Most Viewed From Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films

Cartoon of chicken's adventures while being chased by woodland animal.

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

Set to Gilbert and Sullivan tunes, a musical cartoon attempts to describe the character of the British nation, with occasional interruptions by...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

A BAFTA award winning documentary on the basic principles and applications of hydrostatics.

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

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

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

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

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

A naïve father makes an embarrassing attempt to explain the facts of life to his son, but he becomes increasingly embarrassed to the point where...