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...

An animated film about the history and use of hot water.

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...

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

A BAFTA nominated specialized film

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Modern advice and old-fashioned values combine in this postwar animated health guide from the makers of Animal Farm.

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.

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...

a short Halas & Batchelor animation about the adventures of Bolly and his friends on imaginary planets, featuring animation by Tony Guy, animation...