Films produced by Halas And Batchelor Cartoon Films

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...

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...

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 winning documentary on the basic principles and applications of hydrostatics.

A light hearted look at the various instruments of the orchestra, based on the original cartoons of the late Gerard Hoffnung, satirising musical...

The Baronet of Ruddigore, Sir Despard Murgatroyd, has inherited a family curse which forces him to commit a crime every day — or die in agony....

This cartoon propaganda short by Halas & Batchelor sweetens the pill of post-war coal prices by promising jam tomorrow.

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

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

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...

Married to your television? This cartoon gives you an opportunity to re-evaluate your relationship with the gogglebox.

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

An animated short outlining the problems with alcohol consumption.

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