The
Halas&Batchelor Collection
Vivien Halas
Awards
History
Joy Batchelor
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Books
How to Cartoon
John Halas and Bob Privitt, Focal Press, London 1959
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Design in Motion
John Halas, Studio Vista, London 1962
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Film and TV Graphics
John Halas and Walter Herdeg, Graphis Press Geneva 1968
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The Technique of Film Animation
John Halas and Roger Manvell, Focal Press London 1969
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Art in Movement
John Halas and Roger Manvell, Studio Vista, London 1970
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Computer Animation
John Halas, Focal Press, London 1974
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Visual Scripting
John Halas, Focal Press, London 1975
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The Great Movie Cartoon Parade
John Halas and David Rider, Crown, New York 1976
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Film animation, a simplified approach
UNESCO, Paris London 1976
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Full length animated feature film
Bruno Edera, edited by John Halas, Focal Press, London 1977
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Graphics in Motion
John Halas, Novum Press, Bruckmann, Munich, 1981
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Masters of Animation
John Halas, BBC Books, London 1987
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The Contemporary Animator
Focal Press London and USA, 1990
The Illustrated Animal Farm, 70th anniversary edition
Illustrated by Joy Batchelor and John Halas, Penguin Books, 2015
Out of print
Orwell Subverted
by Daniel Leab, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007
Related subjects
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Halas & Batchelor Cartoons, an animated history
by Vivien Halas and Paul Wells, Southbank Publishing 2006
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The book includes a DVD containing: Magic Canvas (1948), The Figurehead (1953), The History of the Cinema (1957), Automania 2000 (1963), The Symphony Orchestra (1964), Dilemma (1981) and Know your Europeans (1995).
A Moving Image, Joy Batchelor 1914 - 91, artist, writer and animator
by Vivien Halas with contributions from film and animation experts, Southbank Publishing 2014
Timing for Animation
by Harold Whitaker and John Halas, Focal Press, London 1981
Reprinted 1990, 1997, 1999, 2000,
2001, 2002, 2009 and 2021 updated to include digital animation by Tom Sito
British animation: The Channel 4 factor
by Clare Kitson, Parliament Hill Publishing, 2008
Hard cover edition of 'Animal Farm' (in Korean)
Illustrated by Joy Batchelor, BIR Publishing, 2020