Movies: Joy Batchelor

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption....

For centuries, the Murgatroyd family, the Baronets of Ruddigore, have been under a witch's curse — commit a crime every day, or die in agony. Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd, the rightful heir, has run away to live as innocent peasant Robin Oakapple in the Co...

Modern advice and old-fashioned values combine in this postwar animated health guide from the makers of Animal Farm....

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

A short animated War Office commissioned health education film, showing the fate of each of the 6 jungle soldiers....

The story of three children who find themselves with a friendly monster that grows at an alarming rate....

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 the conflict Halas & Batchelor were commissioned by the British Government to make four cartoons featur...

Animated version of the fairy tale. Tom proves himself cleverer than his brothers when he outwits an ogre and returns home with treasure....

The film is designed to encourage recycling - which was a key part of the war effort....

Instructional cartoon for the Admiralty....

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 and one half of the Halas & Batchelor Cartoons Studio, which made the UKs first animated feature film...

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 who is painted to look like a soldier and used as a figurehead on a sailing ship. The ship sinks and...

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

BBC Four’s new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examines the creative and technical inventiveness of some of the great animation pioneers who have worked in Britain – trailblazing talents such as Len Lye,...

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 children into the cigarette habit. Fourteen-year-old Sam falls into the trap, but after awesome visions of h...

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

A BAFTA award nominated animation tracing the development of the motor car from the original horseless carriage common in the late 19th century to the 1950s streamlined, massed produced, designs....

This World War II propaganda short encourages British people to "dig for victory," by planting vegetable gardens....

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

Popular animated character Charley explains the National Insurance Act, which was legislation that made health insurance available to all British citizens....