Movies: John Halas
- 1981
Heavy Metal (1981)
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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....
- 1954
Animal Farm (1954)
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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....
- 1946
A Modern Guide to Health (1946)
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Modern advice and old-fashioned values combine in this postwar animated health guide from the makers of Animal Farm....
- 2015
John Halas Remembered: An Animator Ahead of His Time 1912-1995 (2015)
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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 ...
- 1961
The Monster of Highgate Ponds (1961)
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The story of three children who find themselves with a friendly monster that grows at an alarming rate....
- 1967
Ruddigore (1967)
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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...
- 1969
Painter and Poet No. 2 (1969)
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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...
- 1970
Ways and Means (1970)
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- 1945
Handling Ships (1945)
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Instructional cartoon for the Admiralty....
- 1965
The Hoffnung Palm Court Orchestra (1965)
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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 ...
- 1944
Cold Comfort (1944)
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A dancing radio stops partying to transmit an announcement on fuel conservation in this WWII cartoon short....
- 1974
The Three Musketeers (1974)
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D'Artagnan and his musketeer comrades must thwart the plans of Cardinal Richelieu to usurp King Louis XIII's power....
- 1943
Abu and the Poisoned Well (1943)
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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...
- 1982
Players (1982)
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Cartoon tennis match, with players based on Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe....
- 1947
Dolly, Put the Kettle On (1947)
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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....
- 1965
Birds, Bees and Storks (1965)
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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....
- 1959
The Christmas Visitor (1959)
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T'was the night before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse....
- 1964
Automania 2000 (1964)
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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...
- 1967
Dying for a Smoke (1967)
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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...
- 1979
Autobahn (1979)
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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...