A Close Shave A Close Shave A Close Shave is a 1995 British stop-motion animated short film directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations. It is the third film featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit, following "A Grand Day Out" (1989) and "The Wrong Trousers" (1993). In "A Close Shave," Wallace and Gromit uncover a plot to rustle sheep by a sinister dog. Like "The Wrong Trousers", it won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Wallace (Peter Sallis) and Gromit operate a window cleaning business. As they clean the windows of a wool shop, Wallace falls for shopkeeper
Baggy Trousers Kronenbourg 1664 'Slow' campaign (see above). In 1986, Colgate used the song's melody in a television advertisement written by Jay Pond-Jones and Ric Cooper in which a group of kids sings newly written lyrics about Colgate Blue Minty Gel toothpaste. The advert was seen as groundbreaking but had to be pre-approved by the band. Pond-Jones said, "Many years later ... I found out how they actually quite liked it. Even now, Carl from the band introduces me to people as “the bloke who did the Colgate ad”." Baggy Trousers "Baggy Trousers" is a song by English ska/pop band Madness from