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Adventure
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An adventure is an exciting or unusual experience. It may also be a bold, usually risky undertaking, with an uncertain outcome, adventures may be activities with some potential for physical danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting or participating in extreme sports. The term also refers to any enterprise that is potentially fraught with physical, financial or psychological risk, such as a business venture. Adventurous experiences create psychological arousal, which can be interpreted as negative or positive, for some people, adventure becomes a major pursuit in and of itself. According to adventurer André Malraux, in his La Condition Humaine, If a man is not ready to risk his life, similarly, Helen Keller stated that Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Outdoor adventurous activities are undertaken for the purposes of recreation or excitement, examples are adventure racing. Adventure education intentionally uses challenging experiences for learning, some of the oldest and most widespread stories in the world are stories of adventure such as Homers The Odyssey. The knight errant was the form the adventure seeker character took in the late Middle Ages, the adventure novel exhibits these protagonist on adventurous journey characteristics as do many popular feature films, such as Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Adventure books may have the theme of the hero or main character going to face the wilderness or Mother Nature, examples include books such as Hatchet or My Side of the Mountain. Many adventures are based on the idea of a quest, the hero goes off in pursuit of a reward, whether it be a skill, prize, on the way, the hero must overcome various obstacles. Mythologist Joseph Campbell discussed his notion of the monomyth in his book, many video games are adventure games. From ancient times, travelers and explorers have written about their adventures, journals which became best-sellers in their day were written, such as Marco Polos journal The Travels of Marco Polo or Mark Twains Roughing It. Others were personal journals, only published, such as the journals of Lewis. Documentaries often use the theme of adventure as well, there are many sports classified as adventure sports, due to their inherent danger and excitement. Some of these include mountain climbing, skydiving, or other extreme sports, list of genres Exploration Tourism Travel Sports Adventure travel What is an adventure. A definition of adventure, hero and epic with an illustration of the heros journey
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Comedy
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In a modern sense, comedy refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, and stand-up comedy. The origins of the term are found in Ancient Greece, in the Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a performance which pits two groups or societies against each other in an amusing agon or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a Society of Youth and a Society of the Old, a revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions that pose obstacles to his hopes. Satire and political satire use comedy to portray persons or social institutions as ridiculous or corrupt, parody subverts popular genres and forms, critiquing those forms without necessarily condemning them. Similarly scatological humour, sexual humour, and race humour create comedy by violating social conventions or taboos in comic ways, a comedy of manners typically takes as its subject a particular part of society and uses humor to parody or satirize the behaviour and mannerisms of its members. Romantic comedy is a genre that depicts burgeoning romance in humorous terms. The adjective comic, which means that which relates to comedy is, in modern usage. Of this, the word came into usage through the Latin comoedia and Italian commedia and has, over time. The Greeks and Romans confined their use of the comedy to descriptions of stage-plays with happy endings. Aristotle defined comedy as an imitation of men worse than the average, however, the characters portrayed in comedies were not worse than average in every way, only insofar as they are Ridiculous, which is a species of the Ugly. The Ridiculous may be defined as a mistake or deformity not productive of pain or harm to others, the mask, for instance, in the Middle Ages, the term expanded to include narrative poems with happy endings. It is in this sense that Dante used the term in the title of his poem, as time progressed, the word came more and more to be associated with any sort of performance intended to cause laughter. During the Middle Ages, the comedy became synonymous with satire. They disassociated comedy from Greek dramatic representation and instead identified it with Arabic poetic themes and forms and they viewed comedy as simply the art of reprehension, and made no reference to light and cheerful events, or to the troubling beginnings and happy endings associated with classical Greek comedy. After the Latin translations of the 12th century, the term gained a more general meaning in medieval literature. Starting from 425 BCE, Aristophanes, a playwright and satirical author of the Ancient Greek Theater wrote 40 comedies,11 of which survive. Aristophanes developed his type of comedy from the satyr plays
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Richard Starzak
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Richard Starzak, previously known as Richard Golly Goleszowski, is an English animator. Starzak was born in Suffolk in 1959 and grew up in Ipswich and his commercial work includes Domestos Big Dom, Grolsch, Cadbury’s Creme Eggs, Weetos and Maltesers and several European commercials. He then directed Robbie the Reindeer in 1999 for BBC Animation Unit, Robbie went on to win 19 international awards including a British Academy of Film and Television Arts award. Following the success of Robbie, Starzak worked for two years on a project for Aardman’s feature film department as well as directing and writing the series of Rex the Runt. In 2002, Starzak was honoured with the Award for Best TV Special for Robbie the Reindeer, Hooves of Fire at the 3rd International Festival of Animated Feature Films and TV Specials. From 2003, he directed two series of Creature Comforts – 2x13 episodes for ITV based on the Academy Award winning Nick Park short film, the first series went on to win 17 awards, and both series were nominated for a BAFTA. The second series includes a half-hour Christmas special, in between these two series, he devised Shaun the Sheep, writing and directing the pilot. In July 2005, Starzak rejoined Aardman as creative director of the Broadcast and Development department, writing scripts, Aardman’s first childrens TV series, Shaun the Sheep, was directed by Goleszowski who also wrote several episodes. Shaun has sold to over 150 territories, in 2015, he co-wrote and co-directed Shaun the Sheep Movie with Mark Burton. His next directorial venture will be Shaun the Sheep Movie 2, Richard Starzak at the Internet Movie Database
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Shaun the Sheep
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Shaun the Sheep is a British stop-motion animated television series, a spin-off of the Wallace and Gromit franchise. Having first aired in the UK on CBBC in March 2007 and broadcast in 180 countries globally, the fifth series contains 20 episodes and has been aired in the Netherlands from 1 December 2015 until 1 January 2016. The series inspired its own spin-off, Timmy Time, which follows the adventures of Shauns small cousin and is aimed at younger viewers, a feature-length film, titled Shaun the Sheep Movie, was released theatrically in 2015. A 30-minute film, titled Shaun the Sheep, The Farmers Llamas, was aired as a 2015 Christmas TV special, Series 5 is currently airing in the UK since 5 September 2016. Shaun, a bright and clever sheep, lives with his flock at Mossy Bottom Farm. This usually brings them into conflict—and often into partnership—with the farm sheepdog Bitzer and it has aired on CBBC in the UK from 2007 onward. Each seven-minute episode is shot in Aardmans distinctive stop-motion animation style. The comedic tone is a combination of slapstick and classic silent comedy, there are also no readable words in any episode, although Bitzer can be seen on a dog bowl, and—in series four--Mossy Bottom Farm on a gate, in the original English-language title sequence. All other signage, such as on a box or a bus stop, is replaced by an illegible scrawl. He was named Shaun as a pun on the word shorn after he was subjected to Wallaces automated sheep shearing machine. No official explanation has been given for the later transfer to the farm. Although the original series is silent aside from sound effects, a Hindi-dubbed version seen on Nickelodeon India was redone with scripts, Shaun is the protagonist of the series and, despite being the skinniest of them all, the leader of the flock. He is a clever, confident sheep, prone to mischief, as there is no dialogue, like all the sheep he communicates entirely through bleating, and often explains his ideas to the flock by drawing diagrams on a blackboard. He has a friendship with Bitzer, though this does not stop him from playing pranks on him at times. He communicates, canine-fashion, via barks, growls, and the occasional whimper and he also gives instructions to the flock by blowing a whistle. Despite a tendency to be caught out listening to music, he takes his job very seriously and he is however a generally good friend to Shaun and does his best to keep the whole flock out of trouble. Shirley is the largest member of the flock, a gentle giant, she is usually seen placidly eating, though shes intimidating enough to have defended Shaun from Pidsley the cat. Shes so big that large objects routinely disappear into her fleece, however, her size can also come in very handy when whats needed is a battering ram or similarly immovable object
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Nick Park
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Nicholas Wulstan Nick Park, CBE is an English director, writer, and animator best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep. Park has been nominated for an Academy Award a total of six times, and won four with Creature Comforts, The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave, and Wallace & Gromit, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. He has also received five BAFTA Awards, including the BAFTA for Best Short Animation for A Matter of Loaf and Death and his 2000 film Chicken Run is the highest-grossing stop motion animated film. For his work in animation, in 2012, Park was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork – the Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover – to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life, Park was born in Brookfield Park in Preston, Lancashire in the north-west of England to Mary Cecilia Ashton, a seamstress, and Roger Wulstan Park, an architectural photographer. The middle child of five siblings, Park grew up on Greenlands Estate, the later moved to Walmer Bridge. His sister Janet lives in Longton and he attended Cuthbert Mayne High School. He grew up with a keen interest in drawing cartoons, and as a 13-year-old made films with the help of his mother and her movie camera. He also took after his father, an inventor. He studied Communication Arts at Sheffield City Polytechnic and then went to the National Film and Television School, in 1985, he joined the staff of Aardman Animations in Bristol, where he worked as an animator on commercial products. He also had a part in animating the Pee-wees Playhouse which featured Paul Reubens, along with all this, he had finally completed A Grand Day Out, and with that in post-production, he made Creature Comforts as his contribution to a series of shorts called Lip Synch. Creature Comforts matched animated zoo animals with a soundtrack of people talking about their homes, the two films were nominated for a host of awards. A Grand Day Out beat Creature Comforts for the BAFTA award, in 1990 Park worked alongside advertising agency GGK to develop a series of highly acclaimed television advertisements for the Heat Electric campaign. The Creature Comforts advertisements are now regarded as among the best advertisements ever shown on British television, as voted by viewers of the UKs main commercial channels ITV, two more Wallace and Gromit shorts, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave, followed, both winning Oscars. He then made his first feature-length film, Chicken Run, co-directed with Aardman founder Peter Lord and he also supervised a new series of Creature Comforts films for British television in 2003. On 10 October 2005, a fire gutted Aardman Animations archive warehouse, the fire resulted in the loss of most of Parks creations, including the models and sets used in the movie Chicken Run. Some of the original Wallace & Gromit models and sets, as well as the prints of the finished films, were elsewhere. Parks most recent work includes a US version of Creature Comforts, in the series, Americans were interviewed about a range of subjects
