Edgar Anstey Movies

Avant-garde appeal on behalf of and made by the adventurous leftist London cinema, The Other Cinema, using the facilities provided by the BBC...

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

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

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

A random selection of housewives around the UK take a day off from their traditional domestic chores.

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

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

A tour of East Anglia, with its waterways and low-lying country.

A short documentary.

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

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

The people of the Scottish Highlands live in small communities set in landscapes of unsurpassed beauty.

A look at the 1953 transport infrastructure of York.

The conflict between the running of an efficient bus service and the increasing motor car traffic in Britain's towns. Describes the traffic problem...

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

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

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

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

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