A Grand Day Out

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A Grand Day Out is a 1989 British stop-motion animated short film directed, animated and co-written by Nick Park. Produced at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield and Aardman Animations in Bristol, it is the first installment in the Wallace & Gromit series. The film centres on eccentric yet good-natured inventor Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis) and his mute but intelligent pet dog, Gromit, who decide to build a home-made rocket ship and make a trip to the moon in search of cheese. Park started creating A Grand Day Out in 1982 as a graduation project for the National Film & Television School. In 1985, Aardman took him on before he finished the piece, allowing him to work on it part-time while still being funded by the school. Park wrote to Sallis asking him to voice Wallace. He initially sought for Gromit to have a voice, but ultimately decided to keep the character mute. Julian Nott scored the film. A Grand Day Out debuted on 4 November 1989, at an animation festival...

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