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Peter Lord
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For the art historian see Peter Lord. Which was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 85th Academy Awards, Lord is the executive producer of every Aardman work, including Shaun the Sheep Movie and Arthur Christmas. Lord was born in Bristol, England, in co-operation with David Sproxton, a friend of his youth, he realised his dream of making and taking an animated movie. He graduated in English from the University of York in 1976 and he and Sproxton founded Aardman as a low-budget backyard studio, producing shorts and trailers for publicity. Their work was first shown as part of the BBC TV series Vision On, in 1977 they created Morph, a stop-motion animated character made of Plasticine, who was usually a comic foil to the TV presenter Tony Hart. With his alter-ego Chas, he appeared in a series of childrens art programmes including Take Hart, Hartbeat, from 1980-1981, Morph appeared in his own TV series The Amazing Adventures of Morph. Experiments with animated clay characters synchronised with live recorded soundtracks led to a series of films in the style of animated documentary, the first two were part of the BBC TV series Animated Conversations and were called Down and Out and Confessions of a Foyer Girl. These were followed in 1983 by Conversation Pieces, a series of long films produced for Channel 4. They were called On Probation, Sales Pitch, Palmy Days, Late Edition, in 1985 Nick Park joined the group. Lord, Park and Sproxton developed and finalised their style of detailed, in 1991 Lord animated Adam, a 6-minute clay animation that was nominated for an Academy Award. Park created the odd-couple Wallace and Gromit-shorts in co-operation with Lord, all three together worked as producers, editors and directors. Other awarded productions by Peter Lord are Chicken Run, the first feature film from Aardman, in 2006, Lord, Sproxton and Park were all given the Freedom of the City of Bristol. In that same year, Lord visited the Aardman Exhibit at the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan, Miyazaki has long been a fan of the Aardman Animation works. In 2013 Lord was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 85th Academy Awards for Pirates, Lord was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 17 June 2006. On 9 July 2015, Lord received a Gold Blue Peter badge
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Aardman Animations
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Aardman Animations, Ltd. also known as Aardman Studios, or simply as Aardman, is a British animation studio based in Bristol. Aardman is known for films made using clay animation techniques, particularly those featuring Plasticine characters Wallace. After some experimental computer animated films during the late 1990s, beginning with Owzat. Aardman films have made $973.2 million worldwide and average $163 million per film, Aardman was founded in 1972 as a low-budget project by Peter Lord and David Sproxton, who wanted to realise their dream of producing an animated motion picture. The partnership provided animated sequences for the BBC series for deaf children Vision On, after creating a segment called Greeblies using clay animation, became what was the inspiration for creating Morph, a simple clay character. Aardman also created the title sequence for The Great Egg Race and they produced the music video for the song My Baby Just Cares For Me by Nina Simone in 1987. Later Aardman produced a number of shorts for Channel 4 including the Conversation Pieces series and these five shorts worked in the same area as the Animated Conversations pieces, but were more sophisticated. Lord and Sproxton began hiring more animators at this point, three of the made their directorial debut at Aardman with the Lip Synch series. Of the five Lip Synch shorts two were directed by Peter Lord, one by Barry Purves, one by Richard Goleszowski, parks short, Creature Comforts, was the first Aardman production to win an Oscar. These films include A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave, on 27 October 1999, Aardman and DreamWorks signed a $250 million deal to make an additional four films that were estimated to be completed during the next 12 years. With the deal was announced the first project, titled The Tortoise. Intended to be based on Aesops fable and directed by Richard Goleszowski, on 23 June 2000, Chicken Run was released to a great critical and financial success. In 2005, after ten years of absence, Wallace and Gromit returned in Academy Award-winning Wallace & Gromit, Next year followed Flushed Away, Aardmans first computer-animated feature. On 1 October 2006, right before the release of Flushed Away, The New York Times reported that due to creative differences DreamWorks Animation, the deal was officially terminated on 30 January 2007. According to an Aardman spokesperson, The business model of DreamWorks no longer suits Aardman, but the split couldnt have been more amicable. The studio had another film in development, Crood Awakening, which had announced in 2005. With the end of the partnership, the rights reverted to DreamWorks. This warehouse was used for storage of past projects and so did not prevent the production of their current projects at the time, in addition, the companys library of finished films was stored elsewhere and was undamaged
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StudioCanal
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Studiocanal is a French film production and distribution company that owns the third-largest film library in the world. The company is a unit of the Canal+ Group, owned by Vivendi, the company was founded in 1987 by Pierre Lescure as a spin-off of the Canal+ pay-TV network. The original function was to focus on French and European productions, StudioCanals most notable productions from its early years include Terminator 2, Judgment Day, JFK, Basic Instinct, Cliffhanger, Under Siege, Free Willy, and the original Stargate movie. In those days, it was known as Le Studio Canal+ and it has strong links to Universal Studios. Other films the company financed include U-571, Bully, and Bridget Joness Diary, StudioCanal also funded the last third of David Lynchs film Mulholland Drive. StudioCanal also financed French-language films, such as Brotherhood of the Wolf, StudioCanal acquired film libraries from studios that either went defunct or had merged with it over the years. As a result, the library is the third-largest in the world, behind Warner Bros. 2 years later, their expansion into an international market took place with StudioCanals acquisition of German distributor Kinowelt who had distributed their films up to that point. Both companies have since then been renamed StudioCanal, StudioCanals acquisition of Australian-New Zealand distributor Hoyts Distribution took place in 2012-and was StudioCanals third expansion into an international market. In June 2016, StudioCanal acquired the rights to the Paddington Bear brand, along with the Copyrights Group. StudioCanal then announced that it would be producing three more Paddington films, sony Pictures Home Entertainment handles distribution of StudioCanal/Hoyts Distribution films in Australia and New Zealand on DVD and Blu-ray. StudioCanal also handles home video distribution of 550 titles from the Miramax library internationally since February 2011
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BBC One
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BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service and it was renamed BBC TV in 1960, using this name until the launch of sister channel BBC2 in 1964, whereupon the BBC TV channel became known as BBC1, with the current spelling adopted in 1997. The channels annual budget for 2012–13 is £1.14 billion, the channel is funded by the television licence fee together with the BBCs other domestic television stations, and therefore shows uninterrupted programming without commercial advertising. It is currently the most watched channel in the United Kingdom, ahead of its traditional rival for ratings leadership. As of June 2013 the channel controller for BBC One is Charlotte Moore, the BBC began its own regular television programming from the basement of Broadcasting House, London, on 22 August 1932. BBC Television returned on 7 June 1946 at 15,00, Jasmine Bligh, one of the original announcers, made the first announcement, saying, Good afternoon everybody. Do you remember me, Jasmine Bligh, the Mickey Mouse cartoon of 1939 was repeated twenty minutes later. The competition quickly forced the channel to change its identity and priorities following a reduction in its audience. The 1962 Pilkington Report on the future of broadcasting noticed this, and it therefore decided that Britains third television station should be awarded to the BBC. The station, renamed BBC TV in 1960, became BBC1 when BBC2 was launched on 20 April 1964 transmitting an incompatible 625-line image on UHF. The only way to all channels was to use a complex dual-standard 405- and 625-line, VHF and UHF, receiver. Old 405-line-only sets became obsolete in 1985, when transmission in the standard ended, although standards converters have become available for enthusiasts who collect, BBC1 was based at the purpose-built BBC Television Centre at White City, London between 1960 and 2013. In the weeks leading up to 15 November 1969, BBC1 unofficially transmitted the occasional programme in its new colour system, to test it. At midnight on 15 November, simultaneously with ITV and two years after BBC2, BBC1 officially began 625-line PAL colour programming on UHF with a broadcast of a concert by Petula Clark, colour transmissions could be received on monochrome 625-line sets until the end of analogue broadcasting. In terms of share, the most successful period for BBC1 was under Bryan Cowgill between 1973 and 1977, when the channel achieved an average audience share of 45%. On 30 December 1980, the BBC announced their intention to introduce a new breakfast television service to compete with TV-am. On 17 January 1983, the first edition of Breakfast Time was shown on BBC One, becoming the first UK wide breakfast television service and continued to lead in the rating until 1984. The first major overhaul was to axe the deeply unpopular Sixty Minutes current affairs programme and its replacement was the BBC Six OClock News, a straight new programme in a bid to shore up its failing early evening slot
