{"id":1594,"date":"2007-12-12T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/jim-hill-talks-pixar-with-leslie-iwerks"},"modified":"2007-12-12T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T07:45:00","slug":"jim-hill-talks-pixar-with-leslie-iwerks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/jim-hill-talks-pixar-with-leslie-iwerks\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Hill Talks Pixar with Leslie Iwerks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just briefly, Jim Hill caught up with documentary filmmaker, Leslie Iwerks, and they chatted about the making of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepixarstory.com\/\"><span style=\"font-style: italic; \">The Pixar Story. <\/span><\/a>Here is an interesting tidbit from the article. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Of course, what&#8217;s kind of ironic about this screening being held in the holiday season is &#8230; Well, if John Lasseter hadn&#8217;t suggested that Pixar should pitch Disney on the idea of making this 30-minute-long CG holiday special (Which was to have been called &quot;A Tin Toy Christmas&quot; and starred the title character of that animation studio&#8217;s 1988 Academy Award-winning short, &quot;Tin Toy&quot;) &#8230; Well, there probably wouldn&#8217;t then have been a &quot;Toy Story.&quot;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Read the<a href=\"http:\/\/jimhillmedia.com\/blogs\/jim_hill\/archive\/2007\/12\/11\/toon-tuesday-the-story-behind-the-pixar-story.aspx\"> full piece here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tmnf_excerpt\"><p>Just briefly, Jim Hill caught up with documentary filmmaker, Leslie Iwerks, and they chatted about the making of The Pixar Story. 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Of course, what&#8217;s kind of ironic about this screening being held in the holiday season is &#8230; Well, if John Lasseter hadn&#8217;t suggested that Pixar should &hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,2,6,38],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jim Hill Talks Pixar with Leslie Iwerks - Upcoming Pixar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/jim-hill-talks-pixar-with-leslie-iwerks\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jim Hill Talks Pixar with Leslie Iwerks - Upcoming Pixar\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Just briefly, Jim Hill caught up with documentary filmmaker, Leslie Iwerks, and they chatted about the making of The Pixar Story. 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