Edgar Anstey Movies

A look at the transport system in the South Wales Valleys and how it effects peoples livelihoods and everyday lives.

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

Two visitors enjoying Scotland, an enthusiastic but inexperienced golfer improving on the world's greatest courses; his wife exploring spectacular...

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

A BAFTA award winning documentary focussing on how drivers are trained to drive new electric trains in the UK.

Whether it is a paddle in the sea or a visit to some Roman remains, a day spent watching the countryside go by or an afternoon's inspection of a...

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

Impressions of a great city from daybreak to dusk. A roving camera and smooth theme music say more than words. London's traditional sights -...

A light and somewhat satirical look at the problems and pleasures of Continental holiday travel. A passenger on the Hook Continental Express from...

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

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

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

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 ...

A day in the life of London and the Home Counties in 1962, seen from the perspective of the use of London Transport facilities from buses and tubes...

Propaganda film, capturing “the work of the government’s training camps and instructional centres for unemployed men.” - NFA...

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."

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

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

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