Edgar Anstey Movies

When Joe Miller breaks his ankle on the shop floor, he is sent with some trepidation to the British Railways rehab centre, a cross between a modern...

Whether it is a paddle in the sea or a visit to some Roman remains, a day spent watching the countryside go by or an afternoon's inspection of a...

The Peak District waits invitingly within a sixty-mile reach of half the population of England. To this green centre of a great industrial area, the...

A poet's eulogy to his beloved mode of transport.

A group of workers from a Leicester shoe-making company travel down south for a day in the Smoke.

The original LCC project for the replanning and building of London explained by two architects responsible for the plan, Sir Patrick Abercrombie and...

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

Sets out to persuade businesspeople of the advantages of going from city to city by train. How it gives them time to relax, work or sleep in comfort.

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

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

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

Time lapse photography shows the swarm of commuters at London Waterloo station racing about at top speed.

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

Behind Britain's railway modernisation lies research, design and development. Research ensures in various ways that passengers travel fast, safely...

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.

The problem of slum dwellings in the 1930s.

Blue Pullman is a 1960 short documentary film directed by James Ritchie, which follows the development, preparation and a journey from Manchester to...

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."

Information on the different groups and organizations that are there to help the population during wartime.

A journalist chats on the unusual excursions possible from nodal stations on Europe's train networks. Douglas Browne, journalist and traveller, takes...