Most Viewed From Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and...

The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.

This a story of a violinist, pianist and cellist as they perform from place-to-place, under very unusual conditions. Every time they play, they...

Roger Glover puts on a star-studded concert at the Royal Albert Hall for his concept album "The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast".

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

Instructional cartoon for the Admiralty.

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

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...

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...

Set to Gilbert and Sullivan tunes, a musical cartoon attempts to describe the character of the British nation, with occasional interruptions by...

A humorously semi-factual account of the history of cinema.

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

For centuries, the Murgatroyd family, the Baronets of Ruddigore, have been under a witch's curse — commit a crime every day, or die in agony....

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

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

A project assembled to musically support William Plomer's (1903-73) book of poems called 'The Butterfly Ball and Grasshoppers Feast'; in which Alan...

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

The Shorts and the Talls just can’t see eye to eye until a mediating fairy arrives to help them make ends meet.

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

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