A Grand Day Out

Speaker:

• Wallace: Peter Sallis and Peter Kirchberger

Wallace & Gromit - Everything Cheese is an animated film by British filmmaker Nick Park Trick of 1989 The short film was produced by the film studio Aardman Animations and the National Film and Television School ( NFTS ). .

Action

The English inventor Wallace has fallen over the holidays in the preparations for a short break, he wants to compete with his faithful, silent dog Gromit. While he thinks about what he should choose travel destination, it is striking that in the house his favorite food, cheese, is assumed. Instead of being satisfied only with crackers and tea, Wallace decides to choose a destination that has cheese in abundance. Because everyone knows that the moon is made of cheese, such as Wallace explains his dog, the inventor builds unceremoniously in the basement a rocket, both will bring to the desired destination.

In fact, their plan is successful and both make the trip to the rocket. Once on the moon, Wallace and Gromit picnic and taste of the heavenly bodies, the taste of which they can not assign them famous cheese. Looking for new picnic areas both meet on an old machine, in the Wallace throws a 10 - pence coin. The machine, which is responsible for guarding the moon, however, takes only a short time later on its operation. The machine, the dreams of the snow skiing encounters, Wallace and Gromit on rocket and finally to the two inhabitants of the earth. The machine tries Wallace with a blow from behind to incapacitate, but denied him the service. Only when Wallace puts another coin in the machine, the machine comes back to life and also tried to Wallace and Gromit in a place to get rocket. While inventors and dog desperately trying to launch the rocket, the machine provides access to the engine room of the rocket, but where he triggers an explosion that catapulted Wallace and Gromit back into space.

The machine remains sad, angry and frustrated on the Moon, where he, but after a short time of a few remaining pieces of debris of the rocket skis including ski poles tinkering and finally happily waving to the rocket. Wallace and Gromit return Meanwhile, in her home in the West Wallaby Street 62, back.

Genesis

The Briton Nick Park had been drawn as youth comics and dedicated at the age of 13 years, first working in the field of animated film. In 1982, the animators working on his first short film about the two characters Wallace & Gromit, the adventures of an English inventor and his silent and faithful dog. Originally Gromit, whose name derives from the park 's brother, an electrician, was inspired designed ( from the English word Grommet, which translates as " insulating " means ), are shown as cat, but then this idea was discarded and the character was a talking dog, the born 1924, British actor Peter Hawkins should lend his voice. But after it became clear that the dogs figure through a few changes of eye, ear and eyebrow games received strong expressiveness, Hawkins has never been used for the films. For the voice of Wallace, born 1921 English actor Peter Sallis has been committed. For the German dubbing actor Peter Kirchberger was responsible. Kirchberger had lent his voice among others, in 150 episodes of the series protagonist Adam West Batman.

Wallace & Gromit - All cheese was originally supposed to Nick Park as a thesis for his education at the National Film and Television School. Even before the short film was completed after six years of work, the park has been committed by Aardman Animations. The film production company, which was founded in 1972 by unemployed art student Peter Lord and David Spraxton, allowed parking in addition to studying at the film continue to work, which was completed in 1989 and its history is mainly built to the design of the rocket, animate the Briton wanted. This park used the elaborate stop-motion technique with plasticine modeling clay on a structure made ​​of wire frames and plastic. At this time a full day of shooting was needed for about three seconds of film.

On 10 October 2005, shortly before premiere of the feature film Wallace & Gromit: On the hunt for the giant rabbit, the archive of the Aardman studios in Bristol completely destroyed by a fire, which in addition to the props of the movie Chicken Run - Hennen Race (2000 ) also those of all cheese fell victim.

Reception

Nick Park's short film was shown in 1989 in the UK with success at the British Short Film Festival. The critics praised Wallace & Gromit - All cheese and a year later, on December 24, 1990, the work premiered on British television. On the hunt: - The Wrong Trousers (1993) and Wallace & Gromit - In sheep (1995), and in 2005 the cinema adventures of the two title characters, Wallace & Gromit Had Aardman Animation earlier mainly engaged in contract work, as Wallace & Gromit now emerged of the Were- Rabbit. At the same time plasticine figures made ​​for the receipt of Wensleydale cheese, a British hard cheese from cow's milk. They had made ​​the Wensleydale to Wallace's and Gromit's favorite meal, because the creator felt the face of Wallace when pronouncing the name as much to look at. The cheese company could deny the success of the films and the increase in sales bankruptcy and slip back into the black.

In the fall of 1994, the short film was together with Wallace & Gromit - The published Aardman Collection - The Wrong Trousers, and a number of other selected Aardman short films in German cinemas than 77 -minute feature film Wallace & Gromit. Although the critics were full of praise, remained from the hoped-for financial success. More than a year later, at Christmas 1995, the two short films were first aired on ZDF, but in the children's program from 13 clock, an event that was criticized in the media and by the daily newspaper then asked the question why his ZDF jewel in the children's program hide and not get into the evening program.

Reviews

" [ ... ] Mr. Park A Grand Day Out is an easy rampant foray for an animated film. But he introduces a couple of promising figures, the plan apparently the filmmakers to obtain -. , An eccentric bachelor - inventor named Wallace and his faithful, mechanically clever pooch, Gromit "

" Great quality parks is in the details, as already " proves all cheese " [ ... ]. Movement sequences that act out of true at first glance, to develop its own formal language and the subtle humor often arises only after some delay. "No crackers, Gromit, hold on! ", The reaction of the dog out of suspense, whether it creates Wallace in the rocket, that's all slapstick first order. The lone oven on the moon, the realized finally his dream of skiing, is a touching Altmetalltausendsassa. In his charge is infinite space as well as in parks imagination. The goodbye is difficult, both from satellites and its unique residents as well as by the two heroes. "

Awards

Nick Park's film won the 1990 British Academy Film Award for Best Animated Short Film. At the Academy Awards in 1991 Wallace & Gromit subject - Everything cheese farms in the same year entstandenem 5 - minute film Creature Comforts, in the wild animals on their everyday Zoo report.

• Nominated in the category " Best Animated Short Film "

• Best Animated Short Film

• Jury Award