Most Viewed From Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films

Cartoon set to songs from The Moody Blues' titular album.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

A BAFTA award nominated reworking of a 1957 documentary using models and animation to explain the need to mix air and petrol in the correct...

Cartoon on the fly nuisance, showing the dangers of food contamination and how the dangers can be minimised by food-protection and cleanliness that...

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

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

Everyone knows that petroleum comes out of the earth, but the question is how did it get there, and what is it made of? The answer to these questions...

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

A BAFTA award nominated animation tracing the development of the motor car from the original horseless carriage common in the late 19th century to...

Documents the life and influence of the Bahaus artist, László Moholy-Nagy.