Joy Batchelor Movies

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...

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...

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

Cartoon on the fly nuisance, showing the dangers of food contamination and how the dangers can be minimised by food-protection and cleanliness that...

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...

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...

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...

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

The Baronet of Ruddigore, Sir Despard Murgatroyd, has inherited a family curse which forces him to commit a crime every day — or die in agony....

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...

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

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

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

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

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

The first British animated Technicolor film.

Animated short from Halas and Batchelor encouraging the British public to post early for Christmas.

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

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