Edgar Anstey Movies

Edgar Anstey and Arthur Elton’s sponsored documentary on Britain’s malnutrition crisis, blending expert testimony (Julian Huxley, J. B....

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

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...

A freight train travelling between Kirkby and Barnard Castle has become snowbound in the Westmoreland hills. The Motive Power, Operating and...

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

The work of a team of men who tackle a special British Road Services job in the treacherous terrain of the Scottish Highlands.

Industrial film showcasing Hull’s status as a thriving international port.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

One of four wartime farming films showing the four seasons in 1941 and 1942, Winter on the Farm was made at Upton Manor Farm, Uploders, Dorset, and ...

The film version of Dr. Richard Beeching's plan for the re-shaping of British Railways, showing some of the problems involved, the research...

A documentary examining the modernization of Britain’s railways through large-scale engineering and infrastructure renewal.

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."

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

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

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