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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.
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A short history of the Halas & Batchelor animation studio,...
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Renowned Canadian animator Norman McLaren was elected the first president of ASIFA. McLaren, John Halas and our other founding members envisioned a world of peace and dialogue to settle our differences, with the art of animation serving as a bridge between different cultures and ideologies.
Here we present biographies of John Halas, Joy Batchelor, and their daughter Vivien Halas who manages the collection today.
John Halas OBE (born János Halász; [1] 16 April 1912 – 21 January 1995) was a pioneering British animator. Together with Gyula Macskássy (an acquaintance from Sándor Bortnyik's Bauhaus art studio, Műhely), and Félix Kassowitz, Halász co-founded Hungary's first animation studio, Coloriton, in 1932.
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. [1]
Apr 15, 2012 · A twelve-minute documentary about John Halas, one of the most important figures in post-War British Animation, whose centenary is 16th April 2012.For more in...
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Halas published Masters of Animation in 1987 and served as President of the International Animated Film Association (ASIFA). Joy Batchelor kept a lower profile but she was undoubtedly a brilliant and influential designer and animator.
