Most Viewed From Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films

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

Our animated hero questions his sanity after blowing his top and driving his car into a police station.

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

Animated short from Halas and Batchelor encouraging the British public to post early for Christmas.

A short animation based on the Edward Lear poem

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

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

Cartoon tennis match, with players based on Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe.

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

Hamilton the elephant is being trained for the circus when he discovers his amazing musical ability; the ringmaster decides to exploit his new-found...

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

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...