Most Viewed From Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films

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

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

An animated visual interpretation of the song "Autobahn," by German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk. A fast-paced experimental film which proved to be...

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

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

A BAFTA award nominated film made for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company charting the history of aviation from Daedalus to jets.

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 political satire, the first film made by Halas and Batchelor.

One of a humorous series of films devised to explain in graphic terms the concepts of basic mathematical functions.

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

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

A naïve father makes an embarrassing attempt to explain the facts of life to his son, but he becomes increasingly embarrassed to the point where...

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

A lonely man living in a large city buys a life-size sex doll. His relationship with his dream doll causes a certain reaction in the community. A...

Married to your television? This cartoon gives you an opportunity to re-evaluate your relationship with the gogglebox.

This satirical animated short by the renowned Halas & Batchelor Studio asks the big Question. Can the meaning of life be found in religion or...

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...

This cartoon propaganda short by Halas & Batchelor sweetens the pill of post-war coal prices by promising jam tomorrow.

Part of Halas and Bachelor's unfinished "Know your Europeans" series by the late John Halas. The film takes an irreverent, funny and - at times...