Films produced by Halas And Batchelor Cartoon Films

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...

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...

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...

A humorously semi-factual account of the history of cinema.

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

A short animated War Office commissioned health education film, showing the fate of each of the 6 jungle soldiers.

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

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

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...

One of Hoot's prisoners, Billy the Kidder, escapes and Hoot tries to capture him, but Billy keeps pulling practical jokes on Hoot.

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

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

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

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

A light hearted look at the various instruments of the orchestra, based on the original cartoons of the late Gerard Hoffnung, satirising musical...

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

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

a short Halas & Batchelor animation about the adventures of Bolly and his friends on imaginary planets, featuring animation by Tony Guy, animation...

Married to your television? This cartoon gives you an opportunity to re-evaluate your relationship with the gogglebox.

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

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...

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...

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...

A humorously semi-factual account of the history of cinema.