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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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