Vera Linnecar Movies

A tourist travelling through Morocco discovers an ancient curse and must choose between light and dark.

Joy Batchelor directed, produced, wrote and designed this short film for Brook Bond Tea: two girls compete for the affections of a Teddy Bear.

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

Unbeknownst to the Spencer Davis Group, their manager is upper class, grew up in a haunted manor, and is called Algernon. When they visit his home,...

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

The story of married animators, John Halas and Joy Batchelor. A Jewish emigre from Hungary and a working class woman from Watford, England, John and...

A BAFTA award nominated animated Industrial safety film featuring a clumsy fruit porter who learns the error of his ways, told as a mini-operetta.

A surreal mix of advertising tropes from the 1960s is very funny but has a neat anti-capitalist undertow.

Meet Charley, your jovial cartoon guide to Britain’s changing towns and cities.

An animated short that summarizes the manufacture of steel and a humorous look at a world without it.

Are you a dog or a cat person? If you favour the felines then this animated meditation on cats of all shapes and sizes is for you. The film grew out...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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