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Joy Ethel Batchelor (12 May 1914 – 14 May 1991) was an English animator, director, screenwriter, and producer. She married John Halas in 1940 [3] 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 ...
Joy Batchelor was born on 22 May 1914 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK. She was a producer and director, known for Animal Farm (1954), New Schools (1947) and Ruddigore (1966). She was married to John Halas. She died on 14 May 1991 in London, England, UK.
- Producer, Director, Writer
- May 22, 1914
- Joy Batchelor
- May 14, 1991
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.
John Halas and Joy Batchelor (respectively, born April 16, 1912, Budapest, Hungary—died Jan. 20/21, 1995, London, England; born May 12, 1914, Watford, Hertfordshire, England—died May 14, 1991, London) were a British husband-and-wife production team, noted for their influential animated films.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Joy Ethel Batchelor was born on May 12 th, 1914 in the English town of Watford to a family of artists and craftsmen as the oldest of three children. Her father, Edward Joseph Batchelor, worked at John Bale & Danielson Ltd in Clerkenwell as a master lithographic draughtsman.
May 12, 2021 · Learn about Joy Batchelor, the second woman to direct an animated feature film, Animal Farm, and co-founder of Halas & Batchelor studio. Watch videos, read articles, and explore her illustration style and legacy.
'Joy Batchelor was the most successful woman in British animation to date. Her forty year career as first an animator, but then very quickly as a writer, producer, director, and joint creative head at what was one of the biggest animation studios in Western Europe, has never been matched, and probably never will.
