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Release Date: 1989

Cast: Peter Sallis

Categories: Movies, Fantasy Adventure, Stop motion, Animation, Short Film, Comedy, Adventure Comedy, Fantasy

A Grand Day Out (full name A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit) is an award-nominated 1989 animated film directed and animated by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol. This was the first adventure featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace and his quiet but smart dog Gromit. Its sequels are 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. In the film, Wallace and Gromit spend a bank holiday by building a rocket to the Moon to sample some cheese. Nick Park started making the film in 1982 as his graduation... MORE

A Grand Day Out (full name A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit) is an award-nominated 1989 animated film directed and animated by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol. This was the first adventure featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace and his quiet but smart dog Gromit. Its sequels are 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. In the film, Wallace and Gromit spend a bank holiday by building a rocket to the Moon to sample some cheese. Nick Park started making the film in 1982 as his graduation project for the National Film and Television School. In 1985, Aardman Animations took him on before he finished the piece, allowing him to work on it part time while still being funded by the school. To make the film, Park wrote to William Harbutt's company, requesting a long ton of plasticine. The block he received had ten colours, one of which was called "stone"; he used this for Gromit. Park wanted to voice Gromit, but he realised the voice he had in mind – that of Peter Hawkins – would have been too difficult to animate. For Wallace, Park offered Peter Sallis £50 to voice the character, and his LESS