---
title: 'Handling Ships (1945)'
type: 'film'
director: 'John Halas'
released: '1945-01-01'
genres:
  - 'Documentary'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/handling-ships-1945'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145807/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Handling Ships (1945)

1945 · Documentary · United Kingdom


## Synopsis

Handling Ships is a 1945 British stop motion animated film made by Halas and Batchelor. The 70-minute film was created at the request of the British Admiralty, as a training aid for new navigators joining the Royal Navy. Although never formally released to cinemas because of its small target audience, Handling Ships was an "Official Selection" at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival, and is recognised as the first feature-length work, and the first work in Technicolor, in British animation history.

## Credits

- **Director:** [John Halas](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-halas)
- **Producer:** [John Halas](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-halas)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Ernst Hermann Meyer](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernst-hermann-meyer)

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