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| A Grand Day Out | |
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 North American VHS cover | |
| Directed by | Nick Park |
| Written by | Nick Park Steve Rushton |
| Produced by | Rob Copeland |
| Starring | Peter Sallis |
| Cinematography | Nick Park |
| Edited by | Rob Copeland |
| Music by | Julian Nott |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | National Film and Television School[1] |
Release date |
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Running time | 23 minutes[2] |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £11,000[3] |
A Grand Day Out is a 1989[4] British stop-motion animated short film starring Wallace & Gromit. It was directed, animated and co-written by Nick Park at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield and Aardman Animations in Bristol.
A Grand Day Out debuted on 4 November 1989, at an animation festival at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol.[5][6][7][8] It was first broadcast on Christmas Eve 1990 on Channel 4.[9][10] It was followed by 1993's The Wrong Trousers, 1995's A Close Shave, 2005's The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and 2008's A Matter of Loaf and Death. A Grand Day Out was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1991.
- ^ "Annual Report 1990" (PDF). Channel 4. p. 20. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
- ^ "A Grand Day Out". BBFC.
- ^ Jeffries, Stuart (16 September 2005). "Lock up your vegetables!". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
- ^ "A Grand Day Out (1989)". British Film Forever. Archived from the original on 21 September 2015. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
- ^ Martins, Holly (September 2000). "13th BBC British Short Film Festival". Netribution. Archived from the original on 29 July 2001. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
- ^ Media Monkey (4 November 2009). "Wallace and Gromit's 20th birthday present from Google Doodle". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 4 March 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
Park unveiled Wallace and Gromit to an unsuspecting public on this day in 1989 at an animation festival at the Arnolfini gallery in Bristol.
- ^ "2012 Annual Review" (PDF). Encounters Film Festival. 2013. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 September 2015. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
Nick Park on A Grand Day Out when shown at Bristol Animation Festival in 1989
- ^ "Gromit! It has been 25 years". The Daily Telegraph. 4 November 2014. Archived from the original on 7 November 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
- ^ Midgley, Neil (26 November 2010). "Christmas telly is a reassuring British tradition". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
- ^ "A Grand Day Out". Wallace & Gromit. Archived from the original on 7 February 2008. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
A Grand Day Out was finally finished and transmitted on Channel 4 on Christmas Eve, 1990 – 6 years after production began!