Get them while they're hot

June 17, 2018 5:39 PM

For centuries -- millennia even -- the biggest goal of Pixar fanatics has been to find the Holy Grail, the rarest of all DVDs to bear the lamp: Made In Point Richmond. Given out exclusively to employees shortly before the studio moved to a larger facility, it was never sold to the public. You could only have a copy if you worked for the company at the time, and though it had grown to a staff of hundreds by the time the disc was printed, it still wasn't as big as it is now.

posted by the man of twists and turns (8 comments total)

Those party vids...Oh, to be young and in a creative group again. *sigh*
posted by Thorzdad at 6:28 PM on June 17, 2018 [2 favorites]

The 1986 video is pure "Threat Level Lunchtime."
posted by rhizome at 6:37 PM on June 17, 2018

Oh, to be young, and also a desk lamp
posted by DoctorFedora at 6:38 PM on June 17, 2018 [5 favorites]

I was unfamiliar with Platypus Comix, and judging from the design of the website alone, I couldn't tell whether this leaked last month, or last month 15 years ago...

It was last month. :)
posted by bigendian at 7:19 PM on June 17, 2018 [3 favorites]

I live in Richmond and I've driven by those buildings, I had no idea that Pixar used to be there. Kind of a big loss for Richmond.
posted by bleep at 7:51 PM on June 17, 2018 [1 favorite]

Emeryville doesn’t deserve them.

(I kid I kid! My best friend lives in Emeryville)
posted by nikaspark at 9:00 PM on June 17, 2018

Oh my those Listerine commercials... those were some of my favorite commercials. When I was a child, I used to draw the Listerine bottle character often in a variety of the costumes and poses. I never knew that those were Pixar.

Listerine is still my go to mouthwash because of those animated commercials.
posted by Hicksu at 10:50 PM on June 17, 2018 [1 favorite]

The commentators seem a bit nonchalant but those early shorts from the 80s - but worth remembering ust how difficult they would have been to make. Everything took an age to render and most of the tools and techniques had to be built before addressing the short itself. I think Pixar owes a lot to the SIGGRAPH conferences of that era. SIGGRAPH dates back to 1974 and somewhere along the line the organisers had come up with the idea of having not just individual technical presentations - but also a "show reel" where all contributions could be shown to a single audience of conference attendees. I think it was the challenge of trying to wow a very intimidating audience of peers that was driving them to put in so much creativity and effort.
posted by rongorongo at 11:38 PM on June 17, 2018 [1 favorite]