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Hilarious Live-Action Re-enactment of Pixar’s Opening Credit Scene

Here’s a chap named Nils Solana doing his best to recreate Pixar’s famous pre-credit scene:

“I thank all the people who have made the success of this intro possible,” Solana writes (translated from his native Catalan). “Anyone who needs a good intro, contact me.”

And just so you come away from this entry having actually learned something, Pixar’s Luxo Jr. character from the sequence is based on the Angelpoise Lamp, a piece of industrial design with a fascinating back-story. We wrote it up earlier, here are the links:

The Story of the Modern Desk Lamp

Part 1: Its Invention was Based on British Car Suspensions

Part 2: The Intervention of a Norwegian Sewing Machine Factory

Part 3: Growing Into Luxo

Part 4: Why Pixar Chose the Lamp