Joy Batchelor Movies

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

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

A soon-to-be born baby learns about the kinds of schools he will attending in the years following his birth.

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

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 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...

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...

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

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...

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.

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...

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

A BAFTA award nominated animation looking at the development of oil prospecting techniques since the 19th century.

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...

The first British animated Technicolor film.

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...

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...

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

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