Wallace & Gromit Short Films

Wallace and Gromit is a British stop-motion animated comedy franchise created by Nick Park and produced by Aardman Animations. The main film series consist of four short films and two feature-length films, and has spawned numerous spin-offs and TV adaptations.

The films have received universal acclaim, with the first three short films, A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave earning 100% on Rotten Tomatoes; the feature film Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit has also received acclaim: it is the second-highest-grossing stop-motion animated film, only outgrossed by Chicken Run, another creation of Park's. A fourth short film, A Matter of Loaf and Death, was released in 2008.

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A Grand Day Out

Wallace and Gromit enjoy a day out with a difference when a quest to find cheese prompts a visit to the moon. Despite a few hiccups with their homemade rocket, the duo makes a successful lunar landing, arriving just in time for lunch. But a strange, mechanical being isn’t too happy to see Wallace eating slices of moon cheese...

With just moments to spare, Wallace and Gromit make it back to the safety of their rocket before the Cooker dishes out its punishment. The machine has spotted Wallace’s skiing brochure and is captivated…that looks fun! But as Wallace and Gromit make their escape, it seems the Cooker’s dreams of mountains and apres-ski will never be realised…but hang on, what are those two metal things that have fallen from the rocket? Alone on the moon once more, the Cooker attaches two pieces of metal to its feet and lunar skiing is born!

The Wrong Trousers

In this second Wallace & Gromit adventure, released in 1993, Gromit finds himself being pushed out of his room and home by a devious new lodger, Feathers McGraw. A ruthless criminal (and a penguin cunningly disguised as a chicken), he’s planning a robbery and needs to use Wallace and his mechanical remote controlled trousers to pull off the raid. However, Gromit is wise to the penguin and comes to the rescue. Will he be able to stop the feathered fiend?

When money troubles prompt Wallace to take in a lodger, life at West Wallaby Street gets complicated for poor Gromit. Forced out of his room to make way for a cool-as-a-cucumber penguin called Feathers McGraw, it’s not long before he feels well and truly usurped as Wallace’s faithful companion.

There’s something not right about this penguin and when Gromit spots a ‘Wanted’ poster for a criminal ‘chicken’, it would seem his suspicions are correct. Meanwhile, the helpless Wallace finds himself under Feathers’ control – quite literally! The dastardly penguin has adapted Wallace’s Techno Trousers for his latest heist and he’s going to get Wallace to carry out his dirty work…

A Matter of Loaf and Death

Another day dawns at West Wallaby Street and Wallace and Gromit are up with the birds, making bread for their latest enterprise – the ‘Top Bun’ bakery. With robotic kneading arms in place (another of Wallace’s madcap inventions) and a windmill on the roof, they’ve got a very professional set-up going. But there’s just one problem – the other local bakers in the town have been ‘disappearing’ one by one…could Wallace be the next one to go?
But with his sights set on winning the affections of former ‘Bake-O-Lite’ beauty Piella Bakewell, Wallace is oblivious to any danger and gets on with romancing Piella while Gromit turns canine sleuth in a bid to ensure Wallace doesn’t become the final member of the ‘Baker’s Dozen’..

Nick Park and
Julian Nott

Nick Park is a four time Academy Award® winner, three in the category of Best Animated Short Film - Creature Comforts, Wallace & Gromit films The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave and Best Animated Feature Film for Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

All four films were created and produced at Aardman, in Bristol, where Park is a director.

Julian Nott has written the music for all the Wallace & Gromit films, including the theme tune and original score for A Grand Day Out, created when he and Nick Park were students together at the National Film and Television School. His music goes with Nick’s films brilliantly – rather like cheese and crackers!

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A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers and A Matter of Loaf and Death films and accompanying scores are now available for orchestras and venues to hire worldwide.

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