Joy Batchelor Movies

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

Charley, a mechanic, inherits a half-share in a farm run by his cousin and he soon has his dream of an idyllic country life rudely shattered by hard...

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...

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

An introduction to the life and work of Joy Batchelor on the hundredth anniversary of her birth. Joy was a director, animator, producer and designer...

A dancing radio stops partying to transmit an announcement on fuel conservation in this WWII cartoon short.

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

The first British animated Technicolor film.

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

A BAFTA award nominated animation tracing the development of the motor car from the original horseless carriage common in the late 19th century to...