Joy Batchelor Movies

Hamilton the elephant loves playing music with his trunk. When he is fired from the circus he does odd jobs till he gets his big break.

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

Instructional cartoon for the Admiralty.

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

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...

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

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

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

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 World War II propaganda short encourages British people to "dig for victory," by planting vegetable gardens.

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

Ever seen a snake with a moustache? The Middle East was as much an ideological as a physical battleground in the Second World War. In the midst of...

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

Animated version of the fairy tale. Tom proves himself cleverer than his brothers when he outwits an ogre and returns home with treasure.

T'was the night before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

A powerfully graphic piece of animation that best expresses John Halas' own feelings about mans universal quest for freedom.

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...

The first British animated Technicolor film.