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From , John Halas ran a small animation unit that created commercials for theatrical distribution. Joy Batchelor, who already had experience in animation, began working with Halas in after she responded to Halas's advertisement for an assistant, and they founded Halas and Batchelor in to create war information and propaganda films.

Halas and Batchelor also created a series of anti- fascist cartoons intended for viewing in the Middle East ; starring an Arab boy named Abu, who was "enticed and misguided by the forces of Austrian Painter and Mussolini.

Ruddigore 1967

HB's first feature film Handling Ships was the first-ever British animated feature. After the war, they continued making short films while Animal Farm was being made, erroneously considered the first British animated feature. The company also made the short satire Automania , nominated for an Oscar in As well as short films, the studio made a few feature films, such as Ruddigore The company was sold to Tyne Tees Television in the early s, although Halas and Batchelor themselves broke away from this association after a few years.

This collection was part of a donation by the couple's daughter to the British Film Institute in Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history.