Joy Batchelor Movies

In this film Charley demystifies the new state-funded National Health Service, detailing the benefits a free-at-point-of-delivery health service will...

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

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...

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

No man is an island, but Charley represents his nation in this economical cartoon tale of Britain’s economics.

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...

Puck is introduced to the twentieth century and is as amused by the contemporary obsession with television as he was by the lovers' antics.

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...

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

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

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...

The first British animated Technicolor film.

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

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

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 BAFTA award nominated animation tracing the development of the motor car from the original horseless carriage common in the late 19th century to...

Charley, a mechanic, inherits a half-share in a farm run by his cousin and he soon has his dream of an idyllic country life rudely shattered by hard...

Instructional cartoon for the Admiralty.

A powerfully graphic piece of animation that best expresses John Halas' own feelings about mans universal quest for freedom.