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From: thant@horus.esd.sgi.com (Thant Tessman)
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Subject: Re: Stupid Question re Luxo Jr
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Date: 7 Jun 91 18:04:06 GMT
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In article <1991Jun6.200406.9520@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>, cjl@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Charles J. Lord) writes:

Dumb question #3894645:

> I was watching Sesame Street with my 5-year-old the other day and
> saw some animated shorts of a pair of (Luxo?) lamps.  One short had
> a larger and smaller lamp playing with a ball (balloon?), when the
> smaller lamp rolls a bowling ball to the larger lamp, pushing it out
> of frame.  Being one of the three people on this group that *hasn't*
> seen Luxo Jr, I have to ask: Were these scenes from LJ?  They were
> certainly impressive enough.


They were the same lamps.  But they weren't scenes from the movie.
My guess is that they were made special for Sesame Street by Pixar.

I got a real kick out them.

thant@sgi.com