Edgar Anstey Movies

Building a new harbour at Port Talbot - it’s a man’s world in which the only females are a dredger and two seafaring vessels.

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...

Three short films from the Fifties, offering an insight into day to day life amongst the beautiful scenery of the Scottish Highlands. 'Heart Is...

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.

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...

A short documentary.

As a training exercise for their apprentice camera operators, British Transport Films used surplus roll end length of film to record the daily lives...

A cheerful and very colourful pastiche of live action with combined graphics set to the music of Muir Mathieson. This film typifies the image British...

‘St Christopher’s - for the children of Railway Servants’. About a hundred children are cared for at this Derby railway orphanage...

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

Edgar Anstey and Arthur Elton’s sponsored documentary on Britain’s malnutrition crisis, blending expert testimony (Julian Huxley, J. B....

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...

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...

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

After the last train at night and before the first in the morning, 800 people are hard at work behind the scenes making London's Underground fit to...

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

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

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...

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."

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