John Halas Movies

The first British animated Technicolor film.

Cartoon on the fly nuisance, showing the dangers of food contamination and how the dangers can be minimised by food-protection and cleanliness that...

A classical music performance descends into comedic chaos.

If you haven’t already been diverted by the history of John Gilpin, or would like to venture that way again, you couldn’t find a better...

A humorous introduction to problem analysis and programming.

Out with the old and in with the new – one of Britain’s leading animation companies pitches its new image with great humour.

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...

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

A naïve father makes an embarrassing attempt to explain the facts of life to his son, but he becomes increasingly embarrassed to the point where...

Everyone knows that petroleum comes out of the earth, but the question is how did it get there, and what is it made of? The answer to these questions...

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

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

Animated satire of business practices

Hamilton the elephant is being trained for the circus when he discovers his amazing musical ability; the ringmaster decides to exploit his new-found...

Feature-length instructional cartoon made for the Home Office and the Fire Brigade.

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

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

A young girl rescues a wild bird. She takes it back to the forest, then finds crystals in the mountain...

A documentary about John Halas, the Hungarian-Jewish emigre who became the father of British Animation. John is a key figure in British cinema and...