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...

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

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...

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

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

A BAFTA award nominated animation looking at the development of oil prospecting techniques since the 19th century.

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

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

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...

a short Halas & Batchelor animation about the adventures of Bolly and his friends on imaginary planets, featuring animation by Tony Guy, animation...

The Baronet of Ruddigore, Sir Despard Murgatroyd, has inherited a family curse which forces him to commit a crime every day — or die in agony....

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...