Halas And Batchelor Cartoon Films Movies

  • 1954
    Animal Farm

    Animal Farm

    Animal Farm

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    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...

    Animal Farm
  • 1981
    Heavy Metal

    Heavy Metal

    Heavy Metal

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    The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.

    Heavy Metal
  • 1976
    The Twelve Tasks of Asterix

    The Twelve Tasks of Asterix

    The Twelve Tasks of Asterix

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    Asterix and Obelix depart on an adventure to complete twelve impossible tasks to prove to Caesar that they are as strong as the Gods. You'll roar...

    The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
  • 1974
    The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast

    The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast

    The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast

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    A project assembled to musically support William Plomer's (1903-73) book of poems called 'The Butterfly Ball and Grasshoppers Feast'; in which Alan...

    The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast
  • 1977
    The Butterfly Ball

    The Butterfly Ball

    The Butterfly Ball

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    Roger Glover puts on a star-studded concert at the Royal Albert Hall for his concept album "The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast".

    The Butterfly Ball
  • 1942
    Dustbin Parade

    Dustbin Parade

    Dustbin Parade

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

    Dustbin Parade
  • 1970
    A Short Tall Story

    A Short Tall Story

    A Short Tall Story

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    The Shorts and the Talls just can’t see eye to eye until a mediating fairy arrives to help them make ends meet.

    A Short Tall Story
  • 1963
    The Axe and the Lamp

    The Axe and the Lamp

    The Axe and the Lamp

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

    The Axe and the Lamp
  • 1946
    A Modern Guide to Health

    A Modern Guide to Health

    A Modern Guide to Health

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

    A Modern Guide to Health
  • 1965
    The Hoffnung Palm Court Orchestra

    The Hoffnung Palm Court Orchestra

    The Hoffnung Palm Court Orchestra

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    This a story of a violinist, pianist and cellist as they perform from place-to-place, under very unusual conditions. Every time they play, they...

    The Hoffnung Palm Court Orchestra
  • 1948
    Your Very Good Health

    Your Very Good Health

    Your Very Good Health

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

    Your Very Good Health
  • 1941
    Carnival in the Clothes Cupboard

    Carnival in the Clothes Cupboard

    Carnival in the Clothes Cupboard

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    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...

    Carnival in the Clothes Cupboard
  • 1971
    Football Freaks

    Football Freaks

    Football Freaks

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

    Football Freaks
  • 1969
    To Our Children's Children's Children

    To Our Children's Children's Children

    To Our Children's Children's Children

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

    To Our Children's Children's Children
  • 1952
    The Figurehead

    The Figurehead

    The Figurehead

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    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 Figurehead
  • 1967
    Ruddigore

    Ruddigore

    Ruddigore

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    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....

    Ruddigore
  • 1948
    The Magic Canvas

    The Magic Canvas

    The Magic Canvas

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

    The Magic Canvas
  • 1964
    Automania 2000

    Automania 2000

    Automania 2000

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

    Automania 2000
  • 1941
    The Pocket Cartoon

    The Pocket Cartoon

    The Pocket Cartoon

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

    The Pocket Cartoon
  • 1942
    Filling the Gap

    Filling the Gap

    Filling the Gap

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

    Filling the Gap