Joy Batchelor Movies

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and...

BBC Four’s new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examines the creative and technical inventiveness...

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

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 animated film about the history and use of hot water.

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

A BAFTA nominated specialized film

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

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

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....

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 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.

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.

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

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

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...

An animated, dark satire of America's automobile-obsessed, consumerist culture. An anonymous, brilliant scientist toils tirelessly in his ivory tower...

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...