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...

For centuries, the Murgatroyd family, the Baronets of Ruddigore, have been under a witch's curse — commit a crime every day, or die in agony....

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

Puck is introduced to the twentieth century and is as amused by the contemporary obsession with television as he was by the lovers' antics.

Modern advice and old-fashioned values combine in this postwar animated health guide from the makers of Animal Farm.

Instructional cartoon for the Admiralty.

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

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

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

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

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

T'was the night before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

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...

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

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

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

An animated cartoon on smoking and health. The villain, Old Nick O'Teen, disguises himself as an 18-year-old motorcyclist, the better to lure...

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...

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