Halas And Batchelor Cartoon Films Movies

The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.

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...

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

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...

Cartoon tennis match, with players based on Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe.

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

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

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

A BAFTA award nominated film made for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company charting the history of aviation from Daedalus to jets.

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...

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

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

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....

A humorously semi-factual account of the history of cinema.

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

A project assembled to musically support William Plomer's (1903-73) book of poems called 'The Butterfly Ball and Grasshoppers Feast'; in which Alan...

A lonely man living in a large city buys a life-size sex doll. His relationship with his dream doll causes a certain reaction in the community. A...

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

A BAFTA award winning documentary on the basic principles and applications of hydrostatics.

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