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Fifth release in the BTF re-mastered transport films archive. This collection veers away from the rail travel milieu and into that of road, rail and sea transport. These public information films did their earnest best to present a picture of the utmost modernity and of a country whose future was inextricably linked with transport. No matter what the ends may have been, the means was transport! Films in this collection include 'Ocean Terminal (1952)', 'Dodging The Column (1952)', 'Link Span (1956)', 'Every Valley (1957)', 'Journey Into Spring (1957)', 'Betweeen The Tides (1958)' 'Giant Load (1958)', 'They Take The High Road (1960)', 'Wild Highlands (1961)', 'Wild Wings (1965)', 'An Artist Looks At Churches (1959)', 'Railways Forever (1970)', 'The Scene From Melbury House (1972)', 'Age Of Invention (1975)' and 'Seaspeed Express (1980)'.

Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play.  Following the nationalisation of transport in 1948, the British Transport Commission set up its own in-house film production unit. Launched on 1st May, 1949, and led for 25 years by Edgar Anstey OBE a founding father of the British documentary movement it became one of the largest industrial film units in Britain. All these films are now preserved in the bfi National Film and Television Archive. This selection has been digitally remastered for this two-disc set, which is a 'must' not for the documentary aficionado who will recognise traits and innovations in British non-fiction filmmaking.