Joy Batchelor Movies

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

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...

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

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.

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 colorful cartoon commercial for soap flakes seems the last place that the realities of wartime life should creep in. A clothes cupboard opens to...

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

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 introduction to the life and work of Joy Batchelor on the hundredth anniversary of her birth. Joy was a director, animator, producer and designer...