Halas And Batchelor Cartoon Films Movies

This cartoon propaganda short by Halas & Batchelor sweetens the pill of post-war coal prices by promising jam tomorrow.

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 remind...

A humorously semi-factual account of the history of cinema.

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

Set to Gilbert and Sullivan tunes, a musical cartoon attempts to describe the character of the British nation, with occasional interruptions by Prince...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

One of a humorous series of films devised to explain in graphic terms the concepts of basic mathematical functions.

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

Football crazy, football mad. Don’t watch this off-beat jukebox cartoon expecting any conventional soccer action. Equal parts Disney, Dali and Duchamp...

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 rev...

This satirical animated short by the renowned Halas & Batchelor Studio asks the big Question. Can the meaning of life be found in religion or science?...

Cartoon tennis match, with players based on Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe.

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...