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New Wallace and Gromit Shorts

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-get dept.

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."

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  1. Here's a by oever · · Score: 5, Informative

    more convenient link

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  2. The players and club by MosesJones · · Score: 5, Informative

    Stanley Matthews, Tom Finney and Nobby Stiles and of course the club in question Preston North End

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  3. Re:Not Linux compatible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's quicktime actually, and here are the direct links
    Broadband Version
    56K Version

  4. awesomely detailed sets by simong_oz · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

    The short is great ... can't wait for the new film!

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  5. Re:Wallace eyes the export market... by Quaryon · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

    Q.

  6. Re:Quicktime not Real... by pldms · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's the infernal Sorenson 3 (IIRC xine can play the other sorenson codecs, yes?). So here is the:

    Obligatory link to the crossover plugin. Very good etc

    But QT6 does support mpeg 4 (as was said). We just need some way to make people use it.

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  7. Nobby Stiles... by MosesJones · · Score: 5, Informative

    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 :-)

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  8. Download the clips here: by Antity · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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