Information
- BFI identifier798206
- Date1959 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- Work historySeries of animated films by Halas and Batchelor. Capitalised as 'HaBa Tales'. Reissued in tinted versions c1980 under the grouping Tele-Tale Cartoon
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Title
Haba Tales (Original)
Habatales (Alternative)
Tele-Tale Cartoons (Alternative)
Category
Fiction- Collections
- Film / VideoFor details of BFI holdings, see individual episodic Works in the Hierarchy Display.
- Scripts / DocumentsHaba Tales - Series of six animated films by Halas and Batchelor, giving a comic twist to modern fables. The series contains the following titles The Lion Tamer; Hairy Hercules; The Cultured Ape; The Insolent Matador; The Widow and the Pig; I Wanna Mink. Directed by Harold Whitaker and Tony Guy; produced by John Halas; designed by Alan Smith; animation by Harold Whitaker and John Smith; music by Matyas Seiber [Sometimes capitalised as 'HaBa Tales'] Reissued in tinted versions c.1980 under the grouping Tele-Tale Cartoon - HAB-1-56
Contracts and publicity - Various draft contracts, legal papers and publicity material for the series as a whole c. 1959 - 1976 - HAB-1-56-1
Document: legal - Draft agreement between Halas & Batchelor Cartoon Films Ltd and Iris Productions Ltd relating to the 'production and distribution of two series, each of thirty nine films entitled Habatales', 1 March 1939 - HAB-1-56-1-1
Document: legal - Draft agreement between Halas & Batchelor Cartoon Film Ltd and Iris Productions Ltd stating that they should produce and deliver 'two series of thirty nine films intended primarily for television transmission', 13 May 1960 - HAB-1-56-1-2
Document: legal - File containing: - draft agreement between Associated British Pathe Ltd and Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films Ltd regarding distribution, 2 March 1965 - letter of amendment to the above, 22 July 1966 - HAB-1-56-1-3
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Series Work - 798206 - 1959 (Release)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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