Edgar Anstey Movies

The holiday attractions of the Lancashire coast, including a beauty contest in Morecambe, Southport flower show and Blackpool Fun Fair.

Three short films from the Fifties, offering an insight into day to day life amongst the beautiful scenery of the Scottish Highlands. 'Heart Is...

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."

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

A journalist chats on the unusual excursions possible from nodal stations on Europe's train networks. Douglas Browne, journalist and traveller, takes...

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

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

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

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

Lively holiday in Blackpool, with jazz accompaniment.

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...

'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...

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...

The original LCC project for the replanning and building of London explained by two architects responsible for the plan, Sir Patrick Abercrombie and...

The operation of the London Transport central Lost Property Office at Baker Street. Collected in BFI's "London on the Move."

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 day in the life of London and the Home Counties in 1962, seen from the perspective of the use of London Transport facilities from buses and tubes...

A look at the 1953 transport infrastructure of York.

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.

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...