Edgar Anstey Movies

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.

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 documentary showing aspects of long-disappeared rural life in Northumberland in 1953.

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 fond farewell to London's trams - whose peculiarly endearing qualities were discovered only at the threat of their disappearance.

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

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

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

A compilation film about the complex railway systems of Great Britain, demonstrating the work and individual responsibilities of many departments.

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...

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

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 version of Dr. Richard Beeching's plan for the re-shaping of British Railways, showing some of the problems involved, the research...

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

The film is designed to encourage recycling - which was a key part of the war effort.

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

A short documentary.