Surely there was a backup system, though, right? Were they able to stop the bleed? Nope, 90% of the movie was gone. Oren Jacob, the associate technical director of the film, got on the horn to the systems crew with a panicked “Pull the plug!” They did. Pixar folks watched characters and sequences disappear in front of their eyes. ![]() The film was well underway when an unnamed Pixar employee who was trying to delete unneeded files accidentally applied the “remove” command to the root files of the film. Something (sort of) like that actually did happen during the making of “Toy Story 2.” (There are a several retellings of the story out there, from an in-depth interview on The Next Web to the simplified, animated version in the “Toy Story 2” extras shown below.) ![]() A newborn baby saving an entire animated film production from unprecedented disaster? Sounds a bit like the plot of a Pixar short, doesn’t it?
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