Movies

Shows the improved services and other benefits that oil brings to the backward territories. The financial and technical resources of foreign lands...

A BAFTA award nominated animated Industrial safety film featuring a clumsy fruit porter who learns the error of his ways, told as a mini-operetta.

A surreal mix of advertising tropes from the 1960s is very funny but has a neat anti-capitalist undertow.

A tourist travelling through Morocco discovers an ancient curse and must choose between light and dark.

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

The story of married animators, John Halas and Joy Batchelor. A Jewish emigre from Hungary and a working class woman from Watford, England, John and...

Watch the Ungle Wungle bird find his mate in this very early Bob Godfrey film, made with his colleagues at Larkins Studio.

Unbeknownst to the Spencer Davis Group, their manager is upper class, grew up in a haunted manor, and is called Algernon. When they visit his home,...

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 BAFTA award nominated animation about the development and achievements in telecommunications by the Philips Company.

A short animated War Office commissioned health education film, showing the fate of each of the 6 jungle soldiers.

Animated short. A man runs and runs.

Samantha, beloved by Spring, is captured by a butterfly hunter.

A BAFTA award nominated animation advertising "Time" magazine.

This cartoon propaganda short by Halas & Batchelor sweetens the pill of post-war coal prices by promising jam tomorrow.

Meet Mildred. A delightfully dotty older lady who’s carefree attitude means you need to be careful around her. Not the most obvious route into...

Ever seen a snake with a moustache? The Middle East was as much an ideological as a physical battleground in the Second World War. In the midst of...

A mock promotional short cartoon film for the 'Do-It-Yourself Cartoon Kit'

First Line of Defence is a short cartoon recruitment film for the RAF created in 1949 by animation duo Halas and Batchelor. The story follows a...

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