Movies: Joy Batchelor

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 they cannot avoid corruption....

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

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. Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd, the rightful heir, has run away to live as innocent peasant Robin Oakapple in the Co...

Instructional cartoon for the Admiralty....

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

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

BBC Four’s new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examines the creative and technical inventiveness of some of the great animation pioneers who have worked in Britain – trailblazing talents such as Len Lye,...

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

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 who is painted to look like a soldier and used as a figurehead on a sailing ship. The ship sinks and...

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

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

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 the conflict Halas & Batchelor were commissioned by the British Government to make four cartoons featur...

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

An animated, dark satire of America's automobile-obsessed, consumerist culture. An anonymous, brilliant scientist toils tirelessly in his ivory tower satisfying the public's ever-increasing demands for novelty and status consciousness, with predictab...

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

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

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

Cartoon proof that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. In this 1940s cinema advert, the tardiness of Signalman Squirrel's breakfast brings passengers to the brink of a major rail disaster every day. The solution is not setting his alarm ...

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

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