John Halas Movies

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

Everyone knows that petroleum comes out of the earth, but the question is how did it get there, and what is it made of? The answer to these questions...

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....

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

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

A fully digitized computer-animated film which shows the question whether man will use his inventive abilities for destruction or as the key to...

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...

An illustrated version of Twa Corbies made as the BFI’s contribution to the Festival of Britain. Enlivened by the distinctive voice of John...

Documents the life and influence of the Bahaus artist, László Moholy-Nagy.

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

A short animation based on the Edward Lear poem

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.

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

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 short based on the cartoons of Gerard Hoffnung.

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

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...

Charley, a mechanic, inherits a half-share in a farm run by his cousin and he soon has his dream of an idyllic country life rudely shattered by hard...

A dancing radio stops partying to transmit an announcement on fuel conservation in this WWII cartoon short.

A musically talented ape is captured in the jungle and taken back to civilisation. However, civilisation proves too uncouth for the cultured ape so...