Edgar Anstey Movies

Avant-garde appeal on behalf of and made by the adventurous leftist London cinema, The Other Cinema, using the facilities provided by the BBC...

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

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.

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

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...

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

The transporting of a distillation colurm, 137 feet long, 500 miles by road from Greenwich to Grangemouth in Scotland. The commentary, spoken by the...

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

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

Britain operates the most experienced diesel and electric railway in tne world. A century and a half ago she invented the steam engine and introduced...

The problem of slum dwellings in the 1930s.

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...

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.

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

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

A look at the 1953 transport infrastructure of York.

SELNEC is the largest public transport system in Britain, outside London, covering South East Lancashire and North East Cheshire. The film shows some...

Impressions of a great city from daybreak to dusk. A roving camera and smooth theme music say more than words. London's traditional sights -...

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...