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1080i
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1080i is an abbreviation referring to a combination of frame resolution and scan type, used in high-definition television and high-definition video. The number 1080 refers to the number of lines on the screen. The term assumes a widescreen ratio of 16,9, so the 1080 lines of vertical resolution implies 1920 columns of horizontal resolution. A1920 pixels ×1080 lines screen has a total of 2.1 megapixels and this format is used in the SMPTE 292M standard. The choice of 1080 lines originates with Charles Poynton, who in the early 1990s pushed for square pixels to be used in HD video formats, within the designation 1080i, the i stands for interlaced scan. A frame of 1080i video consists of two fields of 1920 horizontal and 540 vertical pixels. The first field consists of all odd-numbered TV lines and the second all even numbered lines, 1080i differs from 1080p, where the p stands for progressive scan, where all lines in a frame are captured at the same time. In native or pure 1080i, the two fields of a frame correspond to different instants, so motion portrayal is good and this is true for interlaced video in general and can be easily observed in still images taken of fast motion scenes. However, when 1080p material is captured at 25 or 30 frames/second, it is converted to 1080i at 50 or 60 fields/second, respectively, in this situation both fields in a frame do correspond to the same instant. The field-to-instant relation is more complex for the case of 1080p at 24 frames/second converted to 1080i at 60 fields/second. Both field rates can be carried by digital television broadcast formats such as ATSC, DVB. The frame rate can be implied by the context, while the rate is generally specified after the letter i. In this case 1080i60 refers to 60 fields per second, the European Broadcasting Union prefers to use the resolution and frame rate separated by a slash, as in 1080i/30 and 1080i/25, likewise 480i/30 and 576i/25. Resolutions of 1080i60 or 1080i50 often refers to 1080i/30 or 1080i/25 in EBU notation, 1080i is directly compatible with some CRT HDTVs on which it can be displayed natively in interlaced form, but for display on progressive-scan—e. g. Most new LCD and plasma TVs, it must be deinterlaced, depending on the televisions video processing capabilities, the resulting video quality may vary, but may not necessarily suffer. For example, film material at 25fps may be deinterlaced from 1080i50 to restore a full 1080p resolution at the frame rate without any loss. Preferably video material with 50 or 60 motion phases/second is to be converted to 50p or 60p before display, worldwide, most HD channels on satellite and cable broadcast in 1080i. This also allows local newscasts on these ABC affiliates to be produced in the resolution to match the picture quality of their 1080i competitors
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Stereophonic sound
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Stereophonic sound or, more commonly, stereo, is a method of sound reproduction that creates an illusion of multi-directional audible perspective. Thus the term applies to so-called quadraphonic and surround-sound systems as well as the more common two-channel. It is often contrasted with monophonic, or mono sound, where audio is heard as coming from one position, in the 2000s, stereo sound is common in entertainment systems such as broadcast radio and TV, recorded music and the cinema. The word stereophonic derives from the Greek στερεός, firm, solid + φωνή, sound, tone, voice and it was coined in 1927 by Western Electric, the signal is then reproduced over multiple loudspeakers to recreate, as closely as possible, the live sound. Secondly artificial or pan-pot stereo, in which a sound is reproduced over multiple loudspeakers. By varying the amplitude of the signal sent to each speaker an artificial direction can be suggested. The control which is used to vary this relative amplitude of the signal is known as a pan-pot, by combining multiple pan-potted mono signals together, a complete, yet entirely artificial, sound field can be created. In technical usage, true stereo sound recording and sound reproduction that uses stereographic projection to encode the relative positions of objects and events recorded. During two-channel stereo recording, two microphones are placed in strategically chosen locations relative to the source, with both recording simultaneously. The two recorded channels will be similar, but each will have distinct time-of-arrival and sound-pressure-level information, during playback, the listeners brain uses those subtle differences in timing and sound level to triangulate the positions of the recorded objects. Stereo recordings often cannot be played on systems without a significant loss of fidelity. This phenomenon is known as phase cancellation and this two-channel telephonic process was commercialized in France from 1890 to 1932 as the Théâtrophone, and in England from 1895 to 1925 as the Electrophone. Both were services available by coin-operated receivers at hotels and cafés, modern stereophonic technology was invented in the 1930s by British engineer Alan Blumlein at EMI, who patented stereo records, stereo films, and also surround sound. In early 1931, Blumlein and his wife were at a local cinema, Blumlein declared to his wife that he had found a way to make the sound follow the actor across the screen. The genesis of ideas is uncertain, but he explained them to Isaac Shoenberg in the late summer of 1931. His earliest notes on the subject are dated 25 September 1931, the application was dated 14 December 1931, and was accepted on 14 June 1933 as UK patent number 394,325. The patent covered many ideas in stereo, some of which are used today and these discs used the two walls of the groove at right angles in order to carry the two channels. Much of the development work on this system for cinematic use did not reach completion until 1935, in Blumleins short test films, his original intent of having the sound follow the actor was fully realised
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Shaun the Sheep Movie
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Shaun the Sheep Movie is a 2015 British stop-motion animated adventure comedy film inspired by the television series Shaun the Sheep, created by Nick Park. The film follows Shaun and his flock into the big city to rescue their farmer, Richard Starzak and Mark Burton wrote and directed the film, with Ilan Eshkeri composing the music, while Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes, and Omid Djalili provided the voices. The film premiered on 24 January 2015, at the Sundance Film Festival, Shaun the Sheep Movie was nominated at the 88th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. It was also nominated in The 73rd Golden Globe Awards, BAFTA Awards and it also earned five nominations at The Annie Awards including Best Animated Feature. Shaun, a mischievous sheep living with his flock at Mossy Bottom Farm, is bored with the routine of life on the farm, one day he concocts a plan to have a day off by tricking the farmer into going back to sleep by counting his sheep repeatedly. However, the caravan in which they put the farmer to bed accidentally rolls away, Bitzer, the farmers dog, chases after him. The farmer receives a blow to the head and is taken to a hospital and he wanders into a hair salon and, acting on a vague recollection of shearing his sheep, cuts a celebritys hair. They manage to disguise themselves as people and begin looking for the farmer, but Shaun is captured by Trumper, Shaun is reunited with Bitzer in the animal lock-up, and with the help of a homeless dog named Slip they manage to escape while imprisoning Trumper. They find the farmer, but he not recognize Shaun. Feeling unwanted, Shaun, Bitzer, and the make a makeshift home in an alley. Their spirits are revived when they stumble upon evidence of the memory loss. They devise a plan which involves putting the farmer to sleep again, returning him to the trailer on a pantomime horse, the plan is initially successful, but they are pursued by Trumper, who is now intent on killing them outright. At the farm the group hides in a shed which Trumper tries to push into a rock quarry with a tractor. The farmer wakes up, regains his memory, and Trumper is defeated through teamwork, Slip leaves, but is adopted by a bus driver who finds her on the road. The farmer and the animals have an appreciation for each other. Justin Fletcher as Shaun is the character in the film. A heroic sheep who acts as the leader of The Flock who organises them, Shaun wants to have a free day, and his efforts to do so lead to the Farmer being lost in the big city and needing to be rescued. A little lamb who admires Shaun, a trusty shepherd dog who follows the rules of the Farmer and helps Shaun to find the Farmer
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United Kingdom
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom or Britain, is a sovereign country in western Europe. Lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland, the United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland, with an area of 242,500 square kilometres, the United Kingdom is the 78th-largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th-largest in Europe. It is also the 21st-most populous country, with an estimated 65.1 million inhabitants, together, this makes it the fourth-most densely populated country in the European Union. The United Kingdom is a monarchy with a parliamentary system of governance. The monarch is Queen Elizabeth II, who has reigned since 6 February 1952, other major urban areas in the United Kingdom include the regions of Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester. The United Kingdom consists of four countries—England, Scotland, Wales, the last three have devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in their capitals, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, respectively. The relationships among the countries of the UK have changed over time, Wales was annexed by the Kingdom of England under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542. A treaty between England and Scotland resulted in 1707 in a unified Kingdom of Great Britain, which merged in 1801 with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Five-sixths of Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922, leaving the present formulation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, there are fourteen British Overseas Territories. These are the remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in the 1920s, British influence can be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former colonies. The United Kingdom is a country and has the worlds fifth-largest economy by nominal GDP. The UK is considered to have an economy and is categorised as very high in the Human Development Index. It was the worlds first industrialised country and the worlds foremost power during the 19th, the UK remains a great power with considerable economic, cultural, military, scientific and political influence internationally. It is a nuclear weapons state and its military expenditure ranks fourth or fifth in the world. The UK has been a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council since its first session in 1946 and it has been a leading member state of the EU and its predecessor, the European Economic Community, since 1973. However, on 23 June 2016, a referendum on the UKs membership of the EU resulted in a decision to leave. The Acts of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Great Britain, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have devolved self-government
