Edgar Anstey Movies

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

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.

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...

In the Hull Docks, the steamer S.S. Bravo arrives from Gothenburg with cargo.

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

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.

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

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

The problem of slum dwellings in the 1930s.

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."

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

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

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 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...

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

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

Replacing a century-old rail tunnel at Woodhead, co-ordinated road haulage services in Argyllshire, Whitemoor freight marshalling yeard, Bristol bus...

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

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

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