Wallace & Gromit - The Techno Pants
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German title | Wallace & Gromit - The Techno Pants | ||
Original title | Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers | ||
Country of production | Great Britain | ||
original language | English | ||
Publishing year | 1993 | ||
length | 30 minutes | ||
Age rating | FSK 6 | ||
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Director | Nick Park | ||
script |
Nick Park , Bob Baker |
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production |
Peter Lord , Christopher Moll , David Sproxton |
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music | Julian Nott | ||
camera |
Tristan Oliver , Dave Alex Riddett |
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cut | Helen Garrard | ||
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Speaker: English, German
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Wallace & Gromit - Die Techno-Hose is a clay animation film by Nick Park and his company Aardman Animations from 1993. It is the studio's second longer production with the two characters after Wallace & Gromit - Alles cheese from 1989. The film was featured Stop-motion technique created, the figures are made of plasticine.
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The somewhat eccentric inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit live in a cozy house in a small English town. On Gromit's birthday it turns out once again that Mr. Wallace doesn't have a good feel for his companion: He not only gives him a brand new dog collar, of all things, but also a pair of techno pants. This fully automatically programmable metal structure is basically only of use for Wallace, as he can now save himself walking with Gromit. However, you can also go up on smooth walls using the suction feet of the device.
Meanwhile, a lot of bills need to be paid, but money is tight. Wallace therefore takes in a seedy penguin as a lodger, who brazenly nests in Gromit's room. Gromit quickly becomes suspicious, especially since the penguin is a little too deliberately popular with Wallace. Gromit secretly searches the weird bird's room and discovers his plan: he wants to rob a museum with the help of Wallace and the techno pants.
But Gromit cannot prevent the robbery. The penguin pisses the sleeping Wallace in his pants at night and dismantles the manual controls. Wallace is now, asleep and remote-controlled by the penguin, stealing a valuable diamond in the museum. The building alarm goes off and Wallace wakes up, but there is nothing he can do. Only back at home does the penguin reveal his true identity as a notorious criminal and lock Wallace in a closet, still in his dismantled pants. Gromit is also arrested there by the penguin. The bird flees.
Now Gromit uses his technical understanding to reactivate the pants. Wallace and Gromit manage to break out of the closet. They can finally catch the penguin in a chase on Wallace's toy train. Wallace and Gromit get a reward for capturing the penguin and the criminal bird ends up behind bars in the zoo again. The pants, thrown in the garbage by the two protagonists, end up becoming independent and wandering towards the sunset.
Awards
The short film won both an Oscar for best animated short film and a BAFTA award in 1994 . In addition, he won awards at several other smaller film festivals.