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May 18, 2015 · From Animal Farm to a film for Kraftwerk, John Halas and Joy Batchelor blazed a trail for British animators. On their studio’s 80th anniversary, our curator of animation picks his five favourite Halas & Batchelor creations.
Oct 10, 2014 · The rich Halas & Batchelor collection held by the BFI National Archive has played a central role in understanding British animation production from the early 1950s.
Here you can explore the Halas & Batchelor studio, with details about the studio’s history, biographies of key personnel, awards and an extensive range of film clips. Founded in 1940, Halas & Batchelor Cartoons was the largest and most influential animation studio in Western Europe for over 50 years.
John's experience of religious differences within his own family and a deep personal knowledge of the effects of intolerance - many of his family perished in the Holocaust - brought a profoundly humanitarian element to his more personal work, often through satire and humour.
Halas's first production using the computer was a series of films on mathematics made in 1967; he originated his own computer language: HALAB. His later interests have included the investigation of hologram and laser techniques.
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.
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This article will examine John Halas and Joy Batchelor's partnership, identifying the husband-wife team's concern to combine animation with persuasion and how this lead to their involvement in the production of Animal Farm. John Halas was born Janos Halasz in Budapest, 1912 and died in London, 1995.
