Documentary about the Hungarian expatriate who thoroughly changed the aesthetics of the British animation film. He was interested in Bauhaus, fine art and music and started out as an assistant to George Pal. With his wife Joy Batchelor, he set up a studio, where they made both self-initiated work and commissioned films. Halas also regularly published on animation. Amply provided with fragments from his work and interviews with colleagues, and John Halas also appears himself in archive footage. For example, he vividly recalls that he tried to persuade Picasso to make an animated film.

This program screened as part of HAFF 2013