Joy Batchelor Movies

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Charley, a mechanic, inherits a half-share in a farm run by his cousin and he soon has his dream of an idyllic country life rudely shattered by hard...

An introduction to the life and work of Joy Batchelor on the hundredth anniversary of her birth. Joy was a director, animator, producer and designer...

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.

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

The first British animated Technicolor film.

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