behp0152t-john-halas-transcript [This transcript was kindly checked by John Halas’s daughter]NB: John Halas and Bob Godfrey were hamming it up a bit and having a laugh whilst conducting the interview. There is some license for exaggeration. DS 2021. The copyright of this recording is veste[…]
[…] and designer on various newspapers and magazines before meeting John Halas through a press advertisement for an animator. They married […]
[…]hat year would it have been when you first joined up with John?Joy Batchelor: Oh, '36 I think, '36 or '37.Kay Mander: So when did you actually set up Halas and Batchelor?Joy Batchelor: Not until 1940. He decided it would be a good idea to go back to Hungary where he knew the people. So we did that f[…]
[…]nd much nicer stuff has come out since. And this Bob was doing some verybright stuff during the war. But he was with... oh, that Hungarian man.[20:24]Halas and Batchelor’s?Halas and Batchelor during the war, and he did some very interesting, they did lots of cartoons, you know, for the COI I think a[…]