The Animated World of Halas and Batchelor

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Status

Released

Production

Unity House Productions

Aired

2020-05-18

The Animated World of Halas and Batchelor

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 feature-length animation in British cinema history, Animal Farm (1954).