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Edgar Anstey OBE (16 February 1907 – 26 September 1987), was a leading British documentary filmmaker. Anstey was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, England in 1907, and was educated at Watford Grammar School for Boys and Birkbeck College.
BFI Screenonline: Anstey, Edgar (1907-1987) Biography. Most standard works on documentary and on British film history mention Edgar Anstey in connection with Housing Problems, the seminal 1935 'social problem' film, which he co-directed with Arthur Elton. It remains important - and is still jolting when seen on the big screen.
Dr. Edgar Anstey. Dr. Edgar Anstey (5 March 1917 – 1 June 2009) was a British Civil Service psychologist who worked for the Ministry of Defence and who is most noted for his incidental role during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
I remember Hurcombe, when I first met him, er - said: Mr. Anstey, I don't care what films you make or how many films you make, as long as they are good films. He said. Which was the most wonderful brief (LAUGHTER) ...
Nov 25, 2019 · HOUSING PROBLEMS, Edgar Anstey and Arthur Elton, UK 1935 (1432)" The 1930s saw the emergence of the British documentary as a distinct mode of film practice that strove for a cinema that, in opposition to the entertainment-focused mainstream, was socially purposeful and aesthetically innovative.
Edgar Anstey Biography (1907-1987) Full name, Edgar Harold MacFarlane Anstey; born February 16, 1907, in Watford, England; died in London, September 26, 1987. Edgar Anstey was considered apioneer of the documentary.
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Documentary producer Edgar Anstey was one of the pioneers of the British documentary movement. His mentor was famed documentarian John Grierson at the Empire Marketing Board Film Unit, for which he made Uncharted Waters (1933) and Granton Trawler (1934), among others.
