Joy Batchelor 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...

This highly entertaining animated film begins as a young girl settles down into bed to sleep after coming home from a party. One of her feet...

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

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

A poem of unrequited love: the studio's first puppet production. Based on a poem by Cosbie Garstin, the film tells the story of a carved wooden saint...

BBC Four’s new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examines the creative and technical inventiveness...

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

Modern advice and old-fashioned values combine in this postwar animated health guide from the makers of Animal Farm.

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

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

Charley, a mechanic, inherits a half-share in a farm run by his cousin and he soon has his dream of an idyllic country life rudely shattered by hard...

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

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...

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

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 candlemaker entrusts his young son with the task of making candles for their church on Christmas Eve.

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

A BAFTA award nominated animation tracing the development of the motor car from the original horseless carriage common in the late 19th century to...

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