A cheerful cartoon man teaches you about concrete and zoning laws. Unironically riveting.
Writing
Script makes town planning feel like a pep rally.
Director
Joy Batchelor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Halas & Batchelor were Britain's answer to Disney, later making the first British animated feature 'Animal Farm' (1954). This was government-commissioned public information, essentially a charming explainer for the Welfare State.
The film promotes the 1946 New Towns Act, which built places like Stevenage and Milton Keynes. Charley's utopia is now critiqued as car-centric planning that fractured communities — history's irony hitting different in 8 minutes.
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