Edgar Anstey Movies

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

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

The flora and fauna of the Scottish highlands, including footage of ospreys, and stags in Argyle.

After the last train at night and before the first in the morning, 800 people are hard at work behind the scenes making London's Underground fit to...

The pleasures of sailing off the Isle of Wight are described by Uffa Fox, while Ralph Wightman tells of the peaceful life of its farms and villages.

A British documentary short about nutrition

Two visitors enjoying Scotland, an enthusiastic but inexperienced golfer improving on the world's greatest courses; his wife exploring spectacular...

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

A light and somewhat satirical look at the problems and pleasures of Continental holiday travel. A passenger on the Hook Continental Express from...

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."

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

When Joe Miller breaks his ankle on the shop floor, he is sent with some trepidation to the British Railways rehab centre, a cross between a modern...

A journalist chats on the unusual excursions possible from nodal stations on Europe's train networks. Douglas Browne, journalist and traveller, takes...

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.

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...

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...

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.

Coach passengers give their reasons for preferring that type of transport. A group of ramblers visit the Welsh mountains; an angler and his family...

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

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