Edgar Anstey Movies

Lively holiday in Blackpool, with jazz accompaniment.

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

The problem of slum dwellings in the 1930s.

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

This fly on the wall-style documentary from 1961 won an Oscar for best documentary, and shows the changing patterns of human emotions during 24 hours...

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

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

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

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

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."

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...

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...

Snowploughs are readied to rescue a snowbound train - in one of the most popular of all British Transport Films.

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

Sussex - A country rich in scenic beauty and history. South Down and Weald - open space and green woodland. This is Sussex, a county rich in scenic...

Britain operates the most experienced diesel and electric railway in tne world. A century and a half ago she invented the steam engine and introduced...

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

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

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...

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