Wallace in the wrong trousers, landing on the train
Wallace bursting from a wardrobe in the Techno Trousers and landing on the model railway, used against the line about reverse-engineering a game engine at two in the morning.
ImageSources & confidence: Qualified confidence
Checked 2 October 2026 · AI-assisted review
Film identity and release year checked against official Aardman pages; exact clip provenance remains incomplete.
- Wallace & Gromit — The Wrong Trousers
The official film page identifies the Techno Trousers story and characters.
- Aardman — Thirty years of The Wrong Trousers
Confirms the 1993 release.
- Essay and image in this repository
Confirms use of the named clip in the essay. Checked against the local essay and its asset; the URL is the publication locator.
What this check doesn’t establish
- Source identification does not establish permission to reproduce this asset.
- The uploader or extraction source for this particular clip has not been traced.
Confidence applies to the scope above, not every claim made by the underlying source. How confidence works
- Creator
- Nick Park
- Created
- 1993
- Medium
- video
- Rights
- fair dealingThe Wrong Trousers (1993), dir. Nick Park, Aardman Animations
- Reuse notes
- The existing catalogue records a fair-dealing rationale for this use. No asset-specific licence or permission is recorded; this source review does not establish legal clearance.
The second of two clips from the same film in this essay, both used for their timing rather than their argument.
In the essays
- I Gave an AI a Civilization to Run. It Built a Nuke.
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Record history
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