Joy Batchelor Movies

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 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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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.

Cartoon on the fly nuisance, showing the dangers of food contamination and how the dangers can be minimised by food-protection and cleanliness that...

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.

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...

Animated short from Halas and Batchelor encouraging the British public to post early for Christmas.

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

An introduction to the life and work of Joy Batchelor on the hundredth anniversary of her birth. Joy was a director, animator, producer and designer...

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

A feature length instructional video for the Admiralty on coastal navigation and pilotage.

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