Joy Batchelor Movies

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

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

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...

Instructional cartoon for the Admiralty.

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, dark satire of America's automobile-obsessed, consumerist culture. An anonymous, brilliant scientist toils tirelessly in his ivory tower...

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...

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

The first British animated Technicolor film.

Cartoon proof that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. In this 1940s cinema advert, the tardiness of Signalman Squirrel's breakfast...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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