I think everybody remembers their first Pixar short. For me it was the Oscar-winning Geri's Game, which I still have on my VHS copy of A Bug's Life and which thoroughly amused my nine year-old brain ...

While audiences in cinemas impatiently await the main feature, the folks at Pixar Studios often sneak in a short film, which sometimes turns out to be almost better than the main attraction itself.

As Toy Story director John Lasseter tells it, his first CGI short, 1984's primitive character interaction "The Adventures Of André & Wally B.," bowled over a technically focused industry that had ...