Edgar Anstey Movies

As a training exercise for their apprentice camera operators, British Transport Films used surplus roll end length of film to record the daily lives...

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

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

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...

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

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

A short film focusing on the account of a coaching tour told by the driver, who attempts to try to create a happy atmosphere and cement friendships.

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...

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

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

Information on the different groups and organizations that are there to help the population during wartime.

A 200-ton transformer is moved by road from Hayes, Middlesex, to Iver, Bucks. Behind the story of the journey there is another tale: the problems...

A BAFTA award winning documentary focussing on how drivers are trained to drive new electric trains in the UK.

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.

Propaganda film, capturing “the work of the government’s training camps and instructional centres for unemployed men.” - NFA...