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Stop motion
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Stop motion is an animation technique that physically manipulates an object so that it appears to move on its own. The object is moved in increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a fast sequence. Dolls with movable joints or clay figures are used in stop motion for their ease of repositioning. Stop motion animation using plasticine is called clay animation or clay-mation, not all stop motion requires figures or models, many stop motion films can involve using humans, household appliances and other things for comedic effect. Stop motion using objects is sometimes referred to as object animation, the term stop motion, related to the animation technique, is often spelled with a hyphen, stop-motion. Stop motion is often confused with the time lapse technique, where photographs of a live surrounding are taken at regular intervals. Time lapse is a technique whereby the frequency at which frames are captured is much lower than that used to view the sequence. When played at speed, time appears to be moving faster. Stop motion animation has a history in film. It was often used to show objects moving as if by magic, in 1902, the film Fun in a Bakery Shop used the stop trick technique in the lightning sculpting sequence. In 1907, The Haunted Hotel is a new stop motion film by J. Stuart Blackton, segundo de Chomón, from Spain, released El Hotel Eléctrico later that same year, and used similar techniques as the Blackton film. In 1908, A Sculptors Welsh Rarebit Nightmare was released, as was The Sculptors Nightmare, italian animator Roméo Bossetti impressed audiences with his object animation tour-de-force, The Automatic Moving Company in 1912. The great European stop motion pioneer was Wladyslaw Starewicz, who animated The Beautiful Lukanida, The Battle of the Stag Beetles, The Ant, one of the earliest clay animation films was Modelling Extraordinary, which impressed audiences in 1912. December 1916 brought the first of Willie Hopkins 54 episodes of Miracles in Mud to the big screen, also in December 1916, the first woman animator, Helena Smith Dayton, began experimenting with clay stop motion. She would release her first film in 1917, an adaptation of William Shakespeares Romeo, in the turn of the century, there was another well known animator known as Willis O Brien. His work on The Lost World is well known, but he is most admired for his work on King Kong, oBriens protege and eventual successor in Hollywood was Ray Harryhausen. After learning under OBrien on the film Mighty Joe Young, Harryhausen would go on to create the effects for a string of successful and memorable films over the next three decades. These included The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, It Came from Beneath the Sea, Jason, in a 1940 promotional film, Autolite, an automotive parts supplier, featured stop motion animation of its products marching past Autolite factories to the tune of Franz Schuberts Military March
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Animation
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Animation is the process of making the illusion of motion and the illusion of change by means of the rapid display of a sequence of images that minimally differ from each other. The illusion—as in motion pictures in general—is thought to rely on the phi phenomenon, animators are artists who specialize in the creation of animation. Animation can be recorded with either analogue media, a book, motion picture film, video tape, digital media, including formats with animated GIF, Flash animation. To display animation, a camera, computer, or projector are used along with new technologies that are produced. Animation creation methods include the traditional animation creation method and those involving stop motion animation of two and three-dimensional objects, paper cutouts, puppets and clay figures, Images are displayed in a rapid succession, usually 24,25,30, or 60 frames per second. Computer animation processes generating animated images with the general term computer-generated imagery, 3D animation uses computer graphics, while 2D animation is used for stylistic, low bandwidth and faster real-time renderings. An earthen goblet discovered at the site of the 5, 200-year-old Shahr-e Sūkhté in southeastern Iran, the artifact bears five sequential images depicting a Persian Desert Ibex jumping up to eat the leaves of a tree. They may, of course, refer to Chinese shadow puppets, in the 19th century, the phenakistoscope, zoetrope and praxinoscope were introduced. A thaumatrope is a toy with a small disk with different pictures on each side. The phenakistoscope was invented simultaneously by Belgian Joseph Plateau and Austrian Simon von Stampfer in 1831, the phenakistoscope consists of a disk with a series of images, drawn on radi evenly space around the center of the disk. John Barnes Linnett patented the first flip book in 1868 as the kineograph, the first animated projection was created in France, by Charles-Émile Reynaud, who was a French science teacher. Reynaud created the Praxinoscope in 1877 and the Théâtre Optique in December 1888, on 28 October 1892, he projected the first animation in public, Pauvre Pierrot, at the Musée Grévin in Paris. This film is notable as the first known instance of film perforations being used. His films were not photographed, they were drawn directly onto the transparent strip, in 1900, more than 500,000 people had attended these screenings. Stuart Blackton, who, because of that, is considered the father of American animation, in Europe, the French artist, Émile Cohl, created the first animated film using what came to be known as traditional animation creation methods - the 1908 Fantasmagorie. The film largely consisted of a figure moving about and encountering all manner of morphing objects. There were also sections of live action in which the hands would enter the scene. The film was created by drawing each frame on paper and then shooting each frame onto negative film, the author of the first puppet-animated film was the Russian-born director Wladyslaw Starewicz, known as Ladislas Starevich
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Television program
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It may be a single production, or more commonly, a series of related productions. A limited number of episodes of a show may be called a miniseries or a serial or limited series. Television series are without a fixed length and are divided into seasons or series. While there is no defined length, U. S. industry practice has traditionally favored longer television seasons than those of other countries, a one-time broadcast may be called a special, or particularly in the UK a special episode. A television film is a film that is initially broadcast on television rather than released in theaters or direct-to-video, a program can be either recorded, as on video tape, other various electronic media forms, played with an on-demand player or viewed on live television. Television programs may be fictional, or non-fictional and it may be topical, or historical. They could be primarily instructional or educational, or entertaining as is the case in situation comedy, a drama program usually features a set of actors playing characters in a historical or contemporary setting. The program follows their lives and adventures, except for soap opera-type serials, many shows especially before the 1980s, remained static without story arcs, and the main characters and premise changed little. If some change happened to the characters lives during the episode, because of this, the episodes could be broadcast in any order. Since the 1980s, there are series that feature progressive change to the plot. For instance, Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere were two of the first American prime time television series to have this kind of dramatic structure. While the later series, Babylon 5 is an example of such production that had a predetermined story running over its intended five-season run. In 2012, it was reported that television was growing into a component of major media companies revenues than film. Some also noted the increase in quality of television programs. When a person or company decides to create a new series, they develop the elements, consisting of the concept, the characters, the crew. Then they offer it to the networks in an attempt to find one interested enough to order a prototype first episode of the series. They want very much to get the word out on what types of shows they’re looking for, to create the pilot, the structure and team of the whole series must be put together. If the network likes the pilot, they pick up the show to air it the next season, sometimes they save it for mid-season, or request rewrites and further review
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Amazon Video
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Amazon Video is an Internet video on demand service that is developed, owned and operated by Amazon. com. Like competitors, Amazon has pursued a number of exclusive content deals to differentiate its service, launched on 7 September 2006 as Amazon Unbox in the United States, the service grew with its expanding library, and added the Prime Video membership with the development of Prime. It was then renamed as Amazon Instant Video on Demand, in the UK, Germany and Austria, Prime Video has been available on a monthly subscription of £5.99 or €7.99 per month, continuing the plan of LoveFilm Instant. The service was available in Norway, Denmark and Sweden in 2012. In 18 April 2016, Amazon split Prime Video from Amazon Prime in the US for $8. 99/m The service also hosts Amazon Original content alongside titles on Video as well. On 14 December 2016, Amazon Video launched worldwide expanding its reach beyond US, UK, Germany, Austria and Japan.99 per month for the first six months, the service debuted on September 7,2006 as Amazon Unbox in the United States. On September 4,2008, the service was renamed Amazon Video on Demand, as of August 2014 the service is no longer available for downloading purchased instant videos. On February 22,2011, the service rebranded as Amazon Instant Video and added access to 5,000 movies and TV shows for Amazon Prime members. On September 4,2012, Amazon signed a deal with pay-TV channel Epix to feature movies on their streaming service, additionally, in November 2013, Amazon premiered the comedies Alpha House and Betas, which are original series available exclusively online via the Prime Instant Video service. Amazon offered the first three episodes of series at once for free, with each subsequent episode released weekly thereafter for Prime members. In February 2014, Amazon announced that the service of its UK subsidiary LoveFilm would be folded into the Instant Video service on 26 February 2014. Also in July, Amazon announced plans to expand the service into India, in September 2015 the word Instant was dropped from its title in the US, and it was renamed simply Amazon Video. In November 2016, the Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon was pursuing streaming rights to U. S. professional sports leagues to further differentiate the service, on December 14,2016, Amazon Video expanded into 200 additional countries. In January 2017, Amazon announced the first branded on-demand subscription service for Amazon Channels, the channel, Anime Strike, will feature more than 1,000 series episodes and movies for a $4.99 per month subscription fee. Depending on the device, Amazon supports up to 4K and High Dynamic Range streaming, uHD/HDR rolled out with its original content. Other titles support 1080p streaming with 5.1 Dolby Digital or Dolby Digital Plus audio, for titles available for purchase, the HD option is often offered at an additional price. Customers of Amazon Video can stream on the web using an HTML5 player, in Firefox and Safari, only Microsoft Silverlight is supported. Amazon video is available on Amazons Fire devices, smart phones, tablets, PCs, TVs supporting the service include LG, Panasonic, Samsung, and Sony
