John Halas Movies

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

A musically talented ape is captured in the jungle and taken back to civilisation. However, civilisation proves too uncouth for the cultured ape so...

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...

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

An animated cartoon of drawings by young children, who imagine the motor car of today and of the future.

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...

Instructional cartoon for the Admiralty.

Out with the old and in with the new – one of Britain’s leading animation companies pitches its new image with great humour.

A humorous introduction to problem analysis and programming.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

An updated version of Halas and Batchelor's short film, 'The Magic Canvas', with a new electronic score.

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

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

The Maestro brings a world of emotions to life interpreted by the orchestra and the animation.