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Joy Ethel Batchelor (12 May 1914 [1] [2] – 14 May 1991) was an English animator, director, screenwriter, and producer. She married John Halas in 1940 [ 3 ] and subsequently co-established Halas and Batchelor cartoons, whose best known production is the animated feature film Animal Farm (1954), which made her the first woman director of an animated feature since Lotte Reiniger .
Joy Batchelor. Joy Batchelor was born in Watford, England, in 1914. By the time she answered John Halas’s advertisement for an animator in 1937, she was already an experienced illustrator/animator, a rare thing for a woman in the nineteen-thirties. John immediately recognised her talent and their collaboration began with a series of films ...
Dec 16, 2014 · of animator Joy Batchelor. by Jez Stewart. This year has seen a variety of events to mark the birth centenary of British animator Joy Batchelor (1914-1991), and in my role of Curator of Animation at the BFI National Archive I have been fortunate to be involved in a number of them. The first goal has simply been to bring attention to her work ...
When Joy set up her company with her husband, this was unique considering at the time, in the late 1940s – early 1950s, women were expected to stay at home cook and look after their children, not run a successful animation studio. Joy was self taught in her craft and had also taught others. Some of the work she did for Harper’s Bazaar is ...
Transcription Date: 2004-03-18. Interview Date: 1972-05. Interviewers: Jim Shields. Interviewee: Kay Mander. Kay Mander: Joy, could we start with when and where you were born? Joy Batchelor: I was born in Watford, and at the time it was a little market town, and now nobody would know it, including me. It's horrible, perfectly foul.
May 18, 2015 · On 18 May 1940, 80 years ago, Britain’s biggest and most influential animation studio of the 20th century was founded – Halas & Batchelor Cartoon Films. The efforts, aspirations and acumen of Watford-born Joy Batchelor (1914-91) and her Hungarian husband and business partner John Halas (1912-95) changed the face of the industry in this country – most notably through Britain’s first ...
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Joy Ethel Batchelor (12 May 1914 [1] [2] – 14 May 1991) was an English animator, director, screenwriter, and producer. She married John Halas in 1940 [3] and subsequently co-established Halas and Batchelor cartoons, whose best known production is the animated feature film Animal Farm (1954), which made her the first woman director of an animated feature since Lotte Reiniger.
