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About Joy Batchelor
Joy Ethel Batchelor 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.
Everything about Joy Batchelor →- Occupation
- animator, screenwriter, film director, film producer
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- May 12, 1914, May 22, 1914
- Died
- May 14, 1991