Edgar Anstey Movies

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

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...

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

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 British documentary short about nutrition

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

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

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...

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

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

The Yorkshire Dales - 'from which no traveller wishes to return'. Sheltering under the Pennines, the Dales have escaped the human ravages of time....

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...

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.

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...

SELNEC is the largest public transport system in Britain, outside London, covering South East Lancashire and North East Cheshire. The film shows some...

Behind Britain's railway modernisation lies research, design and development. Research ensures in various ways that passengers travel fast, safely...

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

This short, evocative account of the poet's life is set among contemporary scenes of the people of south-west Scotland as they grow from children to...