Edgar Anstey Movies

Grierson set out to make "propaganda," and this film--with it's voice-over proclaiming the great value of the British industrial worker, without a...

Documentary following an Edinburgh fishing trawler, the "Isabella Grieg".

Comprising train and track footage quickly shot just before a heavy winter's snowfall was melting, the multi-award-winning classic that emerged from...

Southampton, a deep-water port with four tides a day, is an ocean terminal for the world's largest liners. Their coming and going, and the people who...

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...

Lively holiday in Blackpool, with jazz accompaniment.

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

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

The film's contents are as follows: Merry-go-round coal trains - between collieries and power stations; Motorail; stations - Birmingham New St.,...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

The Peak District waits invitingly within a sixty-mile reach of half the population of England. To this green centre of a great industrial area, the...

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

The problem of slum dwellings in the 1930s.

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

Originally intended as an advertising short, this film follows The Elizabethan, a non-stop British Railways service from London to Edinburgh along...