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British animation company

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]

History

From 1936, 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 1938 after she responded to Halas's advertisement for an assistant, and they founded Halas and Batchelor in 1940 to create war information and propaganda films.^[2][3][4] Approximately 70 films were created for the Ministry of Information, the War Office, and the Admiralty over the course of World War II; most of these were shorts intended to improve morale or spur on increased contributions to the war effort, such as Dustbin Parade, abo