Joy Batchelor Movies

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...

BBC Four’s new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examines the creative and technical inventiveness...

This highly entertaining animated film begins as a young girl settles down into bed to sleep after coming home from a party. One of her feet...

An animated film about the history and use of hot water.

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

A short animated War Office commissioned health education film, showing the fate of each of the 6 jungle soldiers.

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...

A soon-to-be born baby learns about the kinds of schools he will attending in the years following his birth.

A BAFTA award nominated animation looking at the development of oil prospecting techniques since the 19th century.

A BAFTA nominated specialized film

Meet Charley, your jovial cartoon guide to Britain’s changing towns and cities.

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...

No man is an island, but Charley represents his nation in this economical cartoon tale of Britain’s economics.

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.

In this film Charley demystifies the new state-funded National Health Service, detailing the benefits a free-at-point-of-delivery health service will...

Joy Batchelor directed, produced, wrote and designed this short film for Brook Bond Tea: two girls compete for the affections of a Teddy Bear.

An animated, dark satire of America's automobile-obsessed, consumerist culture. An anonymous, brilliant scientist toils tirelessly in his ivory tower...

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...

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

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...