In its first year of eligibility, Pixar’s first feature film, Toy Story, has been added to the National Film Registry according to the head of the Library of Congress, James Billington. Each year the Librarian of Congress, advised by the National Film Preservation Board, selects up to 25 films that are culturally, historically or aesthetically significant to be added to the Registry. For each title named to the Registry, the Library of Congress works to ensure that the film is preserved for all time. This is Pixar’s second film to be added the the Registry; the short Tin Toy was added in 2003. Other recent animated additions to the Registry include Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Warner Brothers’ One Froggy Evening, and Max and Dave Fleischer’s classic Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor.

Of Toy Story, the NFR says: “This film changed animation’s face and delivery system as the first full-length animated feature to be created entirely by artists using computer tools and technology. Andy’s current toys have to learn to live with his new favorite playmate, ‘to infinity and beyond,’ galactic superhero Buzz Lightyear.”