I spent many hours on Pendine sands as a kid, used to go there for holidays.The makers of Wallace and Gromit have filmed what they hope to be the world's largest stop-motion animation. The motion picture, called 'Gulp' is the story of a lone fisherman who gets eaten by a fish, and is set on Pendine Sands, Carmarthenshire.
About 30 volunteers and sand artists helped make the video, shot with three mobile phones from a cherry-picker.
Aardman Animations also broke a world record for creating the smallest stop-motion animated character in 2010.
Will Studd, Gulp's co-director, said: "The film was a huge test of planning and coordination with Mother Nature.
"We were incredibly lucky with conditions and tide times, sometimes we got our final frame for the day just as the waves crashed in around our set."
He said a "canvas" of 42.71 metres (141ft) by 24 metres (79ft) had been used, shooting up to 75 frames per day with mobile phones.
He added: "Obviously, the turnaround had to be so quick with such a short window."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendine_Sands
In the 1920s it became clear that roads and race tracks were no longer adequate venues for attempts on the world land speed record. As record breaking speeds approached 150 mph (240 km/h), the requirements for acceleration to top speed before the measured mile and safe braking distance afterwards meant that a smooth, flat, straight surface of at least 5 miles (8.0 km) in length was needed. The first person to use Pendine Sands for a world land speed record attempt was Malcolm Campbell. On September 25, 1924 he set a world land speed record of 146.16 mph (235.22 km/h) on Pendine Sands in his Sunbeam 350HP car Blue Bird.
