The best Pixar films not only make you smile and laugh, but also think. Not that the travails of this little tin toy are necessarily going to inspire some sort of major intellectual discussion ...

This is a reference to the lamp in the Pixar logo. 4. The tools that Sid uses ... One of the books is called Tin Toy, which was the name of the original treatment Toy Story was based on.

personality–is at the heart of many Pixar movies, beginning with Lasseter’s ’80s shorts Luxo, Jr. (whose lamp became the i in the company’s logo), Red’s Dream and Tin Toy, all made to ...

didn't have a short and is the only Pixar film — well, other than Toy Story 4, now — to not be originally be shown with one. The word "originally" is key here, because a short called Tin Toy ...

the CAG—now renamed Pixar—was spun off as its own thing. In 1988, they took home an Oscar for the animated short Tin Toy and became a hot property in Hollywood. In that time, Lasseter’s ...

15.) “Tin Toy” (1988) — This is the short that saved Pixar from financial ruin, became the first CGI film to win an Oscar, and led to Disney making a deal with Pixar to create “Toy Story.” ...

In 1988, to show off what Pixar's machines could do, Lasseter directed a short all-CGI cartoon called "Tin Toy." The film won an Oscar, starting Lasseter back on the path toward making a full ...

The company, probably America's foremost animation studio of the moment, got its start in the world of shorts, and won its first Oscar for its 1988 offering "Tin Toy." Pixar has, of course ...