Edgar Anstey Movies

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

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

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

A short film focusing on the account of a coaching tour told by the driver, who attempts to try to create a happy atmosphere and cement friendships.

The people of the Scottish Highlands live in small communities set in landscapes of unsurpassed beauty.

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

Exploration of the Slimbridge Wild Fowl Trust in Gloucestershire, England, which boasts the largest collection of living wild fowl in the world.

The holiday attractions of the Lancashire coast, including a beauty contest in Morecambe, Southport flower show and Blackpool Fun Fair.

This short, evocative account of the poet's life is set among contemporary scenes of the people of south-west Scotland as they grow from children to...

A look at life in the Fenlands (a coastal, marshy plain in eastern England) in 1940's.

Comprising train and track footage quickly shot just before a heavy winter's snowfall was melting, the multi-award-winning classic that emerged from...

A tour of East Anglia, with its waterways and low-lying country.

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

A random selection of housewives around the UK take a day off from their traditional domestic chores.

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

The operation of the London Transport central Lost Property Office at Baker Street. Collected in BFI's "London on the Move."

A freight train travelling between Kirkby and Barnard Castle has become snowbound in the Westmoreland hills. The Motive Power, Operating and...

Southampton, a deep-water port with four tides a day, is an ocean terminal for the world's largest liners. Their coming and going, and the people who...

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