Saturday, 5 May 2012

Jubilee Bunt-a-thon

To mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, Aardman Animations has created a one-minute Wallace and Gromit film called A Jubilee Bunt-a-thon (2012). I guess that's one second for every year of the Queen's reign. Nick Park created this new animation for the National Trust, which will show it at some of its properties during tea parties on 4 June. It took 30 people 3 months to complete the 1-minute movie. CLICK for the National Trust. CLICK for a BBC slide show.

posted by Unknown @ 5.5.12   5 comments

5 Comments:

At 5/5/12, Anonymous Anonymous said...

How brilliant but how annoying that it isn't on television. Only in certain places. Arguably the nation's favourite dog and his owner. Can't wait to see it. Thank you Aardman. That many people and that long to create a work of art. Pure magic.

 
At 5/5/12, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Absolutely superb! Meticulous detail. Great BBC slide show and hope it wins an Oscar for animated short; although it IS rather short to be nominated. Hope it gets shown on the television, it deserves to be shown to a wider audience.

 
At 5/5/12, Blogger Unknown said...

I agree to both comments. I wonder if 1 minute is too short for the Oscars. And if it doesn't have a wide enough circulation.

 
At 8/5/12, Blogger Unknown said...

Hi. Thanks for the link. Wallace and Gromit are high art as far as I'm concerned, so they are well suited to an esoteric channel. Why should the proletariat viewing BBC1 have all the laughs? As for Cracking Contraptions, I believe it was a weekly TV series with Wallace and Gromit introducing technological things, which might explain the 11. I didn't watch it, but saw the trailers.

 
At 8/5/12, Blogger Unknown said...

Here's a Tiny URL of the above link.

http://tinyurl.com/d98bboq

Just watched it. Very amusing, under 14 minutes long.

 

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