John Halas Movies

Cartoon on the fly nuisance, showing the dangers of food contamination and how the dangers can be minimised by food-protection and cleanliness that...

Hello darkness my old friend. The four-part “experiment in word, music and paintings” that was made by the BFI for the 1951 Festival of...

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...

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.

The first British animated Technicolor film.

A humorous introduction to problem analysis and programming.

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...

A feature length instructional video for the Admiralty on coastal navigation and pilotage.

First Line of Defence is a short cartoon recruitment film for the RAF created in 1949 by animation duo Halas and Batchelor. The story follows a...

A musically talented ape is captured in the jungle and taken back to civilisation. However, civilisation proves too uncouth for the cultured ape so...

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

An updated version of Halas and Batchelor's short film, 'The Magic Canvas', with a new electronic score.

An animated cartoon of drawings by young children, who imagine the motor car of today and of the future.

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...

The Maestro brings a world of emotions to life interpreted by the orchestra and the animation.

Documents the life and influence of the Bahaus artist, László Moholy-Nagy.