Edgar Anstey Movies

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

The film is designed to encourage recycling - which was a key part of the war effort.

The film version of Dr. Richard Beeching's plan for the re-shaping of British Railways, showing some of the problems involved, the research...

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

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

Examines Britian's industrial heritage, concentrating on the period between 1708 and 1850, and showing many examples of surviving relics of the...

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

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

Exploration of the Slimbridge Wild Fowl Trust in Gloucestershire, England, which boasts the largest collection of living wild fowl in the world.

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

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

Twenty-four hours in the story of the British Railways Channel ferryboats, the 'link spans' directly joining the roads and railways of Britain with...

In the cities of Britain we can travel in time as well as space. This film chooses the England of Hogarth, Gainsborough, Robert Adam and Captain...

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...

Time lapse photography shows the swarm of commuters at London Waterloo station racing about at top speed.

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

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...

Report No. 9 in a series of 13 topical films, covering: Euston; ships - Freightliner II, Antrim Princess; container handling Parkeston Quay;...

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...

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