Edgar Anstey Movies

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

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

A documentary looking at a day at Croydon Airport south of London.

'Water', says the transport man, 'is lovely stuff' - and the development plan for British Waterways is based on this belief. The film shows parts 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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

The Cotswolds are the largest areas of Britain, stretching over a hundred miles from Chipping Camden to the city of Bath.

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

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

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

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

The transporting of a distillation colurm, 137 feet long, 500 miles by road from Greenwich to Grangemouth in Scotland. The commentary, spoken by the...

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

When a business tycoon allows himself to be 'snared' into seeing some films in a railway traffic manager's office, there must be a reason for it. In...