Joy Batchelor Movies

This World War II propaganda short encourages British people to "dig for victory," by planting vegetable gardens.

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...

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

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 animation looking at the development of oil prospecting techniques since the 19th century.

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...

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

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.

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

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

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...

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...

Animated version of the fairy tale. Tom proves himself cleverer than his brothers when he outwits an ogre and returns home with treasure.

Instructional cartoon for the Admiralty.

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

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

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

The first British animated Technicolor film.

Popular animated character Charley explains the National Insurance Act, which was legislation that made health insurance available to all British...