The Halas & Batchelor Short Film Collection on Blu-ray and DVD [read more]
Cartoon cavalcade
HIGHLY influential and internationally acclaimed, the fondly-remembered work of husband-and-wife animation team John Halas and Joy Batchelor encompassed children’s series, public education films and adverts, and they were affectionately referred to as 'the British Disney'. This collection of short films will both remind and reinforce how stunningly innovative, whimsically humorous and subversively entertaining their four decade body of work actually was. The Halas & Batchelor Short Film Collection (PG) is released on Blu-ray RR £14.99, and DVD RRP £12.99, from 29 June 2015.
From an uncannily prophetic, Oscar-nominated satire on technological overkill and automated gridlock (Automania 2000) to the adventures of two paper-cutout canines (Snip and Snap), the films present wide-ranging content in a gloriously inventive fashion.
