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Toy Story Impact On History

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The 1995 film Toy Story is about a Cowboy named Woody who gets his position as favorite toy revoked and becomes replaced by another toy named Buzz Lightyear. The two of them accidentally fall out of the top story of their home and have to go on an adventure to make their way back. What makes this movie unique is not the plot of it, but how it was created. Historical Criticism applies to this story due to the technology that was used to create it and how much this technology impacted the time period in which it was produced. The 1995 Film, Toy Story, receives its Historical approach by the movie reflecting a turning point in computer technology with this movie representing one of the first fully computer animated feature films as it was able …show more content…

Infact, Pixar became so great at publishing animated films they were able to “reduce the amount of labor required to make high-quality cartoons that they may well change the economics of animation” (Lesley). Pixar may have been extremely successful from making animated films before Toy Story, but Toy Story definitely takes the cake. What is so important about history such as this is how technology applies to people’s lifestyles in the modern day. Everyone is able to have access to the latest computer and phone products because of the technology advancement, which Pixar had (and still is) been apart of for generations. This type of historical content may have not affected anybody who lived in the World War 2 era or even further back, but they seriously impacted technology in a positive way. Pixar was such an intelligent company, even “Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple, has bought Pixar back in 1986” (Kovach). If Pixar has “26 million dollar deals” (Zorthian) coming up to them like its nothing, then people are able to tell how Pixar has impacted the way of life …show more content…

Lasseter was a genius when it came to computer animation, he had been using the “Pixar Image Computer to create a short film known as Luxo Jr.” (Zorthian). Before the Toy Story film was in development, nobody knew what the Pixar Image Computer could be capable of and only used it to create either Two-Dimensional movies or a Three-Dimensional short film. Considering Luxo Jr. had been released before Toy Story, the short film was created as a test to see if they could make their full length Three-Dimensional film. Lasseter might have also been the one who discovered that his computer was capable of “reducing the amount of manual labor required to make high quality cartoons” which encouraged him to create Luxo Jr. and then Toy Story right afterwards (Lesley). Without the discovery of how their computer operates they could have not obtained their title of having the 1st computer animated film and would not be as rich of a company as they are today. At first, the Pixar Image Computer did not seem to impact the history of technology at all. But once they figured out what it was capable of and created the two Three-Dimensional films, it impacted the history of technology enough to make Pixar an animation company that was well known all around the

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