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Boxing Day
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Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated the day after Christmas Day. It originated in the United Kingdom, and is celebrated in a number of countries that formed part of the British Empire. Boxing Day is on 26 December, although the bank holiday or public holiday may take place either on that day or a day later. In the liturgical calendar of Western Christianity, Boxing Day is the day of Christmastide. In some European countries, notably Germany, Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, there are competing theories for the origins of the term, none of which is definitive. In Britain, it was a custom for tradespeople to collect Christmas boxes of money or presents on the first weekday after Christmas as thanks for service throughout the year. This is mentioned in Samuel Pepys diary entry for 19 December 1663 and this custom is linked to an older British tradition, since they would have to wait on their masters on Christmas Day, the servants of the wealthy were allowed the next day to visit their families. The employers would give each servant a box to take home containing gifts, bonuses, and sometimes leftover food. The European tradition, which has included giving money and other gifts to those who were needy and in service positions, has been dated to the Middle Ages. It is believed to be in reference to the Alms Box placed in areas of worship to collect donations to the poor, Boxing Day is a secular holiday that is traditionally celebrated on 26 December, the day after Christmas Day. 26 December is also St. Stephens Day, a religious holiday, when 26 December falls on the weekend, the Boxing Day public holiday is moved to the following day. In the UK, Boxing Day is a bank holiday, on the occasions when Christmas Day is on a Sunday, the following Monday is Boxing Day and Tuesday the substitute bank holiday for Christmas Day. In Scotland, Boxing Day has been specified as a bank holiday since 1974, by Royal Proclamation under the Banking. In Ireland – when the island as a whole was part of the United Kingdom – the Bank Holidays Act 1871 established the feast day of St. Stephen as a public holiday on 26 December. Following partition in 1920, Northern Ireland reverted to the British name, in Australia, Boxing Day is a federal public holiday. The Australian state of South Australia instead observes a public holiday known as Proclamation Day on the first weekday after Christmas Day or the Christmas Day holiday. In New Zealand, Boxing Day is a holiday, penalty rates. In Canada, Boxing Day is a statutory holiday
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Common Sense Media
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Common Sense Media is a San Francisco-based non-profit organization that provides education and advocacy to families to promote safe technology and media for children. Common Sense Media has also developed a set of ratings that are intended to gauge the educational value of videos, games, the nonprofits Learning Ratings attempt to assess different types of learning qualities within various forms of media. The new rating system was funded in part by SCEFDNs $10 million learning initiative program, donations from foundations and individuals and fees from media partners finance Common Sense Media. Today, the organization distributes its content to more than 100 million US homes via partnerships with a variety of traditional, Common Sense Media describes itself as the nation’s largest membership organization dedicated to improving kids’ media lives. By 2016, the organization had over 65 million unique users, in 2016, Charlie Rose reported that Common Sense Media was the United States largest non-profit dedicated to childrens issues. In addition to its English language services, Common Sense Media also offers resources in Spanish, after founding JP Kids, an educational media company for children, and Children Now, a national child advocacy and media group, Jim Steyer founded Common Sense Media in 2003. In an interview with the New York Times, Steyer said he intended to “create a huge constituency for parents, the group received $500,000 in seed money from a group of donors including Charles Schwab, George Roberts, and James Coulter. It said that 81 percent expressed concern that the media in general were encouraging violent or antisocial behavior in children. ”Common Sense Media reviews thousands of movies, TV shows, music, video games, apps, web sites and books. For each title, Common Sense Media indicates the age for which a title is appropriate or most relevant. An overall five-star quality rating is included, as are discussion questions to help families talk about their entertainment. In addition to Common Sense Medias traditional rating system, they offer a set of learning based ratings. Common Sense Media partners with a number of companies that distribute the organization’s free content to more than 100 million homes in the United States. According to Common Sense Media’s website, the organization has content distribution contracts with Road Runner, TiVo, the organization’s current rating system differs from the system used by the Motion Picture Association of America and the Entertainment Software Rating Board. It has received support from parents, and was singled out by US President Barack Obama as a model for using technology to empower parents. Common Sense Media began allowing studios to use their ratings and endorsements in order to promote family-friendly movies in 2014, the first film to use the endorsement was Disney’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Common Sense Media has played a role in influencing billions of dollars in government spending on education-related technologies including classroom broadband access and various learning apps. In April 2015, they launched the national effort, Common Sense Kids Action, to push for certain state. As of 2016, the Common Sense Education program had grown to include over 300,000 member teachers in approximately 100,000 schools
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The Daily Telegraph
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It was founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in 1855 as The Daily Telegraph and Courier, the papers motto, Was, is, and will be, appears in the editorial pages and has featured in every edition of the newspaper since April 19,1858. The paper had a circulation of 460,054 in December 2016 and its sister paper, The Sunday Telegraph, which started in 1961, had a circulation of 359,287 as of December 2016. The Daily Telegraph has the largest circulation for a newspaper in the UK. The two sister newspapers are run separately, with different editorial staff, but there is cross-usage of stories, articles published in either may be published on the Telegraph Media Groups www. telegraph. co. uk website, under the title of The Telegraph. However, critics, including an editor, accuse it of being unduly influenced by advertisers. The Daily Telegraph and Courier was founded by Colonel Arthur B, Sleigh in June 1855 to air a personal grievance against the future commander-in-chief of the British Army, Prince George, Duke of Cambridge. Joseph Moses Levy, the owner of The Sunday Times, agreed to print the newspaper, the paper cost 2d and was four pages long. Nevertheless, the first edition stressed the quality and independence of its articles and journalists, however, the paper was not a success, and Sleigh was unable to pay Levy the printing bill. Levy took over the newspaper, his aim being to produce a newspaper than his main competitors in London. The same principle should apply to all other events—to fashion, to new inventions, in 1876, Jules Verne published his novel Michael Strogoff, whose plot takes place during a fictional uprising and war in Siberia. In 1937, the newspaper absorbed The Morning Post, which espoused a conservative position. Originally William Ewart Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose, bought The Morning Post with the intention of publishing it alongside The Daily Telegraph, for some years the paper was retitled The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post before it reverted to just The Daily Telegraph. As an result, Gordon Lennox was monitored by MI5, in 1939, The Telegraph published Clare Hollingworths scoop that Germany was to invade Poland. In November 1940, with Fleet Street subjected to almost daily bombing raids by the Luftwaffe, The Telegraph started printing in Manchester at Kemsley House, Manchester quite often printed the entire run of The Telegraph when its Fleet Street offices were under threat. The name Kemsley House was changed to Thomson House in 1959, in 1986 printing of Northern editions of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph moved to Trafford Park and in 2008 to Newsprinters at Knowsley, Liverpool. During the Second World War, The Daily Telegraph covertly helped in the recruitment of code-breakers for Bletchley Park, the ability to solve The Telegraphs crossword in under 12 minutes was considered to be a recruitment test. The competition itself was won by F. H. W. Hawes of Dagenham who finished the crossword in less than eight minutes, both the Camrose and Burnham families remained involved in management until Conrad Black took control in 1986
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Emmy Award
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An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, recognizes excellence in the television industry, and corresponds to the Academy Award, the Tony Award, and the Grammy Award. Because Emmy Awards are given in various sectors of the American television industry, Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, recognizing excellence in local and statewide television. In addition, International Emmys are awarded for excellence in TV programming produced, each is responsible for administering a particular set of Emmy ceremonies. The Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences established the Emmy Award as part of an image-building and public relations opportunity. The first Emmy Awards ceremony took place on January 25,1949, at the Hollywood Athletic Club, shirley Dinsdale has the distinction of receiving the very first Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Television Personality, during that first awards ceremony. In the 1950s, the ATAS expanded the Emmys into a national event, in 1955, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences was formed in New York City as a sister organization to serve members on the East Coast, and help to also supervise the Emmys. The NATAS also established regional chapters throughout the United States, with each one developing their own local Emmy awards show for local programming, the ATAS still however maintained its separate regional ceremony honoring local programming in the Los Angeles Area. Originally there was only one Emmy Awards ceremony held per year to honor shows nationally broadcast in the United States, in 1974, the first Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony was held to specifically honor achievement in national daytime programming. Other area-specific Emmy Awards ceremonies soon followed, also, the International Emmy Awards, honoring television programs produced and initially aired outside the U. S. was established in the early 1970s. Meanwhile, all Emmys awarded prior to the emergence of these separate, in 1977, due to various conflicts, the ATAS and the NATAS agreed to split ties. However, they agreed to share ownership of the Emmy statue and trademark. With the rise of television in the 1980s, cable programs first became eligible for the Primetime Emmys in 1988. The ATAS also began accepting original online-only web television programs in 2013, the Emmy statuette, depicting a winged woman holding an atom, was designed by television engineer Louis McManus, who used his wife as the model. The TV Academy rejected a total of forty-seven proposals before settling on McManus design in 1948. The statuette has become the symbol of the TV Academys goal of supporting and uplifting the art and science of television, The wings represent the muse of art. When deciding a name for the award, Academy founder Syd Cassyd originally suggested Ike, however, Ike was also the popular nickname of World War II hero and future U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the Academy members wanted something unique. Finally, television engineer and the third president, Harry Lubcke, suggested the name Immy. After Immy was chosen, it was feminized to Emmy to match their female statuette
