Edgar Anstey Movies

Donald Houston plays a Welshman who tells the story of what it's like to live in small town Wales and how the train service helps.

A school journey through the city of London as seen through the eyes of the children and their teacher.

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

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.

Report No. 8 in a series of 13 topical films, produced since the far reaching plan for the modernisation and re-equipment of British Railways in 1955...

Information on the different groups and organizations that are there to help the population during wartime.

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

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."

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...

A British documentary short about nutrition

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

Electrification, and the raiIway men of Rugby adopt new methods and use new machines. In this film they tell in their own words of the great...

Report No. 11 in a series of 13 topical films. Because 1970 was European Conservation Year, this issue of the Rail Report Series was devoted to...

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

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...

The work of a team of men who tackle a special British Road Services job in the treacherous terrain of the Scottish Highlands.

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

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.