Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 1 is a DVD compiling Pixar's short film library. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray November 6, 2007 with Ratatouille.[1]
Short Films[]
- The Adventures of André & Wally B.
- Audio Commentary by John Lasseter, Eben F. Ostby and William Reeves
- Luxo Jr.
- Audio Commentary by John Lasseter, Eben F. Ostby, and William Reeves
- Red's Dream
- Audio Commentary by John Lasseter, Eben F. Ostby, and William Reeves
- Tin Toy
- Audio Commentary by John Lasseter, Eben F. Ostby, and William Reeves
- Knick Knack
- Audio Commentary by John Lasseter, Eben F. Ostby, and William Reeves
- Geri's Game
- Audio Commentary by Jan Pinkava
- For the Birds
- Audio Commentary by Ralph Eggleston
- Mike's New Car
- Audio Commentary by Leo Gould (son of Roger Gould) and Nicholas Docter (son of Pete Docter)
- Boundin'
- Audio Commentary by Bud Luckey
- Jack-Jack Attack
- One Man Band
- Audio Commentary by Andrew Jimenez, Mark Andrews, and Michael Giacchino
- Lifted
- Audio Commentary by Gary Rydstrom
- Mater and the Ghostlight
- Audio Commentary by John Lasseter and Dan Scanlon
Bonus Features[]
- The Pixar Shorts: A Short History: (23 min.)
- Pixar's shorts created for Sesame Street starring Luxo Jr.
Easter Eggs[]
- From the Audio Options sub-menu in Set Up, press to the right to highlight a hidden American flag. This will play a short animation test created by Bill Reeves and Alain Fournier in 1986 called Flags and Waves used to recreate various real world qualities in computer animation.
- From the Subtitles sub-menu in Set Up, press up twice to reveal a beach chair. This will play the short piece called Beach Chair, animated by Eben Ostby from 1986 which explores various CG elements with a beach chair.
- On The Short Films menu, select Boundin' and press down to highlight a hidden Luxo lamp. This will play a Luxo Jr. pencil test.
Notes[]
- On this release, the first four shorts' color saturation was remastered. In addition, the first two shorts also had minor edits from their original masters as follows:
- The Adventures of André & Wally B. was formatted in 16:9 widescreen.
- The original master of Luxo Jr. (with the original Pixar logo) uses the audio from its Toy Story 2 version and is oddly missing the David Lindup "Take a Bow" fanfare in the original Pixar logo.
- Knick Knack uses the newer version that was featured with Finding Nemo.
- All shorts have audio commentaries, with the exception of Jack-Jack Attack. That's because its audio commentary is first released on The Incredibles Blu-Ray. Its audio commentary features Brad Bird, Bret Parker, Teddy Newton, and Mark Andrews.
- While the test shorts Flags and Waves and Beach Chair were included as menu easter eggs, Blowin' in the Wind was noticeably absent from the DVD entirely. This was likely due to copyright issues over the featured song by Bob Dylan.
- A Region 2 release features Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 1 in a box set with Ratatouille.
- This is the only Pixar Short Film Collection to have a play all feature available on its main menu. For unknown reasons, Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 2 and Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 3 omitted this feature.
Gallery[]
Region 1 original DVD back cover.
Region 1 reissue DVD cover.
Region 1 original Blu-Ray front cover.
Region 1 original Blu-Ray back cover.
Region 1 reissue Blu-Ray front cover.
Region 1 reissue Blu-Ray back cover.
Region 2 DVD front cover.
Region 2 DVD back cover.
Region 2 Blu-Ray front cover.
Region 2 Blu-Ray back cover.
Ratatouille box set Blu-Ray front cover.
Ratatouille box set Blu-Ray back cover.
Region 4 Blu-Ray front cover.
The DVD Main Menu.
The DVD Short menu.
The DVD Bonus Features menu.
The DVD Set Up menu.
The DVD Audio Options menu.
The DVD Subtitles menu.
Flags and Waves menu easter egg.