Edgar Anstey Movies

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

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

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.

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 look at the 1953 transport infrastructure of York.

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

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

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...

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

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...

An illustrated lecture given by Dr. Beeching on the development and improvement of Britain's major railway trunk routes. Offers a forecast of the...

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.

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

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

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...

Snowploughs are readied to rescue a snowbound train - in one of the most popular of all British Transport Films.

Light verse and gay music make their own comment on the holidaymakers of the Yorkshire coastline. Between Tees and Humber thousands each year enjoy...

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...

Film showcasing the tourist attractions, culture and natural beauty of Ireland.

A 200-ton transformer is moved by road from Hayes, Middlesex, to Iver, Bucks. Behind the story of the journey there is another tale: the problems...