Joy Batchelor Movies

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...

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...

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...

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...

Cartoon proof that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. In this 1940s cinema advert, the tardiness of Signalman Squirrel's breakfast...

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.

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

The first British animated Technicolor film.

A BAFTA award nominated animation tracing the development of the motor car from the original horseless carriage common in the late 19th century to...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

In this film Charley demystifies the new state-funded National Health Service, detailing the benefits a free-at-point-of-delivery health service will...

Cartoon of chicken's adventures while being chased by woodland animal.