Halas and bachelor biography sample

John Halas was born in Budapest on 16 April ; Joy Batchelor in Watford, Hertfordshire, on 22 May The couple initially worked as a graphic design partnership in the pre-war period and married in , when they also founded the Halas and Batchelor studio to make animated advertisements for clients of the J.

Walter Thompson agency, such as Kelloggs and Lux. Their work was immediately identifiable by its combination of Disney-style characters and Eastern European aesthetics (largely a product of Halas's training under former Bauhaus tutors, Alexander Bortnyik and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy).

The Ministry of Information, recognising the capacity of animated films to entertain as well as educate, invited the couple to make wartime public information and propaganda shorts. Dustbin Parade (), about re-cycling materials for munitions, and Filling the Gap (), concerning the effective deployment of garden space for growing vegetables and other foodstuffs, are two examples of th