Welcome to London Life. Have you ever wondered where those characters you see in films like Toy Story and The Incredibles come from? Well, now's your chance to find out. This week London Life talks to the curator of an animation exhibition that opened recently at the Science Museum. The Pixar exhibition takes people behind the scenes to show some of the processes that have to take place before these characters appear on our cinema screens.

You can download the programme script and an mp3 version at the bottom of this page.

Here are two questions for you to think about as you listen:

1. Do you think the exhibition is interactive?

2. Is the exhibition only for children?

Listen to London Life
	Animation exhibition

Words and expressions from the programme

interactive exhibition
objects in a museum that visitors are encouraged to touch, use and play with as part of the general display
Example sentence
The children loved going to the Science Museum to play with all the interactive exhibits.

animated characters
drawings of people and animals that seem to move
Example sentence
The fillm was very popular becuse it contained very funny animated characters.

3-D
if something is 3-D or three dimensional it appears to have length, width and depth.
Example sentence
He always watched 3-D films when he was a child.

to dip into
to have a quick look at something
Example sentence
He only had time to dip into the report.

sound effects
noises that are usually made artificially for films or dramas - they are not real but sound like the real thing
Example sentence
They knocked two coconuts together to create the sound effect of a horse walking.

Programme script (pdf - 11k)

Audio - Download 'Pixar' (mp3 - 1.5mb)