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....

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

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

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

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

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

An animated, dark satire of America's automobile-obsessed, consumerist culture. An anonymous, brilliant scientist toils tirelessly in his ivory tower satisfying the public's ever-increasing demands for novelty and status consciousness, with predictab...

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...

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...

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,...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Instructional cartoon for the Admiralty....

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

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