Significance
After the war, Handling Ships was entered in the 1946 Cannes Film Festival, where it was a short film "Official Selection".
The work proved the value of stop motion animation for instructional films, and the ability of the studio of Halas and Batchelor at making them, as they were said to have "extended the medium to explain complex ideas with clarity and humour". In 1948, the Home Office commissioned a feature length training film, Waterford Fire Fighting. This was followed in 1949 by another film for the Admiralty, Submarine Control, for submariner training. Halas and Batchelor were responsible for the animated feature film, Animal Farm. first released in the UK in 1954,
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