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International Emmy Award
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The awards are presented at the International Emmy Awards Gala, held each year in November at the Hilton Hotel, New York City, which attracts over 1,200 television professionals. The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences organizes competitions in several areas, Kids categories, News categories. Organization or individual may submit a program, organizations or individuals who do not hold copyright ownership of a program must obtain consent from the rights owner before presenting a submission. This process is independent from Membership, the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences presents International Emmy Awards in 20 categories over four ceremonies. Program—Performance Arts Programming Best Performance by an Actor Best Performance by an Actress Comedy Documentary Drama Series Non-English Language U. S
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British Academy Children's Awards
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The British Academy Childrens Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. They have been awarded annually since 1996, before that, childrens awards were a part of the main British Academy Television Awards. 2015, My Life, I Am Leo 2016, My Life, The Boy on the Bicycle 2000, Maisy 2001, Animal Stories 2002, Eddy,1999, Tecwyn Y Tractor Discontinued in 2009, for separate voting categories for TV, movies, video games and websites. 2004, Debbie Isitt 2005, Barbara Cox Discontinued in 2006 for one sole Writer category
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BBC Online
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BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBCs online service. The website has gone through several branding changes since it was launched, originally named BBC Online, it was then rebranded as BBCi before being named bbc. co. uk. It was then renamed BBC Online again in 2008, however the service uses the branding BBC, the web-based service of the BBC is one of the most visited websites and the worlds largest news website. As of 2007, it contained two million pages. On 2 March 2010, the BBC reported that it cut its website spending by 25% and close BBC6 Music. On 24 January 2011, the cuts of 25% were announced leaving a £34 million shortfall. This resulted in the closure of several sites, including BBC Switch, BBC Blast, 6-0-6, and this led to the official launch of BBC Online at the www. bbc. co. uk address in December 1997. Later, BBC Online launched licence fee funded web sites for Top of the Pops and Top Gear, Beeb. com was later refocussed as an online shopping guide, and was closed in 2002. Beeb. com now redirects to the BBC Shop website, run by BBC Worldwide. In 1999, the BBC bought the www. bbc. com domain name for $375,000, previously owned by Boston Business Computing, as of 2005, www. bbcnc. org. uk no longer exists. In 2001, BBC Online was rebranded as BBCi. the website launched on 7 November 2001, the BBCi name was conceived as an umbrella brand for all the BBCs digital interactive services across web, digital teletext, interactive TV and on mobile platforms. The navbar was designed to offer a similar system to the i-bar on BBCi interactive television. Interactive TV services continued under the BBCi brand until it was dropped completely in 2008, the BBCs online video player, the iPlayer has, however, retained an i-prefix in its branding. The widget-based design was inspired by such as Facebook and iGoogle. The new homepage also incorporated the design used in the 1970s on the BBCs television service into the large header. The new BBC homepage left beta on Wednesday,27 February 2008 to serve as the new BBC Homepage under the same URL as the previous version. On 30 January 2010, a new design became available as a beta version. This homepage expanded on the idea and the customisation theme
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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Wallace and Gromit
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Wallace and Gromit is a British clay animation comedy series created by Nick Park of Aardman Animations. The series consists of four films and a feature-length film. The series centres on Wallace, a good-natured, eccentric, cheese-loving inventor, along with his companion Gromit, Wallace was originally voiced by veteran actor Peter Sallis, but as of 2011, this role has been passed on to Ben Whitehead. Gromit remains silent, communicating only through means of facial expressions, because of their widespread popularity, the characters have been described as positive international icons of both modern British culture and British people in general. BBC News called them some of the best-known and best-loved stars to come out of the UK, icons has said they have done more to improve the image of the English world-wide than any officially appointed ambassadors. The feature film is also the second highest-grossing stop motion animated film ever, only behind Chicken Run, another Nick Park creation. The first short film, A Grand Day Out, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1990, the short films The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave followed. The full-length feature The Curse of the Were-Rabbit was released in 2005, the latter three each earned Academy Awards. In January 2007, a five film deal with DreamWorks and Aardman fell through only three films, due to creative differences, as well as the box office failure of Flushed Away. Park said later that DreamWorks executives wanted to Americanise the very British Wallace and Gromit after test screenings, a Matter of Loaf and Death was Nick Parks first production since the end of the DreamWorks deal. It was the most watched programme in the UK in 2008. A Matter of Loaf and Death won the 2008 BAFTA Award for Best Short Animation and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2010, voiced by Peter Sallis, and Ben Whitehead in Wallace & Gromits Grand Adventures and Wallace & Gromits Musical Marvels, commercials and apps. Wallace can usually be found wearing a shirt, brown wool trousers, a green knitted pullover. He is best known for his love of cheese, especially Wensleydale, the thought of Lancashire hotpot keeps him going in a crisis. He enjoys tea, and on occasions a little Bordeaux red. He reads the Morning, Afternoon and Evening Post, and lives at 62 West Wallaby Street, Wigan and his last name is never given. Wallace is an inventor, creating elaborate contraptions that often do not work as intended. He is a genius, evident from his exclamation when he discovers Hutchs borrowed skill
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A Grand Day Out
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A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit, later marketed as A Grand Day Out, is a 1989 British stop motion animated short film directed and animated by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol. In the film, Wallace and Gromit spend a holiday by building a homemade rocket to the Moon to sample cheese. The short premiered on 4 November 1989, at the Bristol Animation Festival at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol and it was first broadcast on 24 December 1990, Christmas Eve, on Channel 4. A Grand Day Out is followed by 1993s The Wrong Trousers, 1995s A Close Shave, 2005s The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and 2008s A Matter of Loaf and Death. As Wallace and Gromit relax at home, trying to decide where to spend their upcoming holiday, Wallace decides to fix a snack of tea with cheese. Finding no cheese in the kitchen, he decides that the pair should go to a known for its cheese. After browsing several possible locations, a glance out the window at the sky gives them the idea to travel to the moon, since, according to Wallace. They build a rocket in the basement and pack for the trip, hurrying to the kitchen, he grabs multiple boxes and returns to the rocket just in time for lift-off. When they arrive on the moon, they discover that the landscape is in fact made of cheese. They set up a picnic and sample some, but are unable to match its taste to any cheese they know, looking for a different spot, they encounter The Cooker, a wheeled, mechanised, coin-operated device that resembles an oven and storage cabinet. Wallace inserts a ten pence coin, but nothing happens immediately, only after he and Gromit have left does the Cooker spring to life, popping jointed arms out of its side panels. When it finds the site, it becomes agitated and gathers up the dirty dishes, finding a skiing magazine nearby, it develops a desire to travel to Earth. The Cooker glues a discarded spike of cheese back onto the spot from which Wallace cut it, issues a parking ticket for the rocket, and becomes annoyed by an oil leak from the craft. The Cooker spots Wallace and Gromit in the distance, Wallace having cut another spike of cheese, however, before it can hit Wallace over the head, the money Wallace inserted runs out and it freezes in place. Wallace takes the nightstick as a souvenir, inserting another ten pence in exchange, returning to life, the Cooker realises that the rocket can take it to Earth and excitedly chases after them. Wallace panics, thinking that the Cooker is angry over the cheese he is taking, unable to climb up the rockets ladder, the Cooker cuts its way into the fuselage with a can opener, but accidentally spills and ignites some fuel. The resulting explosion blows it backward and allows Wallace and Gromit to lift off and it waves goodbye to Wallace and Gromit as they return home. Peter Sallis as Wallace Nick Park started creating the film in 1982, as a project for the National Film
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The Wrong Trousers
