John Halas Movies

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...

Set to Gilbert and Sullivan tunes, a musical cartoon attempts to describe the character of the British nation, with occasional interruptions by...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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 humorously semi-factual account of the history of cinema.

Cartoon tennis match, with players based on Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe.

Feature-length instructional cartoon made for the Home Office and the Fire Brigade.

A naïve father makes an embarrassing attempt to explain the facts of life to his son, but he becomes increasingly embarrassed to the point where...

Everyone knows that petroleum comes out of the earth, but the question is how did it get there, and what is it made of? The answer to these questions...

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

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

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

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

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...

If you haven’t already been diverted by the history of John Gilpin, or would like to venture that way again, you couldn’t find a better...