Thursday, 4 January 2018
884 Animation Now
First viewed : 26 October 1988
Sometimes, the future flashes in front of your eyes when you least expect it. Animation Now was part of the DEF II strand, filling a ten minute time slot on a Wednesday after a repeat of Mission Impossible. It was simply a showcase for recently-made animated shorts. I didn't normally catch it but on Wednesday 26.10.88 I was in a pub in Hereford prior to Rochdale's game there ( a memorable 4-4 thriller ) and this was on the TV.
The film they showed was a five minute short called Tin Toy produced by a struggling U.S. company called Pixar . The film concerns a little mechanical one man band player called Tinny who runs away and hides from a baby, Billy, who's going to be too rough with him. At one point the baby falls over and starts crying. The look of concern on Tinny's face and bravery in going out to comfort him are extraordinarily affecting.
Just months later, the film won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film and put computer-generated animation on the cultural map for good . It was the direct inspiration for Toy Story seven years later.
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