports on the construction of the Victoria Line in London. This one is edited highlights from the first four with very...

There have been railways in this country for over three hundred years. In the nineteenth century, railways spread across Britain and changed the...

The challenge of what to feed her family weighs on the mind of hard-pressed Mrs Bond in this surreal wartime film made for the Ministry of Food.

A look at everyday life in the crofting community of Achriesgill in Sutherland.