Edgar Anstey Movies

The history of the BRS (British Road Services), the general haulage network of the UK. Part of BFI collection "Points and Aspects."

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

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.

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

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...

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

Report No. 11 in a series of 13 topical films. Because 1970 was European Conservation Year, this issue of the Rail Report Series was devoted to...

A school journey through the city of London as seen through the eyes of the children and their teacher.

An Englishman has just got off the train at St. Enoch Station and is asking a cab driver to show him around Glasgow. Naturally, the cab driver is...

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 work of a team of men who tackle a special British Road Services job in the treacherous terrain of the Scottish Highlands.

Electrification, and the raiIway men of Rugby adopt new methods and use new machines. In this film they tell in their own words of the great...

The holiday attractions of the Lancashire coast, including a beauty contest in Morecambe, Southport flower show and Blackpool Fun Fair.

Intended as a sales tool for manufacturers, this short film details the production installation and maintenance for long welded track in use on...

A documentary looking at a day at Croydon Airport south of London.

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

Listen up, apprentices! Learn how to smooth and shape metal – an important wartime skill.

Through the forward-looking windows of the new diesel multiple-unit trains reveals a new world of signs, signals and railway sights to those who ride...

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...