Edgar Anstey Movies

Documentary following an Edinburgh fishing trawler, the "Isabella Grieg".

Grierson set out to make "propaganda," and this film--with it's voice-over proclaiming the great value of the British industrial worker, without a...

Southampton, a deep-water port with four tides a day, is an ocean terminal for the world's largest liners. Their coming and going, and the people who...

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...

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

Avant-garde appeal on behalf of and made by the adventurous leftist London cinema, The Other Cinema, using the facilities provided by the BBC...

The problem of slum dwellings in the 1930s.

Snowploughs are readied to rescue a snowbound train - in one of the most popular of all British Transport Films.

Lively holiday in Blackpool, with jazz accompaniment.

The Cotswolds are the largest areas of Britain, stretching over a hundred miles from Chipping Camden to the city of Bath.

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.

The transporting of a distillation colurm, 137 feet long, 500 miles by road from Greenwich to Grangemouth in Scotland. The commentary, spoken by the...

Originally intended as an advertising short, this film follows The Elizabethan, a non-stop British Railways service from London to Edinburgh along...

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

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

The Peak District waits invitingly within a sixty-mile reach of half the population of England. To this green centre of a great industrial area, the...

Scottish Television's film on the 40th Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1986, starring Robbie Coltrane (a former EIFF chauffeur) and...

The flora and fauna of the Scottish highlands, including footage of ospreys, and stags in Argyle.

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

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