Roger halas and biography
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George Halas
- RF
- B/T: S/R
- 6' 0"/164
Career Regular Season
| AB | AVG | HR | RBI | SB | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | .091 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .182 |
George Halas Bio
- Fullname: George Stanley Halas
- Born: 2/02/1895 in Chicago, IL
- College: Illinois
- Debut: 5/06/1919
- Died: 10/31/1983
| Year | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | AVG | OBP | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Career Regular Season | 22 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .091 | .182 |
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Halas and Batchelor
British animation company
Halas and Batchelor was a British animation company founded by husband and wife John Halas and Joy Batchelor. Halas was a Hungarian émigré to the United Kingdom. The company had studios in London and Cainscross, in the Stroud District of Gloucestershire.[1]
History
From 1936, John Halas ran a small animation unit that created commercials for theatrical distribution. Joy Batchelor, who already had experience in animation, began working with Halas in 1938 after she responded to Halas's advertisement for an assistant, and they founded Halas and Batchelor in 1940 to create war information and propaganda films.[2][3][4] Approximately 70 films were created for the Ministry of Information, the War Office, and the Admiralty over the course of World War II; most of these were shorts intended to improve morale or spur on increased contributions to the war effort, such as Dustbin Parade, about recycling, and Filling the Gap, about gardening. Halas and Batchelor also created a series of a
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John Halas was born in Budapest on 16 April 1912; Joy Batchelor in Watford, Hertfordshire, on 22 May 1914. The couple initially worked as a graphic design partnership in the pre-war period and married in 1940, when they also founded the Halas and Batchelor studio to make animated advertisements for clients of the J. Walter Thompson agency, such as Kelloggs and Lux. Their work was immediately identifiable by its combination of Disney-style characters and Eastern European aesthetics (largely a product of Halas's training under former Bauhaus tutors, Alexander Bortnyik and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy). The Ministry of Information, recognising the capacity of animated films to entertain as well as educate, invited the couple to make wartime public information and propaganda shorts. Dustbin Parade (1941), about re-cycling materials for munitions, and Filling the Gap (1941), concerning the effective deployment of garden space for growing vegetables and other foodstuffs, are two examples of the seventy artful but highly engaging cartoon films made by the studio addressi
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