Edgar Anstey Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 short documentary.

A tour of East Anglia, with its waterways and low-lying country.

There have been railways in this country for over three hundred years. In the nineteenth century, railways spread across Britain and changed the...

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 film about one of the most responsible and professional jobs on British Railways. Practical work in shop and signal box, on gantry and trackside,...

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

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.

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

The Yorkshire Dales - 'from which no traveller wishes to return'. Sheltering under the Pennines, the Dales have escaped the human ravages of time....

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

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 original LCC project for the replanning and building of London explained by two architects responsible for the plan, Sir Patrick Abercrombie and...

The people of the Scottish Highlands live in small communities set in landscapes of unsurpassed beauty.