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...

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...

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

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

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

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

For centuries, the Murgatroyd family, the Baronets of Ruddigore, have been under a witch's curse — commit a crime every day, or die in agony....

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joy Batchelor directed, produced, wrote and designed this short film for Brook Bond Tea: two girls compete for the affections of a Teddy Bear.

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

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

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...

The cartoon is one of the Marshall Plan's most popular films. A clash between a shoemaker and a hat maker illustrates the contrasts between...

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