Joy Batchelor 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...

The story of three children who find themselves with a friendly monster that grows at an alarming rate.

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Instructional cartoon for the Admiralty.

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

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

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

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

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

The first British animated Technicolor film.

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