Joy Batchelor Movies

A soon-to-be born baby learns about the kinds of schools he will attending in the years following his birth.

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

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

The cartoon is one of the Marshall Plan's most popular films. A clash between a shoemaker and a hat maker illustrates the contrasts between...

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

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

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

Cartoon proof that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. In this 1940s cinema advert, the tardiness of Signalman Squirrel's breakfast...

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...

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

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

A dancing radio stops partying to transmit an announcement on fuel conservation in this WWII cartoon short.

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

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

Animated version of the fairy tale. Tom proves himself cleverer than his brothers when he outwits an ogre and returns home with treasure.

This highly entertaining animated film begins as a young girl settles down into bed to sleep after coming home from a party. One of her feet...

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

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

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