This richly illustrated book is a part-history, part-tribute, part-critical analysis of the Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Studio, Britain's leading and most influential animation company for over 50 years between 1940-1995. It draws on the archives of the Halas & Batchelor Collection and looks at the key works of the studio, including Animal Farm, Britain's first full-length animated feature; The Tales of Hoffnung, with the legendary Peter Sellers; the cult classics Autobahn, featuring the music of Kraftwerk, and Butterfly Ball, with the works of the Beatles illustrator.

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Turtleback: 240 pages
Publisher: SOUTHBANK PUBLISHING; Pap/DVD edition (8 Jun. 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1904915175
ISBN-13: 978-1904915171
Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 2.1 x 21.6 cm
Average Customer Review: 1 customer review
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,153,780 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #80 in Books > Music, Stage & Screen > Film > Film Genres > Animation
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"Beautifully designed and richly illustrated." --"Animation World Magazine"

"Beautifully designed and richly illustrated." "Animation World Magazine""

"Beautifully designed and richly illustrated." --Animation World Magazine

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A great book

ByAnimation Fanon 9 October 2006

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This is a long over due book on the work of a key British animation studio. Considering the diverse history of British animation there is a real lack of books about the history or particular studios. The book is a great introduction to the broad history of the studio and the lives of John Halas and Joy Batchelor. While the studio is best remembered for producing Animal Farm the book brings to light other films and projects they worked on. Vivien Halas chapter on her parents gives a deeper insight to the social history and background in which her parents grew up and worked in. Paul Wells chapter is excellent as is to be expected of such a key author on animation. Any animation student who has read Wells Understanding Animation and Fundamentals of Animation will find this book worth while. Jim Walker's chapter on the commercials produced by Halas & Batchelor is well researched and illustrated with well known commercials such as Murrymints. This is one area which is often neglected when discussing the work of animation studios and the chapter gives some insight into the relationship of producing commercials has with the general production history of the studio. Pat Webb's chapter is a welcomed insight to the studio from someone who worked for the studio as John Halas assistant. Richard Holliss's chapter is a joy to read through a number of times while looking back through the images in the book. It is a great read and visually stunning. I found reading the text a joy while looking through the images. The book also includes a collection of short extract papers by Karl Cohen on Animated propaganda during the Cold War, Dan Leab on Orwell Subverted: The CIA and the filming of Animal Farm and John Canemaker's paper Halas & Batchelor, A Visit with England's Leading Producers of Animated Films.

The book is well designed and full of beautiful illustrations, drawings, character designs and photographs. The book also includes a DVD of a selection of the studios film:

Magic Canvas (1948), The Figurehead (1953), The History of the Cinema (1957), Automania 2000 (1963), The Symphony Orchestra (1964), Dilemma (1981), Know your Europeans UK (1995. Know your Europeans was part of series of films produced by different Euopean animators on their own country. The UK film was naturally done by Bob Godfrey.

I hope that there will be more books like this one in the future perhaps one on Bob Godfrey next would be great

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A Wonderful but rather shallow tribute to the important animation studio

ByG. B. J. Grobon 22 August 2016 - Published on Amazon.com

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The British Halas & Batchelor studio was undoubtedly one of the most important postwar animation studios, and it definitely deserves a book. This book by Vivian Halas, daughter of the animator-pair, and Paul Wells is a good start, but makes one yearn for more.

Using contributions from four other writers, 'Halas & Batchelor Cartoons: An Animated History' is a rather disjointed book that more often than not remains on the shallow side. Roger Manvell opens with a much needed, but very sketchy history of the studio. Much more interesting is Vivien Halas's portrait of her parents. Halas is surprisingly open, and doesn't hide the couple's problems, or John Halas's bad job as a father. Jim Walker pleads the importance of Halas & Batchelor's commercial films, while Richard Holliss describes the animation techniques used in the studio's greatest film, 'Animal Farm' (1954). Paul Wells himself has written an essay on the art of Halas & Batchelor, and Pat Raine Webb concludes with the role John Halas has played in the foundation of the International Animated Film Society (ASIFA). Unfortunately, one gets the feeling that all contributions barely scratch the surface.

True, the book is richly illustrated, and it works as a celebration of the studio, and it comes with a DVD with seven of its films, but in my opinion the definitive study of Halas & Batchelor's work has still to be written

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A great book of an important animation studio

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Halas & Batchelor Cartoons: An Animated History

ByChris Mileson 27 July 2008 - Published on Amazon.com

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Perhaps I'm biased. I worked at Halas and Batchelor films in the mid sixties. This is a well put together and highly coherent documentary of the contribution made to world animation by the Hungarian born John Halas and his wife Joy. It is easy to follow- well illustrated, and factually acurate; something a little rare in covering past creative works and productions. Anyone who is interested in the evolution of animation and techniques will enjoy this book.

Chris Miles- Orlando

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