Most Viewed From Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films

A BAFTA award nominated film made for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company charting the history of aviation from Daedalus to jets.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Maurice Denham

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

Genre: Animation

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A political satire, the first film made by Halas and Batchelor.

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

Genre: Animation

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

Genre: Animation

Cast: Max Adrian

This a story of a violinist, pianist and cellist as they perform from place-to-place, under very unusual conditions. Every time they play, they...

Genre: Music

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One of a humorous series of films devised to explain in graphic terms the concepts of basic mathematical functions.

Genre: Animation

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Part of Halas and Bachelor's unfinished "Know your Europeans" series by the late John Halas. The film takes an irreverent, funny and - at times...

Genre: Animation

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The Shorts and the Talls just can’t see eye to eye until a mediating fairy arrives to help them make ends meet.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Murray Kash

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

Genre: War

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

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Cast: Maurice Debham

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

Genre: Animation

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Examines in detail Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s painting, 'Netherlandish Proverbs', which illustrates over 100 proverbs and allegorises a whole...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Robert Robinson

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.

Genre: Animation

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Hamilton the elephant is being trained for the circus when he discovers his amazing musical ability; the ringmaster decides to exploit his new-found...

Genre: Animation

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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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joy Batchelor

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...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Harold Berens

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

Genre: Animation

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A short animation based on the Edward Lear poem

Genre: Music

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

Genre: Animation

Cast: Yvonne Gilan