Screening of newly restored film to 4K by BFI and Silver Salt Laboratory, with input from the Halas & Batchelor Archive. The team have fully remastered the film to produce the highest quality and most complete version of this iconic classic. 

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Silver Salt have regraded the colour and restored missing frames.​

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The film will then be available in HD Blu Ray in a new box set, with new documentary material and a selection of the best Halas & Batchelor short films.

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We are bringing the new 4K restoration of George Orwell's novella to ​Fête du cinéma d’Animation at Institut Francais, London for two screenings.

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Britain’s first animated feature film premiered in New York, reflecting its American financing and its role in the cultural Cold War. Yet the film remained firmly rooted in the British animation industry, while its themes of power, corruption and the manipulation of truth remain strikingly relevant.

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Light cinemas across the UK will be screening Animal Farm in its newly restored 4K format. Screenings will take place in Addlestone, Banbury, Bolton, Bradford, Cambridge, Huddersfield, New Brighton, Redhill, Sheffield, Sittingbourne, Stockport, Thetford, Walsall and Wisbeach.

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We are delighted that the newly restored Animal Farm will screen as part of the International Film Festival Glasgow on 15 November at the Grosvenor Cinema. ​

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The newly restored version of 'Animal Farm' is now available to preorder. The discs will release on 23 November.

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You can preorder your copy of the film

in 4K UHD format here, or blu-ray format here

We will present a special screening of the newly restored 4K version of 'Animal Farm' at Depot Lewes. The screening will nclude a Q&A with Vivien Halas (Daughter of Directors, Joy Batchelor & John Halas), hosted by Isabel Stevens (Sight & Sound) ​

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Screenings of Halas & Batchelor films as part of their 'Britain's Pioneers in Animation: The Story of Halas & Batchelor' programme, featuring:
Animal Farm  (1954)

Shoemaker and the Hatter (1949)

Speed to the Plough (1956)

HIstory of the Cinema (1957)