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Pixar Announces Short to Premiere Before 'Wall-E'
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The short films Pixar produces to precede its theatrical features are among life's singular joys, and word of a new one is almost as exciting as this recent mega-announcement. The Pixar Blog tells us what to expect when we finally sit down to watch Wall-E this summer. Presto is a five-minute short about Alec, a magician's rabbit who becomes increasingly disgruntled as a hat trick involving him makes his master famous. When the magician goes out to dinner one night, he leaves Alec locked in a cage, gazing longingly at a carrot just out of reach. Doug Sweetland, an animator on most of Pixar's big productions, directs and does all the voices. Above is a somewhat low-res still from the film.
You can take a peek at most of the Pixar shorts here, and the full versions are available on iTunes for two bucks a pop. You can't really go wrong with any of them but the best, for my money, is For the Birds, which is so outrageously fantastic that I'm convinced it contains the meaning of life. (The fact that it is forever associated with Monsters, Inc., my favorite Pixar feature, doesn't hurt.)
Wall-E -- and Presto -- hit theaters on June 27th.
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Checking out some old Pixar shorts
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Had the studio not had such amazing success with
feature-length pictures, Pixar could have continued making equally amazing short features. One of the best things about
seeing a Pixar release, at least for me anyway, is getting to see the short films they show before the main feature. Dan Caylor has a link to a Windows Media Player file featuring a look at two Pixar
shorts "For The Birds" and "Geri's Game." Also, toward the end of the footage at about 12 minutes
and 45 seconds is a very brief animated short by Monsters INC director Peter Docter called "Winter."_thumbnail.jpg)
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