Movies: Edgar Anstey

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....

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

Journey into Spring is a 1958 British short documentary film directed by Ralph Keene, and made by British Transport Films. The film -- partly a tribute to the work of the pioneering naturalist and ornithologist Gilbert White (1720-1793), author of Th...

Blue Pullman is a 1960 short documentary film directed by James Ritchie, which follows the development, preparation and a journey from Manchester to London on new British Railways Blue Pullman units. As with earlier British Transport Films, many of t...

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

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 first of the National Parks, holidaymakers come throughout the year to enjoy a wide variety of scener...

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

“Promotes trade with Britain among other countries in the European Community after the UK's entry on 1st January 1973. Kelloggs is given as an example of how major British companies worked at this period.” - Robin Carmody....

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 alongside some excellent archive film....

Sets out to persuade businesspeople of the advantages of going from city to city by train. How it gives them time to relax, work or sleep in comfort....

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

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 Rail was keen to transmit during the early part of the 1970s. It marked the start of the age of the ...

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

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."...

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

A school journey through the city of London as seen through the eyes of the children and their teacher....

Comprising train and track footage quickly shot just before a heavy winter's snowfall was melting, the multi-award-winning classic that emerged from the cutting-room compresses British Rail's dedication to blizzard-battling into a thrilling eight-min...

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 work with them are the subject of this film as they reflect in their personal lives some of the dram...

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

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