Movies: Vera Linnecar

Ever seen a snake with a moustache? The Middle East was as much an ideological as a physical battleground in the Second World War. In the midst of the conflict Halas & Batchelor were commissioned by the British Government to make four cartoons featur...

The story of married animators, John Halas and Joy Batchelor. A Jewish emigre from Hungary and a working class woman from Watford, England, John and Joy fell in love, created cartoons that helped the allies to win the war, and produced the first feat...

A soon-to-be born baby learns about the kinds of schools he will attending in the years following his birth....

A tourist travelling through Morocco discovers an ancient curse and must choose between light and dark....

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No man is an island, but Charley represents his nation in this economical cartoon tale of Britain’s economics....

A BAFTA award nominated animated Industrial safety film featuring a clumsy fruit porter who learns the error of his ways, told as a mini-operetta....

Shows the improved services and other benefits that oil brings to the backward territories. The financial and technical resources of foreign lands have tapped the liquid wealth hidden below the surface of the earth. In return a new prosperity and imp...

In this film Charley demystifies the new state-funded National Health Service, detailing the benefits a free-at-point-of-delivery health service will offer to everyone in England....

Joy Batchelor directed, produced, wrote and designed this short film for Brook Bond Tea: two girls compete for the affections of a Teddy Bear....

Unbeknownst to the Spencer Davis Group, their manager is upper class, grew up in a haunted manor, and is called Algernon. When they visit his home, they find out that the family is broke, they don't have the money to pay the servants, and their home ...

An animated short that summarizes the manufacture of steel and a humorous look at a world without it....

A short animated War Office commissioned health education film, showing the fate of each of the 6 jungle soldiers....

A surreal mix of advertising tropes from the 1960s is very funny but has a neat anti-capitalist undertow....

This cartoon propaganda short by Halas & Batchelor sweetens the pill of post-war coal prices by promising jam tomorrow....

Meet Charley, your jovial cartoon guide to Britain’s changing towns and cities....

The film is designed to encourage recycling - which was a key part of the war effort....

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Popular animated character Charley explains the National Insurance Act, which was legislation that made health insurance available to all British citizens....

First Line of Defence is a short cartoon recruitment film for the RAF created in 1949 by animation duo Halas and Batchelor. The story follows a trainee pilot dreaming about the history of flight....