Edgar Anstey Movies

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."

A look at the 1953 transport infrastructure of York.

Sets out to persuade businesspeople of the advantages of going from city to city by train. How it gives them time to relax, work or sleep in comfort.

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

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

Light verse and gay music make their own comment on the holidaymakers of the Yorkshire coastline. Between Tees and Humber thousands each year enjoy...

The challenge of what to feed her family weighs on the mind of hard-pressed Mrs Bond in this surreal wartime film made for the Ministry of Food.

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

The story of a journey from the Yorkshire Dales to Switzerland via Dover and France, made by a party of schoolgirls showing how British rail...

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

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 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...

Captures the consumption of gas by various large kitchens in London, during a particular dinner hour.

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

SELNEC is the largest public transport system in Britain, outside London, covering South East Lancashire and North East Cheshire. The film shows some...

Behind Britain's railway modernisation lies research, design and development. Research ensures in various ways that passengers travel fast, safely...

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

This short, evocative account of the poet's life is set among contemporary scenes of the people of south-west Scotland as they grow from children to...