The Pixar Story – Miracle on 34th Street – Art Attack – James May’s Toy Stories – Knowing Me, Knowing Yule… with Alan Partridge – Outnumbered – The Christmas Special – Arena – 27 Dec 2009

The first recording today starts with the end of Animal Park. There’s trails for Three Men go to Ireland, Outnumbered and the Tracy Beaker web game. Then it’s The Pixar Story, a documentary from 2007, so it goes up to the release of Cars. This documentary is available on Disney Plus if you want to watch it. I think it’s quite good. Obviously, it concentrates a lot on John Lasseter, who was definitely the primary creative head during this time. Brad Bird wasn’t one of the original Pixar team, and only joined when asked to make The Incredibles, but he went to the California Institute of the Arts with Lasseter. Others who went there included Tim Burton and John Musker. It was particularly popular with animators because a lot of the older Disney animators had been brought out of retirement to teach there. Alumnus John Musker, along with Ron Clements, would effectively start the Disney Renaissance when they wrote and directed The Little Mermaid. Ollie Johnston and Frank Clements were two…