Halas and bachelor biography of christopher

British animation company

Halas and Batchelor was a British animation company founded by husband and wife John Halas and Joy Batchelor.

Nice Collection of Halas & Batchelor short form cartoons.

Nice Collection of Halas & Batchelor short form cartoons.

He studied with George Pal for a time, then emigrated to England, where he met his wife and partner, Joy Batchelor.

I graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from the University of Rochester with a bachelor's degree in Economics (with Distinction) and Political Science.

I am a Fellow of the Life Management Institute and hold Double Major Bachelor of Arts degree's in Economics and Management from the University of Guelph in.

Chris obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics from St Catherine's College, Oxford, and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Edinburgh.

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, about rec