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This highly entertaining animated film begins as a young girl settles down into bed to sleep after coming home from a party. One of her feet protrudes from under the bed cover and the toes come alive and discuss how painful they are after being cramped int ...
Watch NowAn animated cartoon on smoking and health. The villain, Old Nick O'Teen, disguises himself as an 18-year-old motorcyclist, the better to lure children into the cigarette habit. Fourteen-year-old Sam falls into the trap, but after awesome visions of his fut ...
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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. He hates the curse, doing his heinous misdeeds as early as possible and good works for the rest of the day to c ...
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Animated version of the fairy tale. Tom proves himself cleverer than his brothers when he outwits an ogre and returns home with treasure. ...
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Puck is introduced to the twentieth century and is as amused by the contemporary obsession with television as he was by the lovers' antics. ...
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An animated, dark satire of America's automobile-obsessed, consumerist culture. An anonymous, brilliant scientist toils tirelessly in his ivory tower satisfying the public's ever-increasing demands for novelty and status consciousness, with predictable env ...
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The story of three children who find themselves with a friendly monster that grows at an alarming rate. ...
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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. ...
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T'was the night before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. ...
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A candlemaker entrusts his young son with the task of making candles for their church on Christmas Eve. ...
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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 they cannot avoid corruption. ...
Watch NowA BAFTA award nominated animation looking at the development of oil prospecting techniques since the 19th century. ...
Watch NowA BAFTA award nominated animation tracing the development of the motor car from the original horseless carriage common in the late 19th century to the 1950s streamlined, massed produced, designs. ...
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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 who is painted to look like a soldier and used as a figurehead on a sailing ship. The ship sinks and the f ...
Watch NowThe cartoon is one of the Marshall Plan's most popular films. A clash between a shoemaker and a hat maker illustrates the contrasts between protectionism and free trade. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2003. ...
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This cartoon propaganda short by Halas & Batchelor sweetens the pill of post-war coal prices by promising jam tomorrow. ...
Watch NowFirst Line of Defence is a short cartoon recruitment film for the RAF created in 1949 by animation duo Halas and Batchelor. The story follows a trainee pilot dreaming about the history of flight. ...
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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 realities. ...
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A soon-to-be born baby learns about the kinds of schools he will attending in the years following his birth. ...
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A powerfully graphic piece of animation that best expresses John Halas' own feelings about mans universal quest for freedom. ...
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No man is an island, but Charley represents his nation in this economical cartoon tale of Britain's economics. ...
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Popular animated character Charley explains the National Insurance Act, which was legislation that made health insurance available to all British citizens. ...
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Meet Charley, your jovial cartoon guide to Britain's changing towns and cities. ...
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In this film Charley demystifies the new state-funded National Health Service, detailing the benefits a free-at-point-of-delivery health service will offer to everyone in England. ...
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Joy Batchelor directed, produced, wrote and designed this short film for Brook Bond Tea: two girls compete for the affections of a Teddy Bear. ...
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Modern advice and old-fashioned values combine in this postwar animated health guide from the makers of Animal Farm. ...
Watch NowCartoon proof that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. In this 1940s cinema advert, the tardiness of Signalman Squirrel's breakfast brings passengers to the brink of a major rail disaster every day. The solution is not setting his alarm earlie ...
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A short animated War Office commissioned health education film, showing the fate of each of the 6 jungle soldiers. ...
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Animated short from Halas and Batchelor encouraging the British public to post early for Christmas. ...
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A dancing radio stops partying to transmit an announcement on fuel conservation in this WWII cartoon short. ...
Watch NowEver 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 the conflict Halas & Batchelor were commissioned by the British Government to make four cartoons featuring a ...
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The film is designed to encourage recycling - which was a key part of the war effort. ...
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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 concept for a cartoon washing powder commercial can be credited to Alexander Mackendrick, who worked at the ...
Watch NowThis World War II propaganda short encourages British people to "dig for victory," by planting vegetable gardens. ...
Watch NowA colorful cartoon commercial for soap flakes seems the last place that the realities of wartime life should creep in. A clothes cupboard opens to reveal a fantasy world where figures on fabric patterns come to life, and a neglected clown is shunned until ...
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BBC Four's new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examines the creative and technical inventiveness of some of the great animation pioneers who have worked in Britain – trailblazing talents such as Len Lye, Joh ...
Watch NowAn introduction to the life and work of Joy Batchelor on the hundredth anniversary of her birth. Joy was a director, animator, producer and designer and one half of the Halas & Batchelor Cartoons Studio, which made the UKs first animated feature film, Anim ...
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