Edgar Anstey Movies

Snowploughs are readied to rescue a snowbound train - in one of the most popular of all British Transport Films.

Comprising train and track footage quickly shot just before a heavy winter's snowfall was melting, the multi-award-winning classic that emerged from...

Southampton, a deep-water port with four tides a day, is an ocean terminal for the world's largest liners. Their coming and going, and the people who...

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

Scottish Television's film on the 40th Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1986, starring Robbie Coltrane (a former EIFF chauffeur) and...

The Peak District waits invitingly within a sixty-mile reach of half the population of England. To this green centre of a great industrial area, the...

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

The problem of slum dwellings in the 1930s.

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

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...

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...

After the last train at night and before the first in the morning, 800 people are hard at work behind the scenes making London's Underground fit to...

Grierson set out to make "propaganda," and this film--with it's voice-over proclaiming the great value of the British industrial worker, without a...

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

A fond farewell to London's trams - whose peculiarly endearing qualities were discovered only at the threat of their disappearance.

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

Documentary following an Edinburgh fishing trawler, the "Isabella Grieg".

A group of workers from a Leicester shoe-making company travel down south for a day in the Smoke.

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...

Thirty Million Letters is a 1963 short documentary film directed by James Ritchie and made by British Transport Films. It was nominated for an...