Light and Heavy (1991)

Interesting facts

Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 1 is a home video compilation released by Walt Disney Home Entertainment on November 6, 2007, containing 13 of Pixar's short films. It was followed by Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 2, which was released on November 13, 2012, and Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 3, which was released on November 13, 2018.

Background and development

Commenting on Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 1, John Lasseter said:

I am really excited about finally coming out with a collection of the Pixar short films because these have been so much a part of the history of Pixar. The early short films before Toy Story came out really shows the evolution and the focus of kind of the history of Pixar and the development of the technology, the development of me as a filmmaker and a storyteller, and then our continued dedication to creating short films after Toy Story and the…

Lasseter hoped that audiences will get a "kick out" of each of the shorts included in the collection, stating: "I hope that they look at them and just are surprised by how funny they are. All I think except one are basically no dialogue. It's like Chuck Jones said, 'With great animation, you should be able to turn the sound off and still tell what's going on.' And I think they're these wonderful little gems and they're really entertaining.

The version of Knick Knack included with this release was the censored version which was first released in 2003 with the cinema release of Finding Nemo. The censored version removes the exaggerated breasts on the woman on the "Miami" knick knack and on the mermaid sitting on the rock in the fish bowl. John Lasseter defended these changes by saying "It wasn't big bad Disney coming in and insisting we do this... it was our own choice.

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