Most Viewed From Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films

A BAFTA award nominated film made for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company charting the history of aviation from Daedalus to jets.

Hamilton the elephant loves playing music with his trunk. When he is fired from the circus he does odd jobs till he gets his big break.

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...

A documentary concerned with engineering projects connected with developing North Sea oilfields, specifically the Auk and Brent fields.

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

One of a humorous series of films devised to explain in graphic terms the concepts of basic mathematical functions.

Roger Glover puts on a star-studded concert at the Royal Albert Hall for his concept album "The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast".

An animated visual interpretation of the song "Autobahn," by German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk. A fast-paced experimental film which proved to be...

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

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

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

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

A young girl rescues a wild bird. She takes it back to the forest, then finds crystals in the mountain...

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

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

A lonely man living in a large city buys a life-size sex doll. His relationship with his dream doll causes a certain reaction in the community. A...

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

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

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