Movies: Halas And Batchelor Cartoon Films

  • 1981
    Heavy Metal

    Heavy Metal (1981)

    Heavy Metal

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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....

    Heavy Metal
  • 1976
    The Twelve Tasks of Asterix

    The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976)

    The Twelve Tasks of Asterix

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    Asterix and Obelix depart on an adventure to complete twelve impossible tasks to prove to Caesar that they are as strong as the Gods. You'll roar with laughter as they outwit, outrun, and generally outrage the very people who are trying to prove them...

    The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
  • 1954
    Animal Farm

    Animal Farm (1954)

    Animal Farm

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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....

    Animal Farm
  • 1967
    Ruddigore

    Ruddigore (1967)

    Ruddigore

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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...

    Ruddigore
  • 1959
    Piping Hot

    Piping Hot (1959)

    Piping Hot

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

    Piping Hot
  • 1977
    The Butterfly Ball

    The Butterfly Ball (1977)

    The Butterfly Ball

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    Roger Glover puts on a star-studded concert at the Royal Albert Hall for his concept album "The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast"....

    The Butterfly Ball
  • 1974
    The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast

    The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast (1974)

    The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast

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    A project assembled to musically support William Plomer's (1903-73) book of poems called 'The Butterfly Ball and Grasshoppers Feast'; in which Alan Aldridge had provided the illustrations. British Lion had secured the rights, and commissioned Glover,...

    The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast
  • 1946
    A Modern Guide to Health

    A Modern Guide to Health (1946)

    A Modern Guide to Health

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    Modern advice and old-fashioned values combine in this postwar animated health guide from the makers of Animal Farm....

    A Modern Guide to Health
  • 1964
    Midsummer Nightmare

    Midsummer Nightmare (1964)

    Midsummer Nightmare

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    Puck is introduced to the twentieth century and is as amused by the contemporary obsession with television as he was by the lovers' antics....

    Midsummer Nightmare
  • 1994
    Know Your Europeans: The United Kingdom

    Know Your Europeans: The United Kingdom (1994)

    Know Your Europeans: The United Kingdom

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    Set to Gilbert and Sullivan tunes, a musical cartoon attempts to describe the character of the British nation, with occasional interruptions by Prince Charles....

    Know Your Europeans: The United Kingdom
  • 1979
    Dream Doll

    Dream Doll (1979)

    Dream Doll

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    A lonely man living in a large city buys a life-size sex doll. His relationship with his dream doll causes a certain reaction in the community. A bizarre adaption of Le Ballon Rouge....

    Dream Doll
  • 1961
    For Better, For Worse

    For Better, For Worse (1961)

    For Better, For Worse

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    Married to your television? This cartoon gives you an opportunity to re-evaluate your relationship with the gogglebox....

    For Better, For Worse
  • 1950
    Fowl Play

    Fowl Play (1950)

    Fowl Play

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    Cartoon of chicken's adventures while being chased by woodland animal....

    Fowl Play
  • 1948
    Charley in New Town

    Charley in New Town (1948)

    Charley in New Town

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

    Charley in New Town
  • 1982
    Players

    Players (1982)

    Players

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    Cartoon tennis match, with players based on Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe....

    Players
  • 1953
    The Moving Spirit

    The Moving Spirit (1953)

    The Moving Spirit

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    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....

    The Moving Spirit
  • 1956
    Mr. Finley's Feelings

    Mr. Finley's Feelings (1956)

    Mr. Finley's Feelings

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    Our animated hero questions his sanity after blowing his top and driving his car into a police station....

    Mr. Finley's Feelings
  • 1967
    Dying for a Smoke

    Dying for a Smoke (1967)

    Dying for a Smoke

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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...

    Dying for a Smoke
  • 1948
    Charley's March of Time

    Charley's March of Time (1948)

    Charley's March of Time

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    Popular animated character Charley explains the National Insurance Act, which was legislation that made health insurance available to all British citizens....

    Charley's March of Time
  • 1952
    The Figurehead

    The Figurehead (1952)

    The Figurehead

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    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. The ship sinks and...

    The Figurehead