Movies: John Halas

  • 1981
    Heavy Metal

    Heavy Metal (1981)

    Heavy Metal

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    The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror....

    Heavy Metal
  • 1954
    Animal Farm

    Animal Farm (1954)

    Animal Farm

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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....

    Animal Farm
  • 1946
    A Modern Guide to Health

    A Modern Guide to Health (1946)

    A Modern Guide to Health

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    Modern advice and old-fashioned values combine in this postwar animated health guide from the makers of Animal Farm....

    A Modern Guide to Health
  • 2015
    John Halas Remembered: An Animator Ahead of His Time 1912-1995

    John Halas Remembered: An Animator Ahead of His Time 1912-1995 (2015)

    John Halas Remembered: An Animator Ahead of His Time 1912-1995

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    A documentary about John Halas, the Hungarian-Jewish emigre who became the father of British Animation. John is a key figure in British cinema and his contribution goes far beyond making Animal Farm in 1954, Britain's first animated feature-film. He ...

    John Halas Remembered: An Animator Ahead of His Time 1912-1995
  • 1961
    The Monster of Highgate Ponds

    The Monster of Highgate Ponds (1961)

    The Monster of Highgate Ponds

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

    The Monster of Highgate Ponds
  • 1967
    Ruddigore

    Ruddigore (1967)

    Ruddigore

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    For centuries, the Murgatroyd family, the Baronets of Ruddigore, have been under a witch's curse — commit a crime every day, or die in agony. Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd, the rightful heir, has run away to live as innocent peasant Robin Oakapple in the Co...

    Ruddigore
  • 1969
    Painter and Poet No. 2

    Painter and Poet No. 2 (1969)

    Painter and Poet No. 2

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    A trip into a surreal winter garden, a voyage on a stormy sea, a grisly homecoming – there is something for everyone in this “experiment in words, music and paintings”. Four films were made in this series for the BFI’s Telekinema at the Festival of B...

    Painter and Poet No. 2
  • 1970
    Ways and Means

    Ways and Means (1970)

    Ways and Means

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    Ways and Means
  • 1945
    Handling Ships

    Handling Ships (1945)

    Handling Ships

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    Instructional cartoon for the Admiralty....

    Handling Ships
  • 1965
    The Hoffnung Palm Court Orchestra

    The Hoffnung Palm Court Orchestra (1965)

    The Hoffnung Palm Court Orchestra

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    This a story of a violinist, pianist and cellist as they perform from place-to-place, under very unusual conditions. Every time they play, they remind someone of a lost love, so they are hired immediately hired by nightclub owners, ship captains and ...

    The Hoffnung Palm Court Orchestra
  • 1944
    Cold Comfort

    Cold Comfort (1944)

    Cold Comfort

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    A dancing radio stops partying to transmit an announcement on fuel conservation in this WWII cartoon short....

    Cold Comfort
  • 1974
    The Three Musketeers

    The Three Musketeers (1974)

    The Three Musketeers

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    D'Artagnan and his musketeer comrades must thwart the plans of Cardinal Richelieu to usurp King Louis XIII's power....

    The Three Musketeers
  • 1943
    Abu and the Poisoned Well

    Abu and the Poisoned Well (1943)

    Abu and the Poisoned Well

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    Ever 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 featur...

    Abu and the Poisoned Well
  • 1982
    Players

    Players (1982)

    Players

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    Cartoon tennis match, with players based on Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe....

    Players
  • 1947
    Dolly, Put the Kettle On

    Dolly, Put the Kettle On (1947)

    Dolly, Put the Kettle On

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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....

    Dolly, Put the Kettle On
  • 1965
    Birds, Bees and Storks

    Birds, Bees and Storks (1965)

    Birds, Bees and Storks

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    A naïve father makes an embarrassing attempt to explain the facts of life to his son, but he becomes increasingly embarrassed to the point where his explanations are so vague as to be incomprehensible....

    Birds, Bees and Storks
  • 1959
    The Christmas Visitor

    The Christmas Visitor (1959)

    The Christmas Visitor

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    T'was the night before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse....

    The Christmas Visitor
  • 1964
    Automania 2000

    Automania 2000 (1964)

    Automania 2000

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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 predictab...

    Automania 2000
  • 1967
    Dying for a Smoke

    Dying for a Smoke (1967)

    Dying for a Smoke

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    An 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 h...

    Dying for a Smoke
  • 1979
    Autobahn

    Autobahn (1979)

    Autobahn

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    An animated visual interpretation of the song "Autobahn," by German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk. A fast-paced experimental film which proved to be a groundbreaking combination of electronic and manual animation. One of the first films produced spec...

    Autobahn