Edgar Anstey Movies

A documentary showing aspects of long-disappeared rural life in Northumberland in 1953.

A look at the transport system in the South Wales Valleys and how it effects peoples livelihoods and everyday lives.

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...

A school journey through the city of London as seen through the eyes of the children and their teacher.

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...

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

A cautionary tale of a typical holiday suitcase. Crammed beyond its capacity, imperfectly fastened, inadequately and confusedly labelled, the...

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

Journey into Spring is a 1958 British short documentary film directed by Ralph Keene, and made by British Transport Films. The film -- partly a...

Two keen hostelling youths, Ken Moody and Brian Cotton, convert a boat in their native Selby into a youth hostel, and get the chance to air their...

The film is designed to encourage recycling - which was a key part of the war effort.

A fond farewell to London's trams - whose peculiarly endearing qualities were discovered only at the threat of their disappearance.

Donald Houston plays a Welshman who tells the story of what it's like to live in small town Wales and how the train service helps.

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

A British documentary on tunneling if a building falls in ruins.

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...

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."

A look at the 1953 transport infrastructure of York.

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