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Vera joined Halas & Batchelor in 1940 fresh out of art school. Her talents and need to express them quickly moved her from tracing work – copying the pencil drawings of others onto clear cels in ink – to animating herself. She remained a key member of the company in its founding years, before leaving to join the Larkins Studio in the late 40s.
Vera flourished at Larkins, working particularly well with Nancy Hanna who was already established there and the two were head-hunted to work in an animation department at Pearl & Dean under ex-UPA man Dave Hilberman in 1953 or 54. Hildenburg’s tenure at Pearl & Dean was unfortunately short-lived and Nancy and Vera were not treated well by the management thereafter. They both moved to join Bob Godfrey and Keith Learner at Biographic in 1957, and remained key a fixture of the British animation industry there until she retired in 1985.
Post-retirement, Vera has left animation behind but continues to paint and exhibit her work.
Most Popular Vera Linnecar Trailers
Total trailers found: 28
16 July 1948
No man is an island, but Charley represents his nation in this economical cartoon tale of Britain’s economics.
01 November 1962
A surreal mix of advertising tropes from the 1960s is very funny but has a neat anti-capitalist undertow.
01 September 1966
Unbeknownst to the Spencer Davis Group, their manager is upper class, grew up in a haunted manor, and is called Algernon.
01 January 1948
Meet Charley, your jovial cartoon guide to Britain’s changing towns and cities.
02 January 1948
Popular animated character Charley explains the National Insurance Act, which was legislation that made health insurance available to all British citizens.
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 1964
A BAFTA award nominated animated Industrial safety film featuring a clumsy fruit porter who learns the error of his ways, told as a mini-operetta.
02 January 1951
An animated short that summarizes the manufacture of steel and a humorous look at a world without it.
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.
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 1971
Are you a dog or a cat person? If you favour the felines then this animated meditation on cats of all shapes and sizes is for you.
21 May 1965
Samantha, beloved by Spring, is captured by a butterfly hunter.
01 January 1957
A BAFTA award nominated animation about the development and achievements in telecommunications by the Philips Company.
19 September 1968
Animated short. A man runs and runs.
02 January 1949
A soon-to-be born baby learns about the kinds of schools he will attending in the years following his birth.
06 August 1953
Shows the improved services and other benefits that oil brings to the backward territories. The financial and technical resources of foreign lands have tapped the liquid wealth hidden below the surface of the earth.
11 August 1968
A tourist travelling through Morocco discovers an ancient curse and must choose between light and dark.
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.
18 May 2020
The story of married animators, John Halas and Joy Batchelor. A Jewish emigre from Hungary and a working class woman from Watford, England, John and Joy fell in love, created cartoons that helped the allies to win the war, and produced the first feature-length animation in British cinema history, Animal Farm (1954).
01 January 1960
Meet Mildred. A delightfully dotty older lady who’s carefree attitude means you need to be careful around her.
01 April 1961
A mock promotional short cartoon film for the 'Do-It-Yourself Cartoon Kit'
15 November 1945
A short animated War Office commissioned health education film, showing the fate of each of the 6 jungle soldiers.
01 January 1956
A BAFTA award nominated animation advertising "Time" magazine.
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.
