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      • Died: May 14, 1991, London John Halas and Joy Batchelor (respectively, born April 16, 1912, Budapest, Hungary—died Jan. 20/21, 1995, London, England; born May 12, 1914, Watford, Hertfordshire, England—died May 14, 1991, London) were a British husband-and-wife production team, noted for their influential animated films.
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  2. The show closed in January 2022. Here are just a few images. Halas & Batchelor shorts will feature in the Hungarian National Film Institute Classic Film Marathon. The screening of 19 September will be a double feature of John Halas and Gyula Macskassy's oeuvre: the pioneers of animation in Hungary and Britain.

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  3. Halas and Batchelor was a British animation company founded by husband and wife John Halas and Joy Batchelor. Halas was a Hungarian émigré to the United Kingdom . The company had studios in London and Cainscross, in the Stroud District of Gloucestershire.

  4. Nov 18, 2022 · The company’s masterminds were John Halas, a Hungarian director living in London, and Joy Batchelor — an English artist and writer and producer (among other things). The two were partners in art and life.

  5. May 18, 2015 · 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 animated feature film, Animal Farm (1954).

  6. Apr 12, 2024 · This year marks the 70th anniversary of the release of John Halas and Joy Batchelor's animated adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm. Cinema Paradiso recalls the making of the film and the legacy of British animation's power couple. A still from Animal Farm (1954)

  7. Joy Batchelor was born in Watford, England, in 1914. By the time she answered John Halass advertisement for an animator in 1937, she was already an experienced illustrator/animator, a rare thing for a woman in the nineteen-thirties.

  8. 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.

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