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...

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

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

A BAFTA nominated specialized film

A BAFTA award nominated animation looking at the development of oil prospecting techniques since the 19th century.

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....

An introduction to the life and work of Joy Batchelor on the hundredth anniversary of her birth. Joy was a director, animator, producer and designer...

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

a short Halas & Batchelor animation about the adventures of Bolly and his friends on imaginary planets, featuring animation by Tony Guy, animation...

A short animated War Office commissioned health education film, showing the fate of each of the 6 jungle soldiers.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

An animated cartoon on smoking and health. The villain, Old Nick O'Teen, disguises himself as an 18-year-old motorcyclist, the better to lure...