John Halas Movies

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...

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

A trip into a surreal winter garden, a voyage on a stormy sea, a grisly homecoming – there is something for everyone in this “experiment...

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...

Hamilton the elephant is being trained for the circus when he discovers his amazing musical ability; the ringmaster decides to exploit his new-found...

Cartoon of chicken's adventures while being chased by woodland animal.

If you haven’t already been diverted by the history of John Gilpin, or would like to venture that way again, you couldn’t find a better...

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 fully digitized computer-animated film which shows the question whether man will use his inventive abilities for destruction or as the key to...

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

Out with the old and in with the new – one of Britain’s leading animation companies pitches its new image with great humour.

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

Instructional cartoon for the Admiralty.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

The first British animated Technicolor film.