Edgar Anstey

Open Door: The Other Cinema

Stephen Dwoskin

Stephen Dwoskin, Nicky Hamlyn

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

Enough to Eat?

Arthur Elton, Edgar Anstey

Gowland Hopkins, Julian Huxley

A British documentary short about nutrition

The Scene from Melbury House

Edgar Anstey

As a training exercise for their apprentice camera operators, British Transport Films used surplus roll end length of film to record the daily lives of their neighbours from the roof of their building Melbury House.

Hooray For Holyrood

Ross Wilson

Robbie Coltrane, Edgar Anstey

Scottish Television's film on the 40th Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1986, starring Robbie Coltrane (a former EIFF chauffeur) and featuring interviews with Bill Forsyth, Samuel Fuller and Barry Norman, among many others.

Housing Problems

Arthur Elton, Edgar Anstey

Mrs. Reddington

The problem of slum dwellings in the 1930s.

Granton Trawler

Edgar Anstey, John Grierson

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

Reshaping British Railways

Edgar Anstey

John Stockbridge

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

6.30 Collection

Harry Watt, Edgar Anstey

Short documentary showing the workings of a large London sorting office.