Edgar Anstey Movies

Three short films from the Fifties, offering an insight into day to day life amongst the beautiful scenery of the Scottish Highlands. 'Heart Is...

In the Hull Docks, the steamer S.S. Bravo arrives from Gothenburg with cargo.

A random selection of housewives around the UK take a day off from their traditional domestic chores.

Newsreels from the '30s constitute the bulk of this fascinating documentary, clearly illustrating that the public was fed an extremely biased view of...

Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire,...

A school journey through the city of London as seen through the eyes of the children and their teacher.

A film looking at the first 100 years of the Underground Railway in London from 1863 to 1963. A range of well known people and senior managers speak...

Short documentary hymning the wonders of 'modernisation' on the railways.

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...

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 transporting of a distillation colurm, 137 feet long, 500 miles by road from Greenwich to Grangemouth in Scotland. The commentary, spoken by the...

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...

A romantic overview of England in the Elizabethan Age.

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

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

Report No. 8 in a series of 13 topical films, produced since the far reaching plan for the modernisation and re-equipment of British Railways in 1955...

Replacing a century-old rail tunnel at Woodhead, co-ordinated road haulage services in Argyllshire, Whitemoor freight marshalling yeard, Bristol bus...

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

A British documentary short about nutrition

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...