You've Still Got a Friend in Me!

Reliving History with the Toy Story Double Feature

I doubt many people my age realized it when they first saw it, but Toy Story was not just another animated film from the aging House of Mouse.  As I sat in a small Oregon theatre with my brother and grandparents on a New Year's eve in 1995, little did I realize that the vivid, fully realized CG world flooding into my wide, awestruck eyes was the herald a new age of animated film.  Fourteen years later, as I again sat in a theatre reliving that moment, only now with a funny pair of glasses and a bit more stubble on my chin, it occurred to me that I wasn't just watching a brilliantly remastered, 3D version of one of the best animated films ever made, I was rewatching, in a theatre, the Snow White of my generation.  I was in a theatre reliving the birth of computer animated film, and hey howdy hey, it's never looked better!

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