Joy Batchelor Filmes

A candlemaker entrusts his young son with the task of making candles for their church on Christmas Eve.

A political satire, the first film made by Halas and Batchelor.

BBC Four’s new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examines the creative and technical inventiveness...

A particularly vicious Father Time with a hit-list in his Book of Doom seeks to wipe out characters brought to life from fabric patterns. This neat...

This cartoon propaganda short by Halas & Batchelor sweetens the pill of post-war coal prices by promising jam tomorrow.

A dancing radio stops partying to transmit an announcement on fuel conservation in this WWII cartoon short.

Ever seen a snake with a moustache? The Middle East was as much an ideological as a physical battleground in the Second World War. In the midst of...

An animated cartoon on smoking and health. The villain, Old Nick O'Teen, disguises himself as an 18-year-old motorcyclist, the better to lure...

A soon-to-be born baby learns about the kinds of schools he will attending in the years following his birth.

Cartoon on the fly nuisance, showing the dangers of food contamination and how the dangers can be minimised by food-protection and cleanliness that...

The cartoon is one of the Marshall Plan's most popular films. A clash between a shoemaker and a hat maker illustrates the contrasts between...

First Line of Defence is a short cartoon recruitment film for the RAF created in 1949 by animation duo Halas and Batchelor. The story follows a...

A colorful cartoon commercial for soap flakes seems the last place that the realities of wartime life should creep in. A clothes cupboard opens to...

A poem of unrequited love: the studio's first puppet production. Based on a poem by Cosbie Garstin, the film tells the story of a carved wooden saint...

Cartoon of chicken's adventures while being chased by woodland animal.

T'was the night before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

This highly entertaining animated film begins as a young girl settles down into bed to sleep after coming home from a party. One of her feet...

An introduction to the life and work of Joy Batchelor on the hundredth anniversary of her birth. Joy was a director, animator, producer and designer...

A BAFTA award nominated animation looking at the development of oil prospecting techniques since the 19th century.