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A Close Shave is a 1995 British stop-motion animated short film co-written and directed by Nick Park and produced by Aardman Animations with Wallace & Gromit Ltd., BBC Bristol and BBC Children's International. It is the third film featuring Wallace & Gromit, following A Grand Day Out (1989) and The Wrong Trousers (1993).
A spin-off in the Wallace & Gromit franchise, the series focuses on the adventures of Shaun, the eponymous sheep previously starring in A Close Shave, as the leader of his flock on an English farm. The series premiered on 5 March 2007 on CBBC in the UK, also airing on BBC Two .
Wallace & Gromit is a British claymation comedy franchise created by Nick Park and produced by Aardman Animations.The series centres on Wallace, a good-natured, eccentric, cheese-loving inventor, and Gromit, his loyal and intelligent anthropomorphic beagle.
Aardman Animations Limited, stylised as AARDMAN since 2022, is a British animation studio based in Bristol.It is known for films and television series made using stop motion and clay animation techniques, particularly those featuring its plasticine characters from Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep, and Morph.
It is based on the British television series Shaun the Sheep, in turn a spin-off of the Wallace & Gromit film A Close Shave (1995). Starring the voices of Justin Fletcher , John Sparkes , and Omid Djalili , the film follows Shaun and his flock navigating the big city to save their amnesiac farmer, while an overzealous animal control worker ...
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"A Close Shave" David Mitton: Duck and the Diesel Engine by Rev. W. Awdry: 5 November 1986 () "A Close Shave for Duck" 41: 15 "Better Late Than Never" David Mitton: More About Thomas the Tank Engine by Christopher Awdry: 12 November 1986 () 42: 16 "Break Van" David Mitton: The Twin Engines by Rev. W. Awdry: 12 November 1986 ()
The article suggested that Gromit's sidecar/plane escape was a direct reference to the opening sequence of the Bond film Goldeneye. This is highly unlikely as Goldeneye did not open in cinemas until November 16, 1995, a matter of weeks before A Close Shave was first broadcast (December 24, 1995). The stop-motion techniques are well known to ...