Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions (2002)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 2002
Running Times: 20 mins
Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound:

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Aardman Animations
Executive Producer: Peter Lord
Line Producer: Harry Linden

SCRIPT
Script: Merlin Crossingham (Turbo Diner); Seamus Malone (Tellyscope); Nick Park, Loyd Price, Christopher Sadler (Snowmanotron; Shopper 13); Christopher Sadler (Soccamatic; Snoozatron); Mike Salter (Autochef)

DIRECTION
Directors: Loyd Price, Christopher Sadler

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Andy MacCormack

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Negative Cutters: Cutting Edge

MUSIC
Music: Julian Nott

SOUND
Sound: James Mather

VOICES
Peter Sallis (Wallace)

PLOT SUMMARY

Wallace and Gromit test a series of their latest inventions. Inevitably, things never go quite to plan and the machines seem to have minds of their own...

AVAILABILITY

UK
Television Distributors: BBC

TIMELINE

2002
October
15: UK - video release

2003
April
15: Germany - shown at the Dresden Film Festival

June
Day Unknown: Canada - shown at the Worldwide Short Film Festival

July
12: Israel - shown at the Jerusalem Film Festival

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Wallacen ja Gromitin huippuhärveleitä - Finnish title

LINKS

SEE ALSO
A Close Shave (1995)
A Grand Day Out (1989)
Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
The Wrong Trousers (1993)

KEYWORDS

anthropomorphism, clay animation, dogs, inventions, inventors, machines, wallace and gromit

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009