A Grand Day Out

Not to be confused with Big Day Out.

A Grand Day Out
North American VHS cover
Directed byNick Park
Written byNick Park
Steve Rushton
Produced byRob Copeland
StarringPeter Sallis
CinematographyNick Park
Edited byRob Copeland
Music byJulian Nott
Production
companies
Distributed byNational Film and Television School[1]
Release date
  • 4 November 1989 (1989-11-04)
Running time
23 minutes[2]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£11,000[3]

A Grand Day Out is a 1989[4] British stop-motion animated short film starring Wallace & 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.

  1. ^ "Annual Report 1990" (PDF). Channel 4. p. 20. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  2. ^ "A Grand Day Out". BBFC.
  3. ^ Jeffries, Stuart (16 September 2005). "Lock up your vegetables!". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  4. ^ "A Grand Day Out (1989)". British Film Forever. Archived from the original on 21 September 2015. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  5. ^ Martins, Holly (September 2000). "13th BBC British Short Film Festival". Netribution. Archived from the original on 29 July 2001. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ "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
  8. ^ "Gromit! It has been 25 years". The Daily Telegraph. 4 November 2014. Archived from the original on 7 November 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  9. ^ Midgley, Neil (26 November 2010). "Christmas telly is a reassuring British tradition". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  10. ^ "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!