b. 1907 d. 1987

Best known as one half of the team that brought Housing Problems to the world, Anstey's work within the British film industry was both prolific and significant. Recruited to establish the Shell Film Unit in 1934, he had already worked with Grierson at the Empire Marketing Board Film Unit, editing Robert Flaherty's Industrial Britain. He left Shell to work with Arthur Elton on the seminal Housing Problems - the film that shaped so much of television documentary in Britain - as well as Enough to Eat? Spells working for March of Time, and the Ministry of Information during the war, were followed by the creation in 1949 of British Transport Films and a career as a dignitary of British cinema. While at BTF, he fostered emerging talent and won numerous awards, including an Oscar and the Golden Lion at Venice.