Joy Batchelor Movies

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

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...

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

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.

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

The first British animated Technicolor film.

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...

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...

For centuries, the Murgatroyd family, the Baronets of Ruddigore, have been under a witch's curse — 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...

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...

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

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

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

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