A Close Shave
Wallace & Gromit - In Sheep is a British knetanimierter short film by Nick Park of 1995.
Action
It is night: Wallace sleeps peacefully while Gromit knitting. He stops in front of the domestic sheep, but he thinks nothing of it and knits on until the wool is all. The next morning the porridge machine goes crazy because a cable is chewed. From plants the leaves and also Wallace beloved cheese missing shows bite marks. From the culprit each track and also the unknown sheep thief, from the newspapers report the missing is not yet made. Time to think is not because Wendolene Ramsbottom calls from her wool shop, in order to engage both as a window cleaner.
Wallace, who actually wanted to buy wool for Gromit, falls in love Wendolene that has a fairly large dog named Preston. Gromit sees the dog and owner with skepticism and is happy to return home. There, however, chaos reigns and soon the culprit is found: A small sheep is in the house that Wallace "Shaun " and christens once and accidentally bathes easily sheared. Preston appears unnoticed and steals the blueprints for the washing and shearing machine. Soon he discovered Gromit in Wendolenes backyard a truck full of sheep, which he leaves open. He himself is kidnapped by Preston in the truck and taken a short time later by police as a sought sheep thief, and sentenced to a prison term. Wallace Gromit freed using all sheep from prison. Wallace and Gromit are finally witness how Wendolene Preston is forced to transfer all sheep on a pasture in a truck. Since she refuses to support the machinations Prestons further, it is also locked up in the truck. In a daring chase succeeds Wallace and Gromit first to create all sheep and Wendolene out of the truck on her bike, but land Wallace, Wendolene and the sheep at the end but in the truck, which is swallowed in the vicinity of the wool shop suddenly from the ground.
Gromit follows the trail finally in a factory that has been in the Preston recreated the washing and shearing machine of Wallace and supplemented by an oversized meat grinder. Wendolene Wallace and Gromit clarifies on: Preston is not a dog, but a robot in the form of dogs, which functioned normally at first, but now having a malfunction. Although all sheep, Wallace, Gromit and Wendolene look death in the face several times, he finally succeeds Shaun, Preston to bump into the meat grinder where his mechanics will be destroyed. For Wallace the happy ending has a bitter taste: It turns out that Wendolene has a cheese allergy.
Production
Wallace & Gromit - In sheep is a Knetanimationsfilm, which was filmed in stop-motion. He was after all cheese and The Wrong Trousers the third short film about inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit, and the first in which Wallace next to one other person spoke.
Wallace & Gromit - In sheep experienced at December 24, 1995 on BBC 2 's premiere.
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Awards
Wallace & Gromit - In sheep has been awarded more than a dozen international awards.
He won the 1996 Academy Award in the category " Best Animated Short Film ". At the Festival d' Annecy animation film 1997 won the Audience Prize and was honored at the 1996 BAFTA Awards with an award for the best animated short film.