Talk:The Adventures of André & Wally B.

More computers at Project Athena

My (strong) memory is that quite a few more than 10 VAX 11/750's were used at Project Athena; I had just installed the first batch of 50 machines, and they were mostly idle at that moment; I think we sucked most of the machines into the rendering. My guess would be it was more like 40 systems.

IIRC, I was involved in making this happen at the Project Athena end. Sam Leffler had given us a Berkeley UNIX tutorial, and I think the contact was between him and myself. I haven't tried to verify this by going into antique mail archives to see if I have email around or not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JimGettys (talk • contribs) 23:41, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Why the references to being released before Brazil?

It was released before thousands of movies, why reference Brazil specifically?

The short was released with Brazil. But this data is unsourced, so it could be false. --Carniolus (talk) 12:34, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

SIGGRAPH 1984 audience

I can see why perhaps it makes sense to mention George Lucas having been in the audience, but what possible significance is there to Linda Ronstadt having been there?

Orphaned references in The Adventures of André & Wally B.

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of The Adventures of André & Wally B.'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "MSN":

• From List of Pixar shorts: Rocchi, James. "Closing Up the Toy Box?". MSN Movies. Archived from the original on July 1, 2010. Retrieved June 15, 2011. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
• From Hawaiian Vacation: Rocchi, James. "Closing Up the Toy Box?". MSN Movies. Archived from the original on July 1, 2010. Retrieved June 15, 2011. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 19:36, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

Released in 1984 or 1990?

I checked the revisions from the page and I discovered that an IP changed the releases dates of The Adventures of André and Wally B. to be honest. Actually during the 1990's, Pixar didn't made (during this time) newer, original shorts until Geri's Game, which was released on 1997. Another reason is that the graphics of the short film are more primitive than those that had been released in the 1990's. --AridiaPizarro (talk) 16:53, 8 September 2020 (CEST)

Origin of the title?

Although the title is said to be a "tribute" to the 1981 movie "My Dinner with André", I am skeptical that lore should be taken at face value.

There is a 1980 TV film "Jimmy B. & André" which seems a more likely inspiration of the form of the title.

Its plot has little resemblance to "André & Wally B." but that is also very true of "My Dinner with André". 2600:1700:CA10:18A0:8CB4:53FD:5AB1:B5CB (talk) 16:24, 4 January 2023 (UTC)