Movies

A colorful cartoon commercial for soap flakes seems the last place that the realities of wartime life should creep in. A clothes cupboard opens to...

A trip into a surreal winter garden, a voyage on a stormy sea, a grisly homecoming – there is something for everyone in this “experiment...

A BAFTA nominated specialized film

Cartoon on the fly nuisance, showing the dangers of food contamination and how the dangers can be minimised by food-protection and cleanliness that...

An animated cartoon of drawings by young children, who imagine the motor car of today and of the future.

Out with the old and in with the new – one of Britain’s leading animation companies pitches its new image with great humour.

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....

This satirical animated short by the renowned Halas & Batchelor Studio asks the big Question. Can the meaning of life be found in religion or...

An animated short based on the cartoons of Gerard Hoffnung.

Hello darkness my old friend. The four-part “experiment in word, music and paintings” that was made by the BFI for the 1951 Festival of...

A documentary essay about the unsung animation visionary, John Halas. An Animated Utopia explores his desire "to save the world using animation" and...

The film is designed to encourage recycling - which was a key part of the war effort.

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. This neat...

An animated visual interpretation of the song "Autobahn," by German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk. A fast-paced experimental film which proved to be...

A powerfully graphic piece of animation that best expresses John Halas' own feelings about mans universal quest for freedom.

This World War II propaganda short encourages British people to "dig for victory," by planting vegetable gardens.

Animated satire of business practices