Wallace and Gromit only behind "Chicken Run", another Nick Park creation. Wallace and Gromit spearhead the fundraising for two children's charities: Wallace & Gromit's Children's Foundation, which supports children's hospices and hospitals in the United Kingdom, and Wallace and Gromit's Grand Appeal, the Bristol Children's Hospital Charity. The first short film, "A Grand Day Out", was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1990, but lost to "Creature Comforts", another animated creation of Nick Park. The short films "The Wrong Trousers" and "A Close Shave" followed. The full-length feature "" was released in 2005. The latter three each earned
Exploding trousers line starting to smoke. There were also several reports of trousers exploding while farmers were wearing them, causing severe burns. The history was written up by James Watson of Massey University in a widely reported article, "The Significance of Mr. Richard Buckley's Exploding Trousers", and which later won him an Ig Nobel Prize In their May 2006 "Exploding Pants" episode the popular U.S. television show "MythBusters" investigated the idea that trousers could explode based on the events of New Zealand in the 1930s. Experimenters tested four substances on 100% cotton overalls: the common name for nitrocellulose. Each of these were