Handling Ships is a cartoon film of John Halas carried out with the the United Kingdom in 1945.

Financed by the Admiralty, the equivalent of the staff of the French Navy, this film with didactic aiming was not projected in rooms and was not intended to be it. Apparently satisfied with this tool for formation, Admiralty will ask for the realization of a continuation, Submarine Control .

Handling Ships is the first British feature-length film of animation in Technicolor.

It is only in 1954 that John Halas and his wife Joy Batchelor will approach the feature-length film of animation of fiction, with the Farm of the animals , according to George Orwell.

Synopsis

As its title suggests it, this teaching film is a guide of very precise navigation. The most complex operations are explained and put in scene using diagrams and of models in three dimensions.

Data sheet

• Realization: John Hauled and Alan Crick
• Scénario: Alan Crick
• Production: Hauled and Batchelor Cartoon Films and The Admiralty (Ministry for the Navy)
• Durée: 70 minutes
• Colors: Technicolor

See too

• List of the feature-length films of animation

External bonds

• Card IMDb
• Card Toonhound

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