John Halas Movies

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

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

Out with the old and in with the new – one of Britain’s leading animation companies pitches its new image with great humour.

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

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

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

Married to your television? This cartoon gives you an opportunity to re-evaluate your relationship with the gogglebox.

Popular animated character Charley explains the National Insurance Act, which was legislation that made health insurance available to all British...

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...

Documents the life and influence of the Bahaus artist, László Moholy-Nagy.

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

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...

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 humorous introduction to problem analysis and programming.

Everyone knows that petroleum comes out of the earth, but the question is how did it get there, and what is it made of? The answer to these questions...

Hamilton the elephant is being trained for the circus when he discovers his amazing musical ability; the ringmaster decides to exploit his new-found...

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

This a story of a violinist, pianist and cellist as they perform from place-to-place, under very unusual conditions. Every time they play, they...

A short animation based on the Edward Lear poem