Edgar Anstey Movies

The problem of slum dwellings in the 1930s.

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

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...

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

Captures the consumption of gas by various large kitchens in London, during a particular dinner hour.

Two keen hostelling youths, Ken Moody and Brian Cotton, convert a boat in their native Selby into a youth hostel, and get the chance to air their...

A young Eskimo boy accidentally gets hit by a mysterious ray during a secret British experiment and finds that he is now electrified.

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...

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

Two visitors enjoying Scotland, an enthusiastic but inexperienced golfer improving on the world's greatest courses; his wife exploring spectacular...

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

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 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.

Twenty-four hours in the story of the British Railways Channel ferryboats, the 'link spans' directly joining the roads and railways of Britain with...

An Englishman has just got off the train at St. Enoch Station and is asking a cab driver to show him around Glasgow. Naturally, the cab driver is...

Intended as a sales tool for manufacturers, this short film details the production installation and maintenance for long welded track in use on...

One of four wartime farming films showing the four seasons in 1941 and 1942, Winter on the Farm was made at Upton Manor Farm, Uploders, Dorset, and ...

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...