The beloved characters Wallace & Gromit first appeared in Nick Park and Steve Rushton's 1989 stop-motion-animated short film "A Grand Day Out," a whimsical comedy about the human Wallace (Peter Sallis) and his non-speaking dog Gromit inventing a rocket ship to travel to the moon. Wallace is the world's most passionate cheese enthusiast, you see, and he knows the moon is made of cheese. When they arrive on the moon, Wallace and Gromit find that it is indeed made of cheese, while the surface is being protected by a coin-operated sentient vending machine. They witlessly evade capture for the bulk of the film. "A Grand Day Out" was slick and funny enough to get an Oscar nomination, only losing to "Creature Comforts," another stop-motion-animated short directed by Park for the same studio, Aard

See Full Page