Joy Batchelor Movies

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...

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

Instructional cartoon for the Admiralty.

An animated film about the history and use of hot water.

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...

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

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

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...

An animated, dark satire of America's automobile-obsessed, consumerist culture. An anonymous, brilliant scientist toils tirelessly in his ivory tower...

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

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

Hamilton the elephant loves playing music with his trunk. When he is fired from the circus he does odd jobs till he gets his big break.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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