John Halas 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...

Asterix and Obelix depart on an adventure to complete twelve impossible tasks to prove to Caesar that they are as strong as the Gods. You'll roar...

The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.

Cartoon proof that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. In this 1940s cinema advert, the tardiness of Signalman Squirrel's breakfast...

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

The first British animated Technicolor film.

The Baronet of Ruddigore, Sir Despard Murgatroyd, has inherited a family curse which forces him to commit a crime every day — or die in agony....

A fully digitized computer-animated film which shows the question whether man will use his inventive abilities for destruction or as the key to...

Instructional cartoon for the Admiralty.

One of a humorous series of films devised to explain in graphic terms the concepts of basic mathematical functions.

An updated version of Halas and Batchelor's short film, 'The Magic Canvas', with a new electronic score.

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

This satirical animated short by the renowned Halas & Batchelor Studio asks the big Question. Can the meaning of life be found in religion or...

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

A BAFTA award nominated film made for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company charting the history of aviation from Daedalus to jets.

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

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...

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

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