John Halas Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

A documentary essay about the unsung animation visionary, John Halas. An Animated Utopia explores his desire "to save the world using animation" and...

A humorous introduction to problem analysis and programming.

The first British animated Technicolor film.

Cartoon set to songs from The Moody Blues' titular album.

Documents the life and influence of the Bahaus artist, László Moholy-Nagy.

A musically talented ape is captured in the jungle and taken back to civilisation. However, civilisation proves too uncouth for the cultured ape so...

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

The Maestro brings a world of emotions to life interpreted by the orchestra and the animation.

Animated satire of business practices

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...

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

A colorful cartoon commercial for soap flakes seems the last place that the realities of wartime life should creep in. A clothes cupboard opens to...

A short animation based on the Edward Lear poem

An animated cartoon of drawings by young children, who imagine the motor car of today and of the future.

Hello darkness my old friend. The four-part “experiment in word, music and paintings” that was made by the BFI for the 1951 Festival of...