John Halas Movies
- 1954

Animal Farm
Animal Farm71954HD
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...
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- 1976

The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
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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...
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- 1981

Heavy Metal
Heavy Metal6.5091981HD
The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.
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- 1946

Train Trouble
Train Trouble01946HD
Cartoon proof that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. In this 1940s cinema advert, the tardiness of Signalman Squirrel's breakfast...
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- 1942

Dustbin Parade
Dustbin Parade01942HD
The film is designed to encourage recycling - which was a key part of the war effort.
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- 1938

Music Man
Music Man01938HD
The first British animated Technicolor film.
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- 1967

Ruddigore
Ruddigore5.51967HD
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....
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- 1981

Dilemma
Dilemma5.71981HD
A fully digitized computer-animated film which shows the question whether man will use his inventive abilities for destruction or as the key to...
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- 1945

Handling Ships
Handling Ships61945HD
Instructional cartoon for the Admiralty.
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- 1969

Topology
Topology01969HD
One of a humorous series of films devised to explain in graphic terms the concepts of basic mathematical functions.
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- 1980

Flying Free
Flying Free01980HD
An updated version of Halas and Batchelor's short film, 'The Magic Canvas', with a new electronic score.
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- 1944

Christmas Wishes
Christmas Wishes01944HD
Animated short from Halas and Batchelor encouraging the British public to post early for Christmas.
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- 1967

The Question
The Question71967HD
This satirical animated short by the renowned Halas & Batchelor Studio asks the big Question. Can the meaning of life be found in religion or...
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- 1961

The Monster of Highgate Ponds
The Monster of Highgate Ponds51961HD
The story of three children who find themselves with a friendly monster that grows at an alarming rate.
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- 1953

Power to Fly
Power to Fly71953HD
A BAFTA award nominated film made for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company charting the history of aviation from Daedalus to jets.
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- 1948

Charley's March of Time
Charley's March of Time61948HD
Popular animated character Charley explains the National Insurance Act, which was legislation that made health insurance available to all British...
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- 1947

Dolly, Put the Kettle On
Dolly, Put the Kettle On51947HD
Joy Batchelor directed, produced, wrote and designed this short film for Brook Bond Tea: two girls compete for the affections of a Teddy Bear.
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- 1964

Automania 2000
Automania 20006.81964HD
An animated, dark satire of America's automobile-obsessed, consumerist culture. An anonymous, brilliant scientist toils tirelessly in his ivory tower...
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- 1964

Midsummer Nightmare
Midsummer Nightmare71964HD
Puck is introduced to the twentieth century and is as amused by the contemporary obsession with television as he was by the lovers' antics.
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- 1959

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