John Halas Movies

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...

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

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...

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

Examines in detail Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s painting, 'Netherlandish Proverbs', which illustrates over 100 proverbs and allegorises a whole...

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

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

A soon-to-be born baby learns about the kinds of schools he will attending in the years following his birth.

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

Everyone knows that petroleum comes out of the earth, but the question is how did it get there, and what is it made of? The answer to these questions...

Instructional cartoon for the Admiralty.

A BAFTA award nominated film made for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company charting the history of aviation from Daedalus to jets.

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.

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...

An animated cartoon of drawings by young children, who imagine the motor car of today and of the future.

The first British animated Technicolor film.

Joy Batchelor directed, produced, wrote and designed this short film for Brook Bond Tea: two girls compete for the affections of a Teddy Bear.

A political satire, the first film made by Halas and Batchelor.

This a story of a violinist, pianist and cellist as they perform from place-to-place, under very unusual conditions. Every time they play, they...