Edgar Anstey Movies

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

Scottish Television's film on the 40th Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1986, starring Robbie Coltrane (a former EIFF chauffeur) and...

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

On the shortest journey you pass a church or two. Out of the 20,000 churches in Britain, the artist, John Piper, whose work contributes to the glory...

The Cotswolds are the largest areas of Britain, stretching over a hundred miles from Chipping Camden to the city of Bath.

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

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

The Yorkshire Dales - 'from which no traveller wishes to return'. Sheltering under the Pennines, the Dales have escaped the human ravages of time....

How the London Transport Board, with the aid of modern technology, is tackling the problems brought about by an ever increasing volume of traffic....

Report No. 8 in a series of 13 topical films, produced since the far reaching plan for the modernisation and re-equipment of British Railways in 1955...

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

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

There have been railways in this country for over three hundred years. In the nineteenth century, railways spread across Britain and changed the...

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

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

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...

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

Short documentary showing the workings of a large London sorting office.

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