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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.
John Halas and Joy Batchelor were a British husband-and-wife production team, noted for their influential animated films. Halas was educated in Hungary and Paris and apprenticed to George Pal; he moved to England as an animator in 1936. After art school Batchelor became a commercial artist and met.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
John Halas and Joy Batchelor met in London in 1937. John had arrived from Budapest having been asked to set up British Colour Cartoon Films Limited and was looking for animators. Joy answered his advertisement. He saw her work and hired her on the spot.
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 that were made in Budapest.
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]
John Halas was educated in Budapest and Paris, and originally worked as an assistant to George Pal before establishing himself as an independent animator in 1934. In 1936 he came to England; while working on a cartoon film, The Music Man , he met Joy Batchelor, who entered films in 1935 as a commercial artist.
BIOGRAPHY: Born in Watford, Joy Batchelor worked as a freelance graphic artist and designer on various newspapers and magazines before meeting John Halas through a press advertisement for an animator.
