Halas And Batchelor Cartoon Films Movies

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

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

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

Joy Batchelor directed, produced, wrote and designed this short film for Brook Bond Tea: two girls compete for the affections of a Teddy Bear.

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

Examines in detail Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s painting, 'Netherlandish Proverbs', which illustrates over 100 proverbs and allegorises a whole world of...

Instructional cartoon for the Admiralty.

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

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

The Shorts and the Talls just can’t see eye to eye until a mediating fairy arrives to help them make ends meet.

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

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 rev...

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

A naïve father makes an embarrassing attempt to explain the facts of life to his son, but he becomes increasingly embarrassed to the point where his e...

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

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

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

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

One of a humorous series of films devised to explain in graphic terms the concepts of basic mathematical functions.