Vera Linnecar Movies

Shows the improved services and other benefits that oil brings to the backward territories. The financial and technical resources of foreign lands...

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

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,...

A BAFTA award nominated animation advertising "Time" magazine.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

A BAFTA award nominated animation about the development and achievements in telecommunications by the Philips Company.

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

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

Meet Mildred. A delightfully dotty older lady who’s carefree attitude means you need to be careful around her. Not the most obvious route into...

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

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...