Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers (1993)

Director:

Nick Park

Writers:

Nick Park (written by) &
Bob Baker (written by) ...
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Release Date:

17 December 1993 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Short | Comedy | Crime | Family

Tagline:

From the makers of Chicken Run.

Plot:

Wallace is used by a criminal penguin in a robbery involving mechanical trousers.

Plot Keywords:

Penguin | Trousers | Robbery | Dog | Wallace And Gromit

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 9 wins

Cast

Peter Sallis

...

Wallace (voice)

Directed by
Nick Park

Writing credits
Nick Park		(written by) &
Bob Baker		(written by)
Brian Sibley		(additional contributions by)
Nick Park		(characters)

Produced by
Peter Lord	....	executive producer
Christopher Moll	....	producer
Colin Rose	....	executive producer: BBC
Peter Salmon	....	executive producer: BBC
David Sproxton	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Julian Nott

Film Editing by
Helen Garrard

Art Direction by
Yvonne Fox

Production Management
Peter Thornton	....	production manager

Art Department
Geoff Bevins	....	characters & props
Trisha Budd	....	characters & props
Tim Farrington	....	scenic artist
Richard Higgs	....	graphic design
Phil Lewis	....	assistant art director: sets
John Parsons	....	characters & props
Jan Sanger	....	characters & props
Ian Whitlock	....	assistant art director: props
John Wright	....	characters & props

Sound Department
Harvey Lilley	....	dialogue dubbing editor
Bill Morgan	....	sound effects recording
Adrian Rhodes	....	dubbing editor
Aad Wirtz	....	dubbing mixer
Chris Nuttall	....	post-sound assistant (uncredited)

Visual Effects by
Zachary Bloom	....	scanning and recording: Framestore
Craig Chandler	....	optical effects
Peter Wignall	....	optical effects supervisor
Tony Willis	....	effects cameraman (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Tristan Oliver	....	photography
Dave Alex Riddett	....	photography

Animation Department
Steve Box	....	animation
Tom Gasek	....	additional animator
Arril Johnson	....	additional animator
Peter Lord	....	additional animator
Nick Park	....	animation
Peter Thornton	....	additional animator

Editorial Department
Tamsin Parry	....	trainee assistant editor
Jason Wheeler	....	negative cutter (uncredited)

Music Department
Nic Raine	....	orchestrator (uncredited)
Simon Rhodes	....	music scoring mixer (uncredited)
John Philip Sousa	....	music: "The Honors March " (uncredited)

Other crew
Jason Marshall	....	production assistant

Production Companies

• Aardman Animations (as An Aardman Animations Production)
• BBC Bristol (in association with) (as B B C B R I S T O L)
• Wallace & Gromit (in association with) (as Wallace & Gromit Ltd)
• BBC Lionheart Television (in association with) (as B B C Lionheart Television)
• Children's BBC International (in assocation with) (as Children's International BBC)

Distributors

• British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (1993) (UK) (TV)
• BBC Bristol (1993) (UK) (TV)
• Alta Films (1995) (Spain) (theatrical)
• CBS/Fox Home Video (1995) (USA) (VHS)
• Lumière Home Entertainment (2010) (Netherlands) (DVD) (Blu-ray) (Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Collection)
• Lumière Home Entertainment (2010) (Netherlands) (DVD) (Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Collection)
• Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) (1993) (USA) (TV)

Other Companies

• Aardman Animations  special thanks (as The Staff of Aardman Animations)
• Cod Steaks  sets
• Programme MEDIA de la Communauté Européenne  this film received assistance from CARTOON within the framework of (as the MEDIA programme of the Commission of the European Communities)

Also Known As:

"The Wrong Trousers" - UK (short title)
"As Calças Erradas" - Portugal
"De ustyrlige teknobukser" - Denmark
"Fel brallor" - Sweden
"I pantaloni sbagliati" - Italy
"Los pantalones equivocados" - Spain
"Nesprávné kalhoty" - Czech Republic
"Väärät housut" - Finland
"Wallace & Gromit - Die Techno-Hose" - Germany
"Wallace & Gromit - Robotbuksene" - Norway (imdb display title)
"Wallace & Gromit: As Calças Erradas" - Brazil
"Wallace & Gromit: Le mauvais pantalon" - France
"Wallace & Gromit: Los pantalones equivocados" - Argentina
"Wallace és Gromit: A bolond nadrág" - Hungary (imdb display title)
"Wsciekle gacie" - Poland

Runtime:

30 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby (as Dolby Stereo)

Certification:

Finland:S | Brazil:Livre | Argentina:Atp | Iceland:L | South Korea:All | Netherlands:AL | UK:U (video rating) (1994) | Australia:G | Portugal:M/6 | Spain:T | UK:U | USA:Unrated

Company:

Aardman Animations

Trivia:

The rubber glove that Feathers uses to cover his head has only 4 fingers (as is common in animation) despite the fact that Wallace and all humans in other Wallace and Gromit films have 5 fingers on each hand.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Gromit is getting ready to go into the bathroom in the morning, Wallace passes him fully-clothed and says, "Good Morning, Gromit." The next shot shows Wallace back in his bath-robe blow-drying his bald head.

Quotes:

Wallace:Cracking toast, Gromit!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Comic Relief 2003: The Big Hair Do (2003) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree

Claymation Spectacular

A prodigy of animation, "The Wrong Trousers" won the Oscar for best animated short. Nick Park is at fine shape here, as he displays not only the skill of his craft but also a narrative coherence and care that nearly overpasses the artistic talent. It's the advantage of stop-motion animation: each shot is carefully studied and considered, and the story moves forward having Gromit the dog as the main character, and he succeeds all the way in convincing us of his "acting skills", even though he doesn't say one word or make one sound. The film has a great plot: Wallace and Gromit are forced to let a room, and a grim penguin applies for it. Soon, the intruder takes over the house and replaces Gromit as Wallace's best friend. But there is more than meets the eye, and the rest of the story is too good to be spoiled. Constructing suspense to the very end, with hair-raising sequences until the last spectacular showdown and applying all the formulae that make a god movie, this is animation on the top of its game, and a great opportunity to see just how much you can raise the bar on claymation short features. Talent has never been so evident.