John Halas Movies

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

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

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

Cartoon proof that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. In this 1940s cinema advert, the tardiness of Signalman Squirrel's breakfast...

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.

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

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

A musically talented ape is captured in the jungle and taken back to civilisation. However, civilisation proves too uncouth for the cultured ape so...

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

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...

An animated short based on the cartoons of Gerard Hoffnung.

A short animation based on the Edward Lear poem

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

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...

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

Everyone knows that petroleum comes out of the earth, but the question is how did it get there, and what is it made of? The answer to these questions...

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

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

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...