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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Instructional cartoon for the Admiralty.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

The first British animated Technicolor film.

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

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