Peter Lord
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aardman Animations was founded in 1972 by Peter Lord and David Sproxton. Joined by animator Nick Park in 1985, Aardman pioneered a quirky, lovable style of stop-motion animation and is behind a string of unforgettable award-winning hits including Chicken Run, the highest-grossing stop-animated film of all time, and the Wallace & Gromit series. With 'A Grand Success!,' Lord, Sproxton, and Park tell the inside story of the 45-year history of Aardman....
2) Early man
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, this tells the story of Dug, along with sidekick Hognob as they unite his tribe against a mighty enemy Lord Nooth and his Bronze Age City to save their home.
Publisher
Distributed by DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
'Vege-mania' is sweeping Wallace and Gromit's neighborhood, so the two enterprising chums are cashing in with their company, "Anti-Pesto." Business is booming, and only days remain before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition. Suddenly, a huge, mysterious, veg-ravaging "beast" begins attacking the town's vegetable plots at night, and the competition hostess, Lady Companula Tottington, commissions Anti-Pesto to catch it and save the day.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After years of humiliation and failed attempts to win the Pirate of the Year Award, Pirate Captain and his oddball crew go on a race to pillage the most booty. They soon cross paths with scientist Charles Darwin, who persuades the Captain that the crew's 'parrot,' Polly, could be the answer to the riches they are searching for.
Author
Publisher
H.N. Abrams
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
"Creating 3-D Animation, originally published in 1998, has become required reading for animation courses around the world. Now, this revised and expanded edition brings Aardman's ever-evolving technology and new achievements up to date for fans and students of this innovative animation studio." "Authors Peter Lord and Brian Sibley go behind the scenes in the making of the extraordinarily successful Chicken Run (1999), the studio's first feature-length...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
'How can Santa deliver billions of presents to the whole world in just one night? With an army of one million combat-style Field Elves and a vast, state-of-the-art control center under the ice of the North Pole! So how could this incredible operation have missed one child?! To Santa's young son, Arthur, it threatens to end the magic of Christmas. With retired Grandsanta, a rebellious young elf, an old sleigh and some untrained reindeer, Arthur sets...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After years of humiliation and failed attempts to win the Pirate of the Year Award, Pirate Captain and his oddball crew go on a race to pillage the most booty. They soon cross paths with scientist Charles Darwin, who persuades the Captain that the crew's 'parrot, ' Polly, could be the answer to the riches they are searching for.
8) Flushed away
Language
English
Description
Roddy is a decidedly upper-crust "society mouse" who lives the life of a pampered pet in a posh Kensington flat. When a sewer rat named Sid comes out of the sink, he desides he had hit the jackpot. Roddy schemes to rid himself of Sid by luring him into the "whirlpool." Sid may be an ignorant slob, but he's no fool, but it is Roddy who winds up being flushed away into the bustling sewer world of Ratropolis. There Roddy meets Rita, an enterprising scavenger...
9) Chicken run
Publisher
DreamWorks Animated Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
They are prisoners fearing for their very lives and dreaming only of escape. They're the inmates of Tweedy's Chicken Farm where any chicken who doesn't put breakfast on the table can wind up as dinner, but Ginger and her flock are determined to escape.
10) Chicken run
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
They are prisoners fearing for their very lives and dreaming only of escape. They're the inmates of Tweedy's Chicken Farm where any chicken who doesn't put breakfast on the table can wind up as dinner, but Ginger and her flock are determined to escape.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A high society pet mouse is flushed down the toilet and must learn to adapt to life in the sewers of London; when a flying circus chicken lands in an egg farm, the egg farm chickens have great hopes that he can teach them all to fly, in order to escape; with the annual vegetable growing contest close at hand, Wallace and Gromit must solve the mystery of a garden pest that is sabotaging people's gardens.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When their town's prized produce starts disappearing, our cheese loving inventor and his savvy canine companion must use all their wildly imaginative inventions to try to capture a mysterious beast of epic and fluffy proportions!
13) Flushed away
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of Roddy, an upper-crust society mouse who is rather rudely evicted from his Kensington flat when he is flushed down into Ratropolis, the bustling sewer world found under London's streets.
15) Early man
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Cavemen Dug and Hognob work together to defend their tribe against the Bronze Age's Lord Nooth.
16) City lights
Series
Criterion collection volume 680
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
None
Description
The most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street and mistakes him for a millionaire. Though this Depression-era smash was made after the advent of sound, Chaplin remained steadfast in his love for the expressive...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2018
Language
English
Description
Shark tale: Oscar, a lowly tongue-scrubber at the local Whale Wash, becomes an improbable hero when he tells a great white lie. To keep his secret, he teams up with Lenny, an outcast vegetarian shark, and the two become the most unlikely of friends. When his lie begins to unravel, it's up to Lenny and Oscar's loyal friend, Angie, to help him stand up to the most feared shark in the water and find his true place in the reef.
Flushed away: Roddy St....