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The year the world changed under the four men’s feet.
Hover any circle below for the full event. Use the filters to isolate categories — the lunch itself stays put. The gold band marks the summer window the meeting fell inside.
The exact date of the meeting is not on the record. Andrew Stanton has said only “the summer of 1994.” July 14 is plotted here as the most dramaturgically rich window: World Cup in the U.S., Forrest Gump in theaters, Katzenberg weeks from leaving Disney.