Al Jolson talking out loud in "The Jazz Singer", Dorothy going Technicolor in "The Wizard of Oz", Neo slowing down bullets in "The Matrix"… As the first-ever entirely computer-generated movie, "Toy Story"'s place among cinema's gamechangers would have been assured, even if it had been a critical and commercial dud back in 1995. It was anything but, of course, and within a few short years, pixel-based animation was well on its way to easing out its two-dimensional ancestor, as traditional hand-drawn cartoons started to look like yesterday's news in the new world shaped by Pixar's innovation.1

But the medium isn't the only reason "Toy Story" broke the die-cast mould. Although Disney (who'd signed on to distribute the movie) had achieved plenty of recent box-office success by resurrecting th

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