“ From this perspective, the individual actors are merely bees in a hive; if not them, someone else. But this misses the most satisfying part of Price’s tale: that as early as the ’60s, when computers filled entire rooms and the rendering of even simple images took days, men like Catmull and Lasseter saw … something. For decades, they followed promising animation research like surfers stalking tasty waves, took repeated wrong turns, risked their savings for the most abstract of dreams, stuck with it and ultimately brought us a brilliant run of animated movies: “Toy Story,” “Monsters, Inc.,” “Finding Nemo,” “The Incredibles” and “Ratatouille” among them.”