Joy Batchelor Movies

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 Baronet of Ruddigore, Sir Despard Murgatroyd, has inherited a family curse which forces him to commit a crime every day — or die in agony....

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...

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

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

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

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

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

The first British animated Technicolor film.

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

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

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

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

Popular animated character Charley explains the National Insurance Act, which was legislation that made health insurance available to all British...

BBC Four’s new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examines the creative and technical inventiveness...

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

Instructional cartoon for the Admiralty.

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

Ever seen a snake with a moustache? The Middle East was as much an ideological as a physical battleground in the Second World War. In the midst of...