Books currently in print

Halas & Batchelor Cartoons
an animated History

Vivien Halas and Paul Wells
Southbank Publishing, October 2006
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Timing for Animation

Harold Whitaker and John Halas
Focal Press, London 1981
Reprinted 1990, 1997, 1999, 2000,
2001, 2002
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Orwell Subverted

Daniel Leab, 2007
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British animation: The Channel 4 factor

Clare Kitson http://parliamenthillpublishing.co.uk/

Books out of print

How to Cartoon

John Halas and Bob Privitt
Focal Press, London 1959

Design in Motion

John Halas
Studio Vista, London 1962

Film and TV Graphics

John Halas and Walter Herdeg
Graphis Press Geneva 1968

The Technique of Film Animation

John Halas and Roger Manvell
Focal Press London 1969

Art in Movement

John Halas and Roger Manvell)
Studio Vista, London 1970

Computer Animation

John Halas
Focal Press, London 1974

Visual Scripting

John Halas
Focal Press, London 1975

The Great Movie Cartoon Parade

John Halas and David Rider
Crown, New York 1976

Film animation, a simplified approach

UNESCO, Paris London 1976

Full length animated feature film

Bruno Edera, edited by John Halas
Focal Press, London 1977

Graphics in Motion

John Halas
Novum Press, Bruckmann, Munich, 1981

Masters of Animation

John Halas
BBC Books, London 1987

The Contemporary Animator

Focal Press London and USA, 1990