Peter Lord
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
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Description
"When the infamous Pirate Captain ... is shunned once again by his rivals Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz, he sets his sights to win the coveted pirate of the year award! With his trusted dodo, Polly and rag-tag crew at his side, the Pirate Captain will need to battle a diabolical queen, save a young scientist and never lose sight of what a pirate loves best: Adventure"--Container.
5) Chicken run
Publisher
DreamWorks
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
While the chickens on Mrs. Tweedy's farm dream of a better life, a clever hen named Ginger is hatching plans to fly the coop for good. The only problem is, chickens can't fly, or can they? Every escape attempt goes fowl until Rocky, a smooth-talking All-American rooster, crash lands in the coop. It's hardly poultry in motion when Rocky attempts to teach Ginger and her fine feathered friends to fly, but, with teamwork, determination, and a little bit...
7) Flushed away
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
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...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Arthur Christmas reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child's question: So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night? The answer: Santa's exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But at the center of the film is a story about a family in a state of comic dysfunction and an unlikely hero, Arthur, with an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning dawns.
10) 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.
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
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
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.
13) 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.
14) Flushed away
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Español
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 decides 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...
15) 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
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
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!
17) Arthur Christmas
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Arthur Christmas reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child₂s question: ₁So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?₂ The answer: Santa₂s exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But at the center of the film is a story about a family in a state of comic dysfunction and an unlikely hero, Arthur, with an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning dawns.
18) City lights
Series
Criterion collection volume 680
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
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
Dreamworks Animation
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Curse of the were-rabbit: It's 'veggie-mania' in Wallace and Gromit's neighborhood. The two enterprising friends are cashing in with their humane pest-control outfit, "Anti-Pesto." With only days to go before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition they find that their business is booming. They come to find out that running a "humane" pest control outfit can have its drawbacks. Suddenly, a large and mysterious veg-ravaging "beast" begins attacking...
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....