No one who has seen the clay-animated Wallace and Gromit shorts would be surprised to learn that the architect of all this noodle-headed brilliance is Nick Park, he who cast a criminal penguin in " The Wrong Trousers " and cooked up a demonic sheep-shearing machine for " A Close Shave " ( whose luddite sentiments prefigure " Chicken Run's " ).
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"The shearing machines are worked on the principle of a horse clipper; there is a comb with slightly elevated teeth, made of steel, the knife works on the top of the comb; a three horsepower engine will work 16 machines in the following manner : There is a shaft running the whole length of the shearing floor, about 7 feet from the ground.
