What if Pixar was founded in 1960?

Most people know that Pixar Animation Studios was founded in 1986 by Edwin Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith. But, in this alternate reality idea, imagine this: what if it was actually founded in 1960, starting as an Independent film company, before expanding into a whole film studio. Here's how it could've been.
==Changes==
*It would be founded by Phil Freeman and Marc Jackson (not real people, but just made-up).
*It would be known as Freeman-Jackson Productions (1960-1986), Pixar Pictures (1986-2006), Pixar Animation (1986-1996), and Pixar Animation Studios (1996-).
*Pixar would make distribution deals worldwide
**Pixar would make a North American distribution deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1960-1967), American International Pictures (1967-1979), Filmways (1979-1983), and Orion Pictures (1983-1987) before Pixar would get it's own distribution arm.
**Pixar would make an Overseas distribution deal with The Rank Organisation (1964-1995) and Astral Films (1988; a Bug's Life only; Canada) before making a deal with Disney.
*The company would be sold in 1986 to Edwin Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith.
*Pixar would've owned the Betty Boop and Popeye cartoon library from Paramount.
*But as Disney bought Pixar in 2006, the live-action Pixar would close and it's pre-1986 live action library would get sold back to MGM.
*it's eight films (A Bug's Life, Ratatouille, Wall-E, Up, Brave, Inside Out, The Good Dinosaur, Coco) would be made into Live-action films before getting Animated Remakes.
**A Bug's Life would be a 1988 American/Canadian Live-action/animated film produced by Nelvana and Pixar worldwide and distributed by Pixar itself in the USA, Astral Films in Canada and the Rank Organisation Overseas.
**Wall-E would be a 1967 American live-action film produced by Phil Freeman Productions and distributed by AIP.
**Brave would be a 1964 British-American live-action film produced by Freeman-Jackson Productions and distributed by MGM in North America and the Rank Organisation Overseas.
**Coco would be a 1992 Mexican-American live-action film produced by Pixar worldwide and distributed by Pixar itself in the USA, Canada and Mexico and the Rank Organisation overseas, followed by a 1995 sequel called "Coco 2: To Argentina" and an animated 2017 remake.
*Onward would have a "G" rating in Australia.
*Pixar's sequels (such as Toy Story 3 and Incredibles 2) will never exist with Numbers. the AU version has Pixar's sequels without Numbers and different release dates
**Toy Story 2 would be known as Jessie Toy and released on November 12, 1997
**Toy Story 3 would be known as Sunnyside Day Care and released on October 3, 2002
**Cars 2 would be known as The Japanese Cars and released on September 14, 2010
**Monster's University would be known as Young Monsters and released on September 9, 2011
**Finding Dory would be known as Dory's Story and released on April 1, 2014
**Cars 3 would be known as Jackson Storm and released on June 30, 2016
**Incredibles 2 would be known as Evelyn and released on April 17, 2017
**Toy Story 4 would be known as Toys in the House and released on March 31, 2018
*But rather than the other distributors, Pixar would distribute the other companies' films
**Pixar would distribute all Carolco films rather than TriStar or the others.
***Artisan Entertainment (as IVE/Live) would distribute Carolco's films on home video with Pixar from 1989 to 1996 in North America.
**Pixar would distribute all Castle Rock Entertainment films until 1999 rather than Columbia Pictures.
**Pixar would distribute all De Laurentiis Entertainment Group films until 1989, when Carolco bought DEG.
*Pixar's Cancelled films would be released.
**a different version of Toy Story 3 would be known as In Taiwan and would've be released on July 12, 2009
**1906 would be released on December 12, 2006 by Pixar in North America and Warner Bros. Overseas and would be the final live-action film made by Pixar.
**Newt would get released on June 1, 2019
**ShadeMaker would get released on October 11, 2013
*adaptions of Brave would be a franchise (a series of animated short films (1968-1974), Television series (1979-2011, 2013-2017), a CGI Animated film (2012) the CGI animated sequel (2018) and an Animated TV series (2019–present))
**animated short films the adventures of Merida would be co-produced with DePatie–Freleng Enterprises from 1968 to 1974.
**Kingdom for Merida would get aired from 1979 to 1984, and revived from 1990 to 1997.
**Scottish Princess Merida would get aired from 2007 to 2011, and revived from 2013 to 2017.
**the animated TV adaption of Brave would get aired from 2019 to present.
*Coco would never win the Oscar for Best animated feature, losing it to DreamWorks' The Boss Baby on March 4, 2018.
*Pixar's Home Entertainment would be formed in 1980
**it would be known as Pixar Video (1980-1983), Carolco-Pixar Home Video (1983-1995), and Pixar Home Entertainment (1995–present)
*Luxo Jr. would be created by Pixar and DePatie–Freleng Enterprises in 1969
*Pixar would be the owners of the pre-1950 Noveltoon library.
==Distribution Deals==
*Carolco Pictures (1985-1995)
*De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (1986-1989)
*Castle Rock Entertainment (1989-1998)
in the past, Pixar made distribution deals with the three studios. their libraries are now in the hands of other companies.
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