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The Wrong Trousers is a 1993 stop-motion animated short film directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations, featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit. It was his second half-hour short featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace and his silent but intelligent dog Gromit, following 1989s A Grand Day Out, and preceding 1995s A Close Shave. As in A Grand Day Out, the film uses sight gags and exaggerated physical comedy and quiet moments. The film premièred in the United States on 17 December 1993, and it won the 1993 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. It was highly successful, and inspired a charity fundraising day, known as Wrong Trousers Day, one of several events organised by the charity Wallace, Wrong Trousers Day falls on the last Friday in June every year. During the day, participants wear the trousers to work or school etc. and donate a pound to help sick children in hospitals. The film begins at 62 West Wallaby Street on Gromits birthday at breakfast, after being tipped out of bed and dressed using several mechanical contraptions, Wallace is greeted with a large pile of overdue bills. Wallace remembers Gromits birthday and presents Gromit with a pair of “ex NASA” robotic Techno Trousers, while Gromit is out on a walk, Wallace realises they are in financial difficulty and decides to let the spare bedroom out. He is answered by a penguin named Feathers McGraw. The penguin comes to stay at the house, pushing Gromit out of his bedroom, into the spare bedroom and keeping him awake at night with loud organ music. On the other hand, Wallace takes a liking to him, Feathers also takes an interest in the Techno Trousers after seeing Gromit use their suction feet to walk on the ceiling while decorating the spare bedroom. Distressed that Feathers has barged in on his relationship with his master, Gromit packs up his belongings, after watching Gromit leave, Feathers secretly modifies the Techno Trousers for his own use. He removes the controls on the trousers and adapts them into a remote control, the next morning, Gromit hunts for suitable lodgings. He notices a poster offering a reward for the capture of a chicken – actually a criminal penguin who disguises himself by wearing a rubber glove on his head. Meanwhile, Wallaces normal morning routine is interrupted when his trousers are replaced with the modified Techno Trousers. Trapped inside the trousers, Wallace is marched out of the house and sent running around town on an extended test run. Gromit witnesses this spectacle and later spies on Feathers as he measures up the exterior of the city museum and he returns home and uncovers Feathers plans to steal a large diamond from the museum. However, Feathers returns and Gromit is forced to hide and he watches as Feathers arrives dressed in the chicken disguise
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A Close Shave
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A Close Shave is a 1995 stop motion animated short film directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol, featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit. It was his third half-hour short featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace and his quiet but intelligent dog Gromit, following 1989s A Grand Day Out, to celebrate the films premiere on Christmas Eve 1995, BBC Twos Christmas presentation that year featured Wallace and Gromit. The main ident featured the two eating Christmas dinner, with a large blue 2 situated in the middle of the table, several Christmas themed stings also involving Wallace, Gromit, and the 2 were shown between programmes. The animation of these idents appeared slightly different from other Wallace, following in the footsteps of its predecessor The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in March 1996. In the middle of the night, a small sheep escapes from a lorry and enters the house of Wallace and Gromit. The next morning, Wallace and Gromit fail to notice the sheep chewing at their food and furniture, as well as their new Porridge Gun, while they clean the windows of a wool shop, Wallace meets and falls in love with Wendolene Ramsbottom, the shopkeeper. Wendolene mentions that she inherited the shop from her father who was also an inventor and owns a dog named Preston. After returning from work, they discover the little lost sheep. Wallace puts the sheep into one of his inventions, the Knit-o-Matic, Gromit programs the machine to give a wash, but a fault causes the sheep to be sucked into the rest of the machine and sheared. When the sheep emerges, Wallace names him Shaun and dresses him in the jumper it knitted, Preston spies on the scene while hiding in a flood drain and after they leave, he sneaks in and steals the design blueprints for the Knit-o-Matic. The next day, Wallace pays Wendolene another visit, Gromit attempts to investigate and find out what Preston is doing, but ends up getting captured by Preston and framed for the sheep rustling. Gromit is arrested and sentenced to life in prison while Wallace finds his house overrun with sheep, Wallace, Shaun and the other sheep rescue Gromit from prison and they hide out in the fields. Wendolene and Preston arrive in the lorry and round up the sheep, Wendolene turns against Preston and demands that he should put an end to the rustling, revealing that Preston intends to use the sheep to make “dog meat”. Preston locks Wendolene in the lorry with the sheep and drives away. Wallace and Gromit, who have been spying on the scene, the sidecar Gromit rides in separates, rushes down another road and off the edge of a 2000 foot cliff. Gromit saves himself by activating the sidecars ability to turn into an aeroplane, and flies after Wallaces motorbike and their attempts to catch Preston fail, and Wallace instead gets himself trapped in the lorry. The captives are transported to Prestons factory, where Preston has used the blueprints to build a giant replica of the Knit-o-Matic machine. The captives are loaded into the basin, with Shaun escaping
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A Matter of Loaf and Death
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A Matter of Loaf and Death is a 2008 British clay animated murder mystery comedy film created by Nick Park, and the fourth of his shorts and the last to date to star his characters Wallace and Gromit. Released in 2008, it is the first Wallace and Gromit project since the feature film The Curse of the Were-Rabbit in 2005, a Matter of Loaf and Death is a mock murder mystery, with Wallace and Gromit starting a new bakery business. When the duo learn that bakers have been mysteriously murdered, Gromit tries to solve the case before Wallace ends up a victim himself. Baker Bob is murdered by an unseen assailant that he recognises, meanwhile, Wallace and Gromit are running a Dough to Door delivery service from their bakery Top Bun. While out delivering, the duo encounter Piella Bakewell, a former pin-up girl mascot for the Bake-O-Lite bread company, the brakes on her bicycle appear to have failed as she careers down a hill and into the local zoo. They narrowly save her from crashing into the crocodile enclosure, Gromit becomes suspicious after testing the bicycle brakes and noticing that they work perfectly fine, but Wallace is smitten with Piella. Gromit quickly comes to resent Piella for her demanding and controlling relationship with Wallace and insistence on decorating the house and he does however befriend Fluffles, realising that she has been poorly treated by Piella. When Piella leaves her purse at the house, Wallace asks Gromit to return it, upon arriving at Piellas affluent mansion, Gromit discovers photographs of Piella with the twelve murdered bakers. To his horror, Gromit deduces that Piella is the Cereal Killer as he discovers a picture with Wallace as her apparent intended thirteenth victim, Gromit escapes the house after narrowly avoiding Piella. Piella tricks Wallace into thinking that Gromit bit her and persuades him to chain Gromit up and she then almost succeeds at pushing Wallace to his death, but she is thwarted by a swinging bag of flour from Wallaces dough-mixing contraption. After being struck down and covered flour, Piella snaps into an angry outburst against bakers, the following day, she returns to apologise with a large cake, and they agree to share it at a four oclock tea. When Piella is leaving to attend to the absent Fluffles, she says he will be getting a surprise, a worried Gromit follows her home only to be caught and imprisoned with Fluffles in a storeroom. Escaping in Piellas old Bake-O-Lite hot air balloon, they arrive at Wallaces house as he is lighting the candle, after a struggle, the cake falls to the floor and a bomb inside is revealed. While attempting to finish off Wallace, a battle ensues between Piella and Fluffles in a forklift truck covered by giant oven mitts. In the chaos, the ends up in the back of Wallaces trousers. Gromit and Fluffles neutralise the explosion using an amount of dough while Piella uses the distraction to leap onto her balloon. However, owing to her weight, the balloon crashes into the pit at the zoo where she is eaten alive. Distraught by the death of her owner, Fluffles leaves, with both Wallace and Gromit depressed over their losses, deciding to take their minds off things, they head out to deliver bread and find Fluffles standing in the driveway
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Jubilee Bunt-a-thon
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Jubilee Bunt-a-thon is a 2012 animated short film directed by Nick Park, which stars his characters Wallace and Gromit. It was created in association with the National Trust to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, Jubilee Bunt-a-thon follows Wallace and Gromit as they prepare for the Jubilee weekend, hoisting up bunting around Trust manor. Jubilee Bunt-a-thon was exclusively screened at the Jubilee parties hosted by the National Trust, Jubilee Bunt-a-thon at the National Trusts official YouTube channel
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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
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Wallace & Gromit, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a 2005 British stop-motion animated comedy drama film, produced by Aardman Animations in partnership with DreamWorks Animation. The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is based on the Wallace and Gromit short film series, the film introduces a number of new characters, and features a voice cast including Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes. It is also the only film to win the award. Tottington Halls annual Giant Vegetable Competition is approaching, the winner of the competition will win the coveted Golden Carrot Award. As the event draws close, Wallace finds themselves running out of space to cage the rabbits and he is inspired to create the Mind Manipulation-O-Matic machine to brainwash the rabbits and remove their appetite for vegetables. On his first attempt, a rabbit is stuck to Wallaces head as he uses the machines headpieces, the machine appears to have worked as the rabbit shows no interest in vegetables though appears to have gained some intelligence. They name the rabbit Hutch while Wallace begins rebuilding the device, over the night, several townsfolk report a giant Were-rabbit tried to eat their vegetables. Wallace suspects that Hutch may be the Were-rabbit and keeps him caged up, Lady Tottington holds an emergency town meeting, in which the hunter Lord Victor Quartermaine offers to shoot the Were-rabbit. However, Lady Tottington persuades the rest of the town to continue with Anti-Pestos services, Victor, who really seeks to woo Lady Tottington, becomes jealous of Wallace, and later corners him in the forest. But to Victor and his dog Philips shock, Wallace transforms into the Were-rabbit under the light of the full moon, Gromit, who also witnessed the transformation, lures Wallace back home to protect him. Victor obtains three 24-carrot gold bullets from the reverend to use against Wallace the next evening. The celebration begins the next day, Gromit convinces Wallace that he is the Were-rabbit, and Wallace hides himself away. Lady Tottington, who has come to like Wallace, comes to visit, but when the moon rises, Wallace, beginning to change into a Were-rabbit, shoos Lady Tottington away to avoid seeing him. As she leaves, Victor arrives and attempts to fire on Wallace with the golden bullets, Gromit creates a distraction to allow Wallace, as the Were-rabbit, to escape, the hunter gives chase to Wallace as he heads for the competition. Gromit, with the help of Hutch, plans to sacrifice the giant marrow he had been growing as bait to lure Wallace back to safety, Wallace, as the Were-rabbit, creates chaos at the fair, and Victor eventually runs out of bullets. Desperate, he grabs the Golden Carrot trophy to use as ammo for his blunderbuss, Wallace grabs Lady Tottington and climbs onto one of the towers of Tottington Hall, where she discovers Wallaces connection to the Were-rabbit. Victor gives chase, revealing that he wants to impress Lady Tottington for her money. When Gromit arrives, Philip attempts to prevent him from interfering, leading to the two into a dogfight using aeroplanes taken from a fairground attraction
