Edgar Anstey Filmes

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

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...

A short documentary.

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

A random selection of housewives around the UK take a day off from their traditional domestic chores.

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,...

How the London Transport Board, with the aid of modern technology, is tackling the problems brought about by an ever increasing volume of traffic....

An illustrated lecture given by Dr. Beeching on the development and improvement of Britain's major railway trunk routes. Offers a forecast of the...

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.

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

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...

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

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

A look at the transport system in the South Wales Valleys and how it effects peoples livelihoods and everyday 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 look at everyday life in the crofting community of Achriesgill in Sutherland.

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

Comprising train and track footage quickly shot just before a heavy winter's snowfall was melting, the multi-award-winning classic that emerged from...

Edgar Anstey and Arthur Elton’s sponsored documentary on Britain’s malnutrition crisis, blending expert testimony (Julian Huxley, J. B....

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