National Film and Television School Aardman Animations
Distributed by
National Film and Television School[1]
Release date
4 November 1989 (1989-11-04)
Running time
23 minutes[2]
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Budget
£11,000[3]
A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit, later marketed as A Grand Day Out, is a 1989[4] British stop-motion animated short film starring Wallace and 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.
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^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!
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