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Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions
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Wallace and Gromits Cracking Contraptions is a series of ten Wallace and Gromit stop motion animations varying in length from 1 to 3 minutes. Each episode features one of Wallaces new inventions and Gromits skeptical reaction to it, the series was produced and released in 2002 by Aardman Animations. Episodes were broadcast individually on BBC One throughout the Christmas period,2002 and they were subsequently released on a limited-edition BBC VHS and Region 2 DVD. All ten episodes were aired as a 25-minute compilation on BBC Three during Christmas 2008. Episodes first appeared on the internet for free viewing 15 October 2002, starting April 2003 Microsoft sponsored free viewing of individual episodes, one per week. Christmas Cardomatic was viewable free in December 2003, the series is now available free online at the Aardman YouTube channel. The episodes appeared as comic strips in the 2010 Wallace and Gromit Annual and this was the first time Wallace and Gromit were produced in widescreen. Wallace and Gromit head to the football field for a bit of practice, with Wallace shooting. Frustrated at the ease with which Gromit blocks every shot, Wallace activates his Preston North End Soccamatic, Gromit ducks to avoid the barrage, but when Wallace stops to load in more balls, he dons a vest and gloves that inflate to completely block the goal. Wallace suggests that they switch to tennis, after the credits, he serves a ball bounces off Gromits vest, then calls out. To activate the TV set without leaving his chair, Wallace launches a ball into a hole in the wall. It triggers a mechanism that extends the TV across the room on a shaft, so that Wallace can reach the on/off. When he accidentally tunes into the program, he finds that he has no more balls available, Gromit hands him the TV remote. The remote jams the mechanism, causing the TV to shoot across the room, Wallace has built a machine to make Christmas cards, with a camera hooked up to take the pictures for them. He has set up a crudely built snowy landscape in the living room, Wallace is pleased with the results, then hoists the backdrop away and walks off, not noticing the picturesque winter scene outside the window. The birds perched out here wave to Gromit, and one blows a party noisemaker at him when Wallace calls out for him to lick the stamps. To speed up his cooking, Wallace activates the Autochef, a chef with a tea nozzle, a frying pan. He has it cook scrambled eggs, but they end up on Gromits head instead of a plate, next Wallace tries to fry eggs, but the Autochef throws them onto Wallaces face, blinding him
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Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention
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Wallace and Gromits World of Invention is a science-themed miniseries featuring the animated claymation characters Wallace and Gromit, made by Aardman and aired on BBC One. Peter Sallis reprised his role as the voice of Wallace, the filmed inserts are mostly narrated by Ashley Jensen, with one in each episode presented in-vision by Jem Stansfield. John Sparkes also voices a portion in the character of archivist Goronwy. The series was commissioned by Jay Hunt, controller of BBC One, alison Kirkham is the series executive producer for the BBC and Miles Bullough is the executive producer for Aardman. The series is directed by Merlin Crossingham, the series premiered on BBC One and BBC One HD on 3 November 2010 at 7,30 p. m. in the United Kingdom and ended on 8 December 2010. It featured six episodes, each one 30 minutes in length and it Never Got Off the Drawing Board – Jem Stansfield looks at invention ideas or prototype inventions that never got off the drawing board, such as a refrigerator made by Albert Einstein. Curiosity Corner – Wallace looks at unusual inventions that were created with inspiration from the most unlikely sources, contraption Countdown – Goronwy, an unseen Welsh-accented archive librarian, looks at a countdown of inventions regarding an episodes subject matter. On 13 December 2010, all six episodes of the series were released on DVD, the DVD also includes a pamphlet of ideas for inventions along with instructions. Wallace & Gromits World of Invention, BBC One, review
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Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo
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Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo is a platform video game, the first featuring Aardman Animations characters Wallace & Gromit. The game was developed by Frontier Developments for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, the game features the voice of Wallace, Peter Sallis. Start of Finish of Feathers McGraw statue 3, sliding on the ice The story sees the duo take on Feathers McGraw, the penguin villain from The Wrong Trousers, once more. Wallace and Gromit, meanwhile, have adopted one of the baby polar bears. As they go to visit the zoo to celebrate his birthday, a quick spot of inventing back at the house, and they prepare to embark on their latest adventure. Hiding inside a giant wooden penguin, a parody of the famous Trojan horse, they infiltrate the zoo, Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo received mixed or average reviews on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo at MobyGames
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Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures
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Wallace & Gromits Grand Adventures is an episodic graphic adventure game based around the characters of Wallace and Gromit created by Nick Park and Aardman Animations. The game was developed and published by Telltale Games, episodes are developed by Telltale Games in collaboration with Aardman Animations to develop the story, characters, and setting. Players control both Wallace and Gromit at times through the gameplay, ben Whitehead, Aardmans official backup voice actor, portrays Wallace, instead of Peter Sallis, who had voiced the character in all screen appearances up to that point. A playable demo of the first episode was available on March 16,2009. It is also included on the Region 2 DVD and Blu-ray releases of A Matter of Loaf, Wallace has opened a new business, From Bee to You specialising in delivering freshly made honey to his customers. He takes up the offer to provide fifty gallons of honey in repayment to the local grocer after his electric cheese-detecting machine accidentally rampaged through the store on a test run. However, Wallace has used up all the flowers in his garden, the formula is a success, and he meets his clients demand but things soon go wrong when the bees react to the growth formula, becoming huge and terrorizing the town and Wallaces home. Gromit is able to trap most of the bees, but Wallace is stolen away by the giant bee queen, Gromit gives chase in Wallaces honey tanker truck, and is able to rescue Wallace. The two work together to feed the more honey dosed with more of the growth formula. Wallace works out an antidote to the formula to restore the bees to normal. Using their profits from the business, Wallace prepares to take Gromit to Blackpool. When Ms. Flitts boyfriend, Duncan McBiscuit is mysteriously injured, Wallace and Gromit deduce that the puppies, upset at having their chew toy taken away from them, attacked Duncan. In the episodes finale, the cellar drain becomes dislodged, just as everyone leaves, a whistling man with a mustache posts a flyer for a charity fair through the door to 62 West Wallaby Street. Shortly after the season, a charity fair comes into town, run by Monty Muzzle, to raise money for a new dog shelter. After dealing with three strays in their home, Wallace and Gromit go to the fair with Wallaces new invention to create any flavor of ice cream. At the fair, Gromit discovers that Mr. Muzzle is actually attempting to steal away the townspeoples donations and using the strays as manual labor for the fair. When Wallace and Gromit uncover Mr. Muzzles intentions, he escapes on a makeshift balloon, after the previous episode and before this one, the whole of West Wallaby Street was sued by the ice-cream company for wrecking Wallaces truck and Wallace was fired from that company. Wallace starts a new business called Golden Retrieval which aims to find lost objects, Wallace challenges Duncan to a golf tournament so that he may become chairman and tear up the deed, saving the town, and manages to win with Gromits help
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Shaun the Sheep (video game)
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Shaun the Sheep is an adventure game developed by Art Co. Ltd and published by D3Publishers America and Europe branches for the Nintendo DS handheld console, the game is based on the popular, Aardman Animations series, of the same name. The game was released on September 23,2008 in the United States, in the game, Shaun must find and rescue the sheep before the farmer gets home. Shaun is controlled by the Control Pad or the stylus while walking, exploring or solving problems in a fully 3D area with 3D characters around. While most sheep are not hard to find some sheep like Timmy or Shirley require a minigame to be started in order to be rescued, every time enough achievements are reached, new areas are unlocked to find more sheep. In Shaun the Sheep, the sheep have escaped and Shaun must find the rest of the flock before the Farmer comes home, Shaun the Sheep Official Site Shaun the Sheep at IGN
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Wallace & Gromit's Thrill-O-Matic
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Wallace & Gromits Thrill-O-Matic is an indoor family ride at the Pleasure Beach Blackpool, a theme park in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. It opened in 2013, replacing The Gold Mine ride, which closed in 2011 and it is based on the Wallace and Gromit films and was opened in April 2013 by Nick Park, Amanda Thompson, Nick Thomas and Merlin Crossingham. The ride, which cost £5.25 million to make, was created by Blackpool Pleasure Beach design in association with the creators of Wallace and Gromit, Aardman Animations. The cars on the ride are designed on one of Wallaces slippers, so that, riders also experience small drops and sound effects throughout the ride. Next to the ride is a shop selling Wallace and Gromit merchandise including products such as T-shirts, toys, mugs, hoodies,2013 in amusement parks Wallace and Gromit
