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She attended Watford Grammar School for Girls and later attended Watford School of Art, Science and Commerce, [6] to which she had won a scholarship. She was offered placement afterwards at the Slade School of Art , but did not continue schooling to help support her family financially.
Joy Batchelor. SUMMARY: In this interview, Batchelor talks to Kay Mander about her career, commenting other animators and their influence on her, from the early period up to the 1980s, and on the difficulties of running a small business and training animators.
May 18, 2020 · Joy responded. Born in 1917, she too was a born artist, and after graduating from the Watford School of Art had been working for three years at a small cartoon studio in Soho.
- Robbie Collin
- Film Critic
The evening started with a talk by Vivien about her mother’s life: Joy was born in Watford to a commercial artist and a former golf club manageress. After leaving art school, she found work at an animation studio and met her future husband, Hungarian animator John Halas; the two set up Halas & Batchelor Cartoons in 1940.
May 12, 2021 · She worked into the 1970s before retiring and continued teaching at the London International Film School. She passed away in 1991. Halas would pass away in 1995.
- Jen Hurler
Dec 16, 2014 · 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, and with a CV like hers, reeling off ...
By the mid 1970s she retired through ill health, but continued to teach at the London International Film School, where she remained a governor until her death in 1991. For more in-depth information about Joy Batchelor and her work, please read our book A Moving Image, Joy Batchelor 1914-91, Artist, Writer and Animator , which is available from ...
