Joy Batchelor
Joy Ethel Batchelor (12 May 1914 – 14 May 1991) was an English animator, director, screenwriter, and producer. She married John Halas in 1940 and subsequently co-established Halas and Batchelor cartoons, whose best known production is the animated feature film Animal Farm (1954), which made her the first woman director of an animated feature since Lotte Reiniger. Together they created over 2000 shorts/films, and produced roughly 70 propaganda pieces during World War II for the British government. She helped co-write, write, animate, produce, and direct many of their productions.
One of her projects as an art director was Cinerama Holiday (1955). Joy directed and wrote Ruddigore (1967), a television-film adaptation of W.S. Gilbert's opera of the same name, which became the first opera to be adapted into an animated film. She later worked in television, directing series, including animated shows like The Jackson 5ive (1971). Batchelor died on 14 May 1991, just two days after her 77th birthday.
Fotos
Películas (45)
Secrets of British Animation
2018 · Self (archive Photos)
Ode to Joy
2014
The Five
1970 · Director
Bolly in A Space Adventure
1968 · Director
Dying for a Smoke
1967 · Script
Ruddigore
1967 · Producer, Adaptation, Director
Little Tom Thumb
1966 · Director
Midsummer Nightmare
1964 · Writer
Automania 2000
1964 · Writer
The Monster of Highgate Ponds
1961 · Writer
Hamilton in the Music Festival
1961 · Story
The Christmas Visitor
1959 · Writer
Piping Hot
1959 · Story, Director
The Candlemaker
1956 · Director
Animal Farm
1954 · Director, Producer, Screenplay
Down a Long Way
1954 · Story
The Moving Spirit
1953 · Producer
Coastal Navigation
1952 · Producer
The Figurehead
1952 · Writer, Producer
Fowl Play
1950 · Producer
The Shoemaker and the Hatter
1950 · Director, Writer
Charley's Black Magic
1949 · Director, Writer, Producer
R.A.F.: First Line of Defence
1949 · Director
Farmer Charley
1949 · Director
Charley Junior's Schooldays
1949 · Producer, Director
Fly About the House
1949 · Director, Writer
The Magic Canvas
1948 · Producer
Robinson Charley
1948 · Director, Writer
Charley in New Town
1948 · Story, Producer, Director
Your Very Good Health
1948 · Director
Dolly, Put the Kettle On
1947 · Producer, Writer, Character Designer, Director
A Modern Guide to Health
1946 · Producer, Director
Train Trouble
1946 · Director
6 Little Jungle Boys
1945 · Director, Animation, Producer
Handling Ships
1945 · Writer, Director
Christmas Wishes
1944 · Director
Cold Comfort
1944 · Director
Abu and the Poisoned Well
1943 · Director
Abu's Dungeon
1943 · Director, Producer
Filling the Gap
1942 · Director
Dustbin Parade
1942 · Animation, Writer, Art Designer, Producer, Director
Fable of the Fabrics
1942 · Director
Carnival in the Clothes Cupboard
1941 · Director
Music Man
1938 · Animation
How the Motor Car Works: Part II
· Animation
