Edgar Anstey Movies

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...

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.

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.

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

Replacing a century-old rail tunnel at Woodhead, co-ordinated road haulage services in Argyllshire, Whitemoor freight marshalling yeard, Bristol bus...

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...

A journalist chats on the unusual excursions possible from nodal stations on Europe's train networks. Douglas Browne, journalist and traveller, takes...

Three short films from the Fifties, offering an insight into day to day life amongst the beautiful scenery of the Scottish Highlands. 'Heart Is...

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

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

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...

Listen up, apprentices! Learn how to smooth and shape metal – an important wartime skill.

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

The operation of the London Transport central Lost Property Office at Baker Street. Collected in BFI's "London on the Move."

Underlines the importance of waterways as mans of modern transport. Details the way in which the network of waterways covers britain.

Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire,...

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

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

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