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Slum-dwellers in Stepney in the East End of London tell their own stories of poor housing in on-the-spot interviews, unrehearsed and unscripted. Also shows rehousing in new flats.*
A cartoon on the need to collect scrap metals for use in the war production effort.
Shows a trawler out fishing on the Viking Bank. ‘In the thirties we were all in it together,' Grierson said. ‘We could all edit well. We could all write well. There was no part we couldn’t do, even...
The dangers of malnutrition: an analysis of the nation’s diet reveals the appalling lack of public knowledge on elementary points of food value, and the neglect due to misspending and poverty. Interviews...
The development of the London Underground, from the steam trains on the Metropolitan Line in 1883 to the Victoria Line. The film was made for showing on BBC Television to mark the centenary of underground...
A British Transport Films compilation video made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the film unit of the British Transport Commission. All the films were produced by Edgar Anstey.
Following the nationalisation of transport in 1948 the British Transport Commission set up its own in-house film production unit. Launched on 1 May 1949, and led for 25 years by Edgar Anstey - a founding...
Exposes the history of the remote labour camps for the unemployed which were set up and run by successive British governments between 1929 and 1939. David Colledge, a Leeds social historian, acts as the...
Made as a sequel to Edgar Anstey’s film HOUSING PROBLEMS (1935) telling the story of slum clearnaces in London and the construction of new blocks of flats seen as a solution to the housing problem. Just...
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