Joy Batchelor Movies

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...

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

Animated version of the fairy tale. Tom proves himself cleverer than his brothers when he outwits an ogre and returns home with treasure.

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...

First Line of Defence is a short cartoon recruitment film for the RAF created in 1949 by animation duo Halas and Batchelor. The story follows a...

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

The cartoon is one of the Marshall Plan's most popular films. A clash between a shoemaker and a hat maker illustrates the contrasts between...

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

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

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

Joy Batchelor directed, produced, wrote and designed this short film for Brook Bond Tea: two girls compete for the affections of a Teddy Bear.

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

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

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

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

This highly entertaining animated film begins as a young girl settles down into bed to sleep after coming home from a party. One of her feet...

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

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

This World War II propaganda short encourages British people to "dig for victory," by planting vegetable gardens.

An animated film about the history and use of hot water.