Edgar Anstey Movies

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

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

The holiday attractions of the Lancashire coast, including a beauty contest in Morecambe, Southport flower show and Blackpool Fun Fair.

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...

Impressions of a great city from daybreak to dusk. A roving camera and smooth theme music say more than words. London's traditional sights -...

Whether it is a paddle in the sea or a visit to some Roman remains, a day spent watching the countryside go by or an afternoon's inspection of a...

A film looking at the first 100 years of the Underground Railway in London from 1863 to 1963. A range of well known people and senior managers speak...

Blue Pullman is a 1960 short documentary film directed by James Ritchie, which follows the development, preparation and a journey from Manchester to...

A cheerful and very colourful pastiche of live action with combined graphics set to the music of Muir Mathieson. This film typifies the image British...

A romantic overview of England in the Elizabethan Age.

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...

This fly on the wall-style documentary from 1961 won an Oscar for best documentary, and shows the changing patterns of human emotions during 24 hours...

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

A light and somewhat satirical look at the problems and pleasures of Continental holiday travel. A passenger on the Hook Continental Express from...

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

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

A poet's eulogy to his beloved mode of transport.

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

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

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.