Joy Batchelor Movies

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...

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

An animated, dark satire of America's automobile-obsessed, consumerist culture. An anonymous, brilliant scientist toils tirelessly in his ivory tower...

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...

Instructional cartoon for the Admiralty.

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....

BBC Four’s new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examines the creative and technical inventiveness...

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

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...

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

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...

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.

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

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.