John Halas Movies

An animated visual interpretation of the song "Autobahn," by German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk. A fast-paced experimental film which proved to be...

Out with the old and in with the new – one of Britain’s leading animation companies pitches its new image with great humour.

First 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...

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

The first British animated Technicolor film.

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

An animated short based on the cartoons of Gerard Hoffnung.

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...

A documentary essay about the unsung animation visionary, John Halas. An Animated Utopia explores his desire "to save the world using animation" and...

The Maestro brings a world of emotions to life interpreted by the orchestra and the animation.

A humorous introduction to problem analysis and programming.

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...

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

An updated version of Halas and Batchelor's short film, 'The Magic Canvas', with a new electronic score.

Hello darkness my old friend. The four-part “experiment in word, music and paintings” that was made by the BFI for the 1951 Festival of...

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

Documents the life and influence of the Bahaus artist, László Moholy-Nagy.