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Joy Ethel Batchelor (12 May 1914 – 14 May 1991) was an English animator, director, screenwriter, and producer. She married John Halas in 1940 and subsequently co-established Halas and Batchelor cartoons, whose best known production is the animated feature film Animal Farm (1954), which made her the first woman director of an animated feature since Lotte Reiniger. Together they created over 2000 shorts/films, and produced roughly 70 propaganda pieces during World War II for the British government. She helped co-write, write, animate, produce, and direct many of their productions.
One of her projects as an art director was Cinerama Holiday (1955). Joy directed and wrote Ruddigore (1967), a television-film adaptation of W.S. Gilbert's opera of the same name, which became the first opera to be adapted into an animated film. She later worked in television, directing series, including animated shows like The Jackson 5ive (1971). Batchelor died on 14 May 1991, just two days after her 77th birthday.
Most Popular Joy Batchelor Trailers
Total trailers found: 44
16 July 1948
No man is an island, but Charley represents his nation in this economical cartoon tale of Britain’s economics.
05 June 1946
Modern advice and old-fashioned values combine in this postwar animated health guide from the makers of Animal Farm.
01 December 1944
Animated short from Halas and Batchelor encouraging the British public to post early for Christmas.
25 December 1956
A candlemaker entrusts his young son with the task of making candles for their church on Christmas Eve.
16 December 1950
Cartoon of chicken's adventures while being chased by woodland animal.
04 May 1944
A dancing radio stops partying to transmit an announcement on fuel conservation in this WWII cartoon short.
02 March 1952
A feature length instructional video for the Admiralty on coastal navigation and pilotage.
01 January 1948
Meet Charley, your jovial cartoon guide to Britain’s changing towns and cities.
01 January 1946
Cartoon 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.
01 January 1938
The first British animated Technicolor film.
10 August 1964
Puck is introduced to the twentieth century and is as amused by the contemporary obsession with television as he was by the lovers' antics.
02 January 1948
Popular animated character Charley explains the National Insurance Act, which was legislation that made health insurance available to all British citizens.
19 November 2018
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, John Halas and Joy Batchelor, Joanna Quinn, and Bristol’s world-conquering Aardman Animations.
28 December 1954
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.
22 June 1945
Instructional cartoon for the Admiralty.
01 January 1943
Ever seen a snake with a moustache? The Middle East was as much an ideological as a physical battleground in the Second World War.
01 January 1942
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.
01 January 1966
Animated version of the fairy tale. Tom proves himself cleverer than his brothers when he outwits an ogre and returns home with treasure.
01 January 1949
Cartoon on the fly nuisance, showing the dangers of food contamination and how the dangers can be minimised by food-protection and cleanliness that was produced in the UK for the Ministry of Health.
18 July 1949
First Line of Defence is a short cartoon recruitment film for the RAF created in 1949 by animation duo Halas and Batchelor.
01 January 1942
This World War II propaganda short encourages British people to "dig for victory," by planting vegetable gardens.
01 October 1949
This cartoon propaganda short by Halas & Batchelor sweetens the pill of post-war coal prices by promising jam tomorrow.
01 July 1949
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.
30 December 1948
A powerfully graphic piece of animation that best expresses John Halas' own feelings about mans universal quest for freedom.
01 January 2014
An 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, Animal Farm, in 1954.
01 January 1952
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.
02 January 1949
A soon-to-be born baby learns about the kinds of schools he will attending in the years following his birth.
12 June 1964
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 environmental consequences.
01 January 1948
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.
06 April 1970
This highly entertaining animated film begins as a young girl settles down into bed to sleep after coming home from a party.
01 January 1950
The 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.
27 April 1967
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.
01 January 1961
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.
01 January 1953
A 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.
06 July 1967
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.
01 January 1954
A BAFTA award nominated animation looking at the development of oil prospecting techniques since the 19th century.
01 January 1959
An animated film about the history and use of hot water.
24 December 1959
T'was the night before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
15 November 1945
A short animated War Office commissioned health education film, showing the fate of each of the 6 jungle soldiers.
01 May 1961
The story of three children who find themselves with a friendly monster that grows at an alarming rate.
01 January 1941
A colorful cartoon commercial for soap flakes seems the last place that the realities of wartime life should creep in.
01 January 1942
The film is designed to encourage recycling - which was a key part of the war effort.
01 April 1947
Joy Batchelor directed, produced, wrote and designed this short film for Brook Bond Tea: two girls compete for the affections of a Teddy Bear.
