Halas & Batchelor: Charley Junior's Schooldays (1949) | BFI National Archive

'The COI Collection Volume Eight: Your Children and You' is available on 2-disc BFI DVD from 15 April - http://www.bfi.org.uk/blu-rays-dvds/c... Charley Junior's Schooldays was the seventh in a series of eight public information films designed to convey key facts about the Labour government's social reforms in the immediate postwar period. Here, animation company Halas & Batchelor's trademark fusion of clarity of expression and humour is the vehicle for some quite dense information about the proposed radical reforms to the British schools system. The changes were first conceived in the Education Act 1944, devised by Conservative education minister Rab Butler. Read more about the work of Halas & Batchelor at BFI Screenonline - http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people... All titles on the BFI Films channel are preserved in the vast collections of the BFI National Archive. To find out more about the Archive visit http://www.bfi.org.uk/archive-collect...