Edgar Anstey Movies

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

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

Thirty Million Letters is a 1963 short documentary film directed by James Ritchie and made by British Transport Films. It was nominated for an...

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

A British documentary short about nutrition

A documentary looking at a day at Croydon Airport south of London.

Donald Houston plays a Welshman who tells the story of what it's like to live in small town Wales and how the train service helps.

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

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 cautionary tale of a typical holiday suitcase. Crammed beyond its capacity, imperfectly fastened, inadequately and confusedly labelled, the...

A British documentary on tunneling if a building falls in ruins.

Intended as a sales tool for manufacturers, this short film details the production installation and maintenance for long welded track in use on...

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

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

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...

Through the forward-looking windows of the new diesel multiple-unit trains reveals a new world of signs, signals and railway sights to those who ride...

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

A look at the 1953 transport infrastructure of York.

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