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...

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

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....

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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.

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

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