Robert Paynter Movies

Originally intended as an advertising short, this film follows The Elizabethan, a non-stop British Railways service from London to Edinburgh along...

A documentary showing aspects of long-disappeared rural life in Northumberland in 1953.

Light verse and gay music make their own comment on the holidaymakers of the Yorkshire coastline. Between Tees and Humber thousands each year enjoy...

This short, evocative account of the poet's life is set among contemporary scenes of the people of south-west Scotland as they grow from children to...

A fond farewell to London's trams - whose peculiarly endearing qualities were discovered only at the threat of their disappearance.

Politically passionate and one of the first working class reporters at the BBC, Jack Ashley wanted to show the suffering caused by high unemployment...

A random selection of housewives around the UK take a day off from their traditional domestic chores.