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Industry | Animation studio |
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Founded | 1940 |
Founder | John Halas, Joy Batchelor |
Defunct | 1986 |
Fate | Sold to Tyne Tees Television (early 1970s) |
Headquarters | London, Cainscross, United Kingdom |
Owner | John Halas and Joy Batchelor (until the beginning of the 70s) Tyne Tees Television (from the 70s until 1986) |
Halas and Batchelor was a British animation company founded by husband and wife John Halas and Joy Batchelor. Halas was a Hungarian émigré to the United Kingdom. The company had studios in London and Cainscross, in the Stroud District of Gloucestershire.[1]