Edgar Anstey Movies

A romantic overview of England in the Elizabethan Age.

Light verse and gay music make their own comment on the holidaymakers of the Yorkshire coastline. Between Tees and Humber thousands each year enjoy...

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

The history of the BRS (British Road Services), the general haulage network of the UK. Part of BFI collection "Points and Aspects."

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

A look at everyday life in the crofting community of Achriesgill in Sutherland.

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...

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

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

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...

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