In mid 70s John Halas bought back Halas & Batchelor and continued to produce a steady output of animated films, some sponsored, for the COI, UNICEF, UNESCO; 

some more personal, such as Children Making Cartoons 1973 and increasingly made as co-productions looking towards the rest of Europe with Italy, Corona Cinematografica, European Fairy Tales 1974, France, Idéfix, The Twelve Tasks of Asterix 1973 and Germany, Polymedia with the series of Wilhelm Busch’s satirical tales of Max and Moritz 1976.