John Halas Movies

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

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

A short animation based on the Edward Lear poem

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...

A feature length instructional video for the Admiralty on coastal navigation and pilotage.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Hello darkness my old friend. The four-part “experiment in word, music and paintings” that was made by the BFI for the 1951 Festival of...

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

An updated version of Halas and Batchelor's short film, 'The Magic Canvas', with a new electronic score.

First Line of Defence is a short cartoon recruitment film for the RAF created in 1949 by animation duo Halas and Batchelor. The story follows a...

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

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