Halas And Batchelor Cartoon Films Movies

Asterix and Obelix depart on an adventure to complete twelve impossible tasks to prove to Caesar that they are as strong as the Gods. You'll roar...

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and...

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

Football crazy, football mad. Don’t watch this off-beat jukebox cartoon expecting any conventional soccer action. Equal parts Disney, Dali and...

The story of three children who find themselves with a friendly monster that grows at an alarming rate.

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

A BAFTA award winning documentary on the basic principles and applications of hydrostatics.

A BAFTA award nominated reworking of a 1957 documentary using models and animation to explain the need to mix air and petrol in the correct...

A one-minute cartoon from Halas and Batchelor's The Condition of Man series, commenting on humanity's struggle to keep a balance of power. Directed...

Seville's most successful Matador has a secret, which his rival will use against him when he finds out.

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

a short Halas & Batchelor animation about the adventures of Bolly and his friends on imaginary planets, featuring animation by Tony Guy, animation...

An animated, dark satire of America's automobile-obsessed, consumerist culture. An anonymous, brilliant scientist toils tirelessly in his ivory tower...

An androgynous person is climbing up a swaying tower of humans who hang in the air. Many drop into a sea of flies below them. The flies pick at their...

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

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 project assembled to musically support William Plomer's (1903-73) book of poems called 'The Butterfly Ball and Grasshoppers Feast'; in which Alan...

A short animation based on the Edward Lear poem

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

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