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New Wallace and Gromit Shorts
disco_stu00 writes "Aardman Animations has produced 10 new one-minute Wallace and Gromit shorts entitled Cracking Contraptions in preparation and training for the upcoming feature length film. BBC News has the first short available for download."
more convenient link
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Stanley Matthews, Tom Finney and Nobby Stiles and of course the club in question Preston North End
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
It's quicktime actually, and here are the direct links
Broadband Version
56K Version
baaaah!
I wonder if they'll be able to create another character that mass-appealing. Especially for the ladies.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only male person with a Wallace and Gromit Shaving Set.
By the way, they're already working on a video game. Creepy.
The "official" website for the series.
The National Museum of Photography, Film and Television , in Bradford actually has a couple of the sets from the Wallace and Gromit films. They are only about 2m x 2m in size, but the attention to detail is absolutely amazing. It really brought home just how special the work these guys do is.
... can't wait for the new film!
The short is great
"Because it's there." - George Mallory, when asked why he wanted to climb Mt Everest, March 18, 1923 (New York Times)
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It may be a Brit invention, but the term "soccer" is not really in general use over here. We just call it "football", since it involves regular contact between the foot and the ball...
I believe it was originally coined as a shortened form of "association football" to differentiate the game from "rugby football" ("rugger"). This we now just generally call "rugby", since it involves less contact between the foot and the ball.
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I suppose that means that there's no NTSC version of the tape. I guess I'll have to settle for having 'em online, then. Ah, well.
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Well you'll be glad to hear that Shaun makes an appearance in one of the shorts as reported by the BBC.
"Because it's there." - George Mallory, when asked why he wanted to climb Mt Everest, March 18, 1923 (New York Times)
It's the infernal Sorenson 3 (IIRC xine can play the other sorenson codecs, yes?). So here is the:
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But QT6 does support mpeg 4 (as was said). We just need some way to make people use it.
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See the link above, he was a World Cup (a competition involving the majority of the world's countries) winner in 1966 for England.
:-)
If it had been a real Nobby Stiles he would have run at Gromit, jumped on him two footed then punched him. Nobby wasn't the most elegant player in the world
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
Look at the wall of Gromit's cell for "Feathers Was 'Ere", in reference to the evil penguin (Feathers McGraw) from The Wrong Trousers.
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Since BBC only seems to support "in-browser" playback (and needs popup windows to be enabled - buah)... Here are the download links, extracted and reassembled:
Have fun.
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Maybe the word is british, frankly I don't care.
The oldset football club in the world is Sheffield FC (nb FC is for Football Club not SC for soccer club) and was founded in 1857. We've been calling it football ever since then. Look at the names of the official orgs. The FA (football association), UEFA, (Union of European Football Associations), FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) etc. None of whom have "Soccer" in their names. I thank you.
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Of course, "Wallace & Gromit" is rhyming slang for "vomit."
But how many people knew that it was originally the name of a wassail?
(How many care?)
Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachtani?
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i know amazon is the trendy mall of the internet and all, but they have a damn good selection, i'm not sure if this is what you wanted but here are ntsc dvds of Creature Comforts(four shorts; Creature Comforts, Wat's Pig, Not Without My Handbag and Adam) and The Incredible Adventures of Wallace and Gromit (the original three shorts)
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