Edgar Anstey Movies

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.

Blue Pullman is a 1960 short documentary film directed by James Ritchie, which follows the development, preparation and a journey from Manchester to...

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...

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

The operation of the London Transport central Lost Property Office at Baker Street. Collected in BFI's "London on the Move."

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

Avant-garde appeal on behalf of and made by the adventurous leftist London cinema, The Other Cinema, using the facilities provided by the BBC...

On the shortest journey you pass a church or two. Out of the 20,000 churches in Britain, the artist, John Piper, whose work contributes to the glory...

A short documentary.

A film about one of the most responsible and professional jobs on British Railways. Practical work in shop and signal box, on gantry and trackside,...

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

A group of workers from a Leicester shoe-making company travel down south for a day in the Smoke.