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With the exception of 'The Adventures of Andre and Wally B' (essentially an anticlimactic quickie that lacks the narrative strength of later efforts), every one of the shorts use expression, music, and mood to convey a thousand words worth of dialogue.

The Adventures of Andre and Wally B (1984)ДЄs I sat watching the entire collection, I found myself continually impressed by the raw storytelling skills on display - even in the studio's very early days.

The collection features all of the shorts that have appeared with Pixar's theatrical releases, as well as some of the studio's notable early animated efforts and the bonus shorts that have seen release as home video supplemental features.

In fact, over the years, I've found myself looking forward to the studio's opening shorts almost as much as I do the films themselves.ДЄs such, cramming all of the studio's notable short films to date into one convenient package, 'The Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1' is a dream come true for fans like myself. Although they're often discussed as an afterthought to the features that follow, each has individually managed to tap into the same audience-pleasing voodoo that seems to mark all of Pixar's work.

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If only for their own films, Pixar changed all that, re-introducing the concept of pre-show entertainment with a series of animated shorts designed to precede their feature-length films.

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Although the animated short got its start in movie houses at the turn of the twentieth century (giving birth to such iconic cartoon characters as Mickey Mouse, Betty Boop and Popeye), over the years it all but disappeared from the cinema, pushed aside in favor of more movie trailers and a seemingly endless series of pre-show promotional announcements. Much has been made of Pixar's extraordinary twelve-year run at the pinnacle of feature-length animated filmmaking, but the studio's contributions to the world of short-form animation are no less remarkable.

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