John Halas Filmes

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

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

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

A trip into a surreal winter garden, a voyage on a stormy sea, a grisly homecoming – there is something for everyone in this “experiment...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

A colorful cartoon commercial for soap flakes seems the last place that the realities of wartime life should creep in. A clothes cupboard opens to...

If you haven’t already been diverted by the history of John Gilpin, or would like to venture that way again, you couldn’t find a better...

Feature-length instructional cartoon made for the Home Office and the Fire Brigade.

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

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

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

A fully digitized computer-animated film which shows the question whether man will use his inventive abilities for destruction or as the key to...