Edgar Anstey Movies

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

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...

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

The story of a journey from the Yorkshire Dales to Switzerland via Dover and France, made by a party of schoolgirls showing how British rail...

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."

Two keen hostelling youths, Ken Moody and Brian Cotton, convert a boat in their native Selby into a youth hostel, and get the chance to air their...

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...

Captures the consumption of gas by various large kitchens in London, during a particular dinner hour.

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 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.

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

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.

A short film focusing on the account of a coaching tour told by the driver, who attempts to try to create a happy atmosphere and cement friendships.

Propaganda film, capturing “the work of the government’s training camps and instructional centres for unemployed men.” - NFA...

SELNEC is the largest public transport system in Britain, outside London, covering South East Lancashire and North East Cheshire. The film shows some...

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

A BAFTA award winning documentary focussing on how drivers are trained to drive new electric trains in the UK.

This short, evocative account of the poet's life is set among contemporary scenes of the people of south-west Scotland as they grow from children to...