Halas And Batchelor Cartoon Films Movies

  • 1976
    The Twelve Tasks of Asterix

    The Twelve Tasks of Asterix

    The Twelve Tasks of Asterix

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    Asterix and Obelix depart on an adventure to complete twelve impossible tasks to prove to Caesar that they are as strong as the Gods. You'll roar...

    The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
  • 1954
    Animal Farm

    Animal Farm

    Animal Farm

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    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...

    Animal Farm
  • 1945
    6 Little Jungle Boys

    6 Little Jungle Boys

    6 Little Jungle Boys

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

    6 Little Jungle Boys
  • 1971
    Football Freaks

    Football Freaks

    Football Freaks

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    Football crazy, football mad. Don’t watch this off-beat jukebox cartoon expecting any conventional soccer action. Equal parts Disney, Dali and...

    Football Freaks
  • 1961
    The Monster of Highgate Ponds

    The Monster of Highgate Ponds

    The Monster of Highgate Ponds

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    The story of three children who find themselves with a friendly monster that grows at an alarming rate.

    The Monster of Highgate Ponds
  • 1968
    Bolly in A Space Adventure

    Bolly in A Space Adventure

    Bolly in A Space Adventure

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    a short Halas & Batchelor animation about the adventures of Bolly and his friends on imaginary planets, featuring animation by Tony Guy, animation...

    Bolly in A Space Adventure
  • 1965
    The Hoffnung Palm Court Orchestra

    The Hoffnung Palm Court Orchestra

    The Hoffnung Palm Court Orchestra

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    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...

    The Hoffnung Palm Court Orchestra
  • 1965
    The Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra

    The Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra

    The Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra

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    A light hearted look at the various instruments of the orchestra, based on the original cartoons of the late Gerard Hoffnung, satirising musical...

    The Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra
  • 1954
    Down a Long Way

    Down a Long Way

    Down a Long Way

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

    Down a Long Way
  • 1974
    The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast

    The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast

    The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast

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

    The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast
  • 1994
    Know Your Europeans: The United Kingdom

    Know Your Europeans: The United Kingdom

    Know Your Europeans: The United Kingdom

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

    Know Your Europeans: The United Kingdom
  • 1963
    The Axe and the Lamp

    The Axe and the Lamp

    The Axe and the Lamp

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    Examines in detail Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s painting, 'Netherlandish Proverbs', which illustrates over 100 proverbs and allegorises a whole...

    The Axe and the Lamp
  • 1959
    HaBa Tales: The Cultured Ape

    HaBa Tales: The Cultured Ape

    HaBa Tales: The Cultured Ape

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    A musically talented ape is captured in the jungle and taken back to civilisation. However, civilisation proves too uncouth for the cultured ape so...

    HaBa Tales: The Cultured Ape
  • 2014
    Ode to Joy

    Ode to Joy

    Ode to Joy

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    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...

    Ode to Joy
  • 1970
    A Short Tall Story

    A Short Tall Story

    A Short Tall Story

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

    A Short Tall Story
  • 1961
    For Better, For Worse

    For Better, For Worse

    For Better, For Worse

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

    For Better, For Worse
  • 1948
    Robinson Charley

    Robinson Charley

    Robinson Charley

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

    Robinson Charley
  • 1949
    Charley Junior's Schooldays

    Charley Junior's Schooldays

    Charley Junior's Schooldays

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

    Charley Junior's Schooldays
  • 1948
    Your Very Good Health

    Your Very Good Health

    Your Very Good Health

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

    Your Very Good Health
  • 1964
    Automania 2000

    Automania 2000

    Automania 2000

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

    Automania 2000