Movies: Joy Batchelor

A soon-to-be born baby learns about the kinds of schools he will attending in the years following his birth....

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....

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

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

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

An animated cartoon on smoking and health. The villain, Old Nick O'Teen, disguises himself as an 18-year-old motorcyclist, the better to lure children into the cigarette habit. Fourteen-year-old Sam falls into the trap, but after awesome visions of h...

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

Charley, a mechanic, inherits a half-share in a farm run by his cousin and he soon has his dream of an idyllic country life rudely shattered by hard realities....

The cartoon is one of the Marshall Plan's most popular films. A clash between a shoemaker and a hat maker illustrates the contrasts between protectionism and free trade. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2003....

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 and one half of the Halas & Batchelor Cartoons Studio, which made the UKs first animated feature film...

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 protrudes from under the bed cover and the toes come alive and discuss how painful they are after being cramp...

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

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 concept for a cartoon washing powder commercial can be credited to Alexander Mackendrick, who worked a...

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 trainee pilot dreaming about the history of flight....

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 reveal a fantasy world where figures on fabric patterns come to life, and a neglected clown is shunned ...

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

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

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