Edgar Anstey Movies

A British documentary on tunneling if a building falls in ruins.

A young Eskimo boy accidentally gets hit by a mysterious ray during a secret British experiment and finds that he is now electrified.

A short documentary.

A documentary showing aspects of long-disappeared rural life in Northumberland in 1953.

Coach passengers give their reasons for preferring that type of transport. A group of ramblers visit the Welsh mountains; an angler and his family...

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

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...

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

A documentary examining the modernization of Britain’s railways through large-scale engineering and infrastructure renewal.

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

Originally intended as an advertising short, this film follows The Elizabethan, a non-stop British Railways service from London to Edinburgh along...

The work of a team of men who tackle a special British Road Services job in the treacherous terrain of the Scottish Highlands.

Captures the consumption of gas by various large kitchens in London, during a particular dinner hour.

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...

Developed from John Grierson's opportunistic recruitment of the well-known director and anthropologist Robert Flaherty, Industrial Britain provides a...

The film version of Dr. Richard Beeching's plan for the re-shaping of British Railways, showing some of the problems involved, the research...

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

‘St Christopher’s - for the children of Railway Servants’. About a hundred children are cared for at this Derby railway orphanage...

Replacing a century-old rail tunnel at Woodhead, co-ordinated road haulage services in Argyllshire, Whitemoor freight marshalling yeard, Bristol bus...

Edgar Anstey and Arthur Elton’s sponsored documentary on Britain’s malnutrition crisis, blending expert testimony (Julian Huxley, J. B....