Movies: Joy Batchelor

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 protectionism and free trade. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2003....

A feature length instructional video for the Admiralty on coastal navigation and pilotage....

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 realities....

Animated short from Halas and Batchelor encouraging the British public to post early for Christmas....

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

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...

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

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....

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

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....

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 trainee pilot dreaming about the history of flight....

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

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

A particularly vicious Father Time with a hit-list in his Book of Doom seeks to wipe out characters brought to life from fabric patterns. This neat concept for a cartoon washing powder commercial can be credited to Alexander Mackendrick, who worked a...

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...

This highly entertaining animated film begins as a young girl settles down into bed to sleep after coming home from a party. One of her feet protrudes from under the bed cover and the toes come alive and discuss how painful they are after being cramp...

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

Cartoon on the fly nuisance, showing the dangers of food contamination and how the dangers can be minimised by food-protection and cleanliness that was produced in the UK for the Ministry of Health....

A political satire, the first film made by Halas and Batchelor....