Edgar Anstey Movies

A look at the 1953 transport infrastructure of York.

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

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...

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...

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.

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

Exploration of the Slimbridge Wild Fowl Trust in Gloucestershire, England, which boasts the largest collection of living wild fowl in the world.

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

A look at the transport system in the South Wales Valleys and how it effects peoples livelihoods and everyday lives.

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...

A random selection of housewives around the UK take a day off from their traditional domestic chores.

Blue Pullman is a 1960 short documentary film directed by James Ritchie, which follows the development, preparation and a journey from Manchester to...

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

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 flora and fauna of the Scottish highlands, including footage of ospreys, and stags in Argyle.

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

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...

On the shortest journey you pass a church or two. Out of the 20,000 churches in Britain, the artist, John Piper, whose work contributes to the glory...

A film looking at the first 100 years of the Underground Railway in London from 1863 to 1963. A range of well known people and senior managers speak...

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