Edgar Anstey Movies

A freight train travelling between Kirkby and Barnard Castle has become snowbound in the Westmoreland hills. The Motive Power, Operating and...

A short documentary.

A look at the 1953 transport infrastructure of York.

A romantic overview of England in the Elizabethan Age.

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...

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

How the London Transport Board, with the aid of modern technology, is tackling the problems brought about by an ever increasing volume of traffic....

The people of the Scottish Highlands live in small communities set in landscapes of unsurpassed beauty.

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

Britain operates the most experienced diesel and electric railway in tne world. A century and a half ago she invented the steam engine and introduced...

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

The story of a journey from the Yorkshire Dales to Switzerland via Dover and France, made by a party of schoolgirls showing how British rail...

A light and somewhat satirical look at the problems and pleasures of Continental holiday travel. A passenger on the Hook Continental Express from...

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

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

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

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

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

In the cities of Britain we can travel in time as well as space. This film chooses the England of Hogarth, Gainsborough, Robert Adam and Captain...