Most Viewed From Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films

Asterix and Obelix depart on an adventure to complete twelve impossible tasks to prove to Caesar that they are as strong as the Gods. You'll roar...

Genre: Family

Cast: Roger Carel

The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Rodger Bumpass

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...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Gordon Heath

An androgynous person is climbing up a swaying tower of humans who hang in the air. Many drop into a sea of flies below them. The flies pick at their...

Genre: Animation

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An animated visual interpretation of the song "Autobahn," by German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk. A fast-paced experimental film which proved to be...

Genre: Music

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

Genre: Animation

Cast: Max Adrian

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...

Genre: Animation

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Instructional cartoon for the Admiralty.

Genre: Documentary

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A humorously semi-factual account of the history of cinema.

Genre: History

Cast: Maurice Denham

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

Genre: Animation

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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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Robert Beatty

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

Genre: Animation

Cast: Harold Berens

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....

Genre: Animation

Cast: John Reed

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

Genre: Animation

Cast: Harold Berens

Roger Glover puts on a star-studded concert at the Royal Albert Hall for his concept album "The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast".

Genre: Music

Cast: Roger Glover

A project assembled to musically support William Plomer's (1903-73) book of poems called 'The Butterfly Ball and Grasshoppers Feast'; in which Alan...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Ronnie James Dio

A lonely man living in a large city buys a life-size sex doll. His relationship with his dream doll causes a certain reaction in the community. A...

Genre: Animation

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

Genre: Animation

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

Genre: Animation

Cast: Jack Train

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

Genre: Animation

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