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The Animal Farm

Date released

20 Jun 1955

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

025

NoS ID

120046

Story no

4 / 4

Extras

1 film clip

NoS Summary - Shows the step-by-step creation of a single frame, or cel, for the animated film "Animal Farm". John Halas is seen working.

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Halas & Batchelor Short Film Collection, The (2016)

Director

John Halas; Joy Batchelor

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 139 minutes), £9.18

Animation. This collection of eighteen short films presents a necessarily selective view of the output of the British animation company, from 1948 - 1981. A useful range of extras includes ‘An Animated...

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Midsummer Nightmare (1964 Film)

Director

John Halas

Producer

John Halas; Joy Batchelor

Cartoon directed by John Halas. Puck is introduced to the twentieth century and is as amused by the contemporary obsession with television as he was by the lovers’ antics in Shakespeare’s play. His sense...

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Animal Farm (1954)

Director

John Halas; Joy Batchelor

Subject

English language and literature; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 69 minutes), £6.98

John Halas and Joy Batchelor’s adaptation of George Orwell’s novel was the first feature-length British animated film to be given a theatrical release. Actor and singer Gordon Heath narrates, and the...

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Halas & Batchelor Collection (1948)

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 133 minutes), £9.99

Affectionately referred to as ‘the British Disney’, Halas & Batchelor’s highly influential and internationally acclaimed body of work encompassed children’s series, public education films, adverts...

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Twa Corbies/Spring and Winter (1951 Film)

aka: Spring and Winter

Series

Painter and Poet, No.1

Director

John Halas

Producer

John Halas; Joan Maude; Michael Warre

A series of four films using still drawings from a number of artists to accompany poetry readings. Sponsored by the British Film Institute and produced by Halas and Batchelor for the Festival of Britain,...

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Dustbin Parade (1942 Film)

Producer

Edgar Anstey; John Taylor

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A cartoon on the need to collect scrap metals for use in the war production effort.

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They Came to a City (1944)

Director

Basil Dearden

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (78 minutes), £14.99

Nine disparate Britons are transported to a mysterious city where, according to their class and disposition, they find themselves either in an earthly paradise of peace and equality or a hell starved of...

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