John Halas Movies

This cartoon propaganda short by Halas & Batchelor sweetens the pill of post-war coal prices by promising jam tomorrow.

A documentary essay about the unsung animation visionary, John Halas. An Animated Utopia explores his desire "to save the world using animation" and...

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

This satirical animated short by the renowned Halas & Batchelor Studio asks the big Question. Can the meaning of life be found in religion or...

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...

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

An animated short based on the cartoons of Gerard Hoffnung.

If you haven’t already been diverted by the history of John Gilpin, or would like to venture that way again, you couldn’t find a better...

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

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 humorous introduction to problem analysis and programming.

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

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...

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

A fully digitized computer-animated film which shows the question whether man will use his inventive abilities for destruction or as the key to...

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

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

Hello darkness my old friend. The four-part “experiment in word, music and paintings” that was made by the BFI for the 1951 Festival of...