Film

Inside The Works

2026 · 1h 23m · Documentary

Pioneering Computer Animation in a Long Island Mansion

In 1974, an eccentric millionaire by the name of Alexander Schure founded the New York Inistitute of Technology's Computer Graphics Lab. Housed in a one hundred year old pink mansion in Long Island, the lab made large advances in digital paint, animation, and attempted to create the first computer animated film twice in its lifetime. Kickstarting Pixar, creating the alpha channel, and creating art with every new tool they could lay their hands on, this is the story of the forbidden pink house in Long Island.

Edwin Catmull

Self

Alvy Ray Smith

Self

Carter Burwell

Self

Tom Sito

Self

Dick Lundin

Self

Amber Denker

Self

Garland Stern

Self

Wm. Maher

Self

Hank Grebe

Self

Paul Heckbert

Self

Robert Stuhmer

Self

David Lubell

Self

Mike Chou

Self

Jakob Bottoms

User Friendly (voice)

Ko Laluna

Dot Matrix (voice)

Charlie Pollard

T-Square / Ipso Facto (voice)

• Ziggy CashmereDirector · Producer · Editor

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Release date

May 15, 2026

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 23m

Genres

Documentary