Halas & Batchelor Cartoons is an England-based animation studio, founded in 1940 and currently holds one of the most extensive animation collections in Western Europe. Halas & Batchelor were innovators in the field of animation from the 1940s into the 1970s. In their heyday, they produced over 2,000 animation projects. Halas & Batchelor Collection was founded in 1996 to preserve and conserve the contributions Halas & Batchelor made to the history of animation.