Placing yourself in a Disney movie on your video chats is easy. If you are a big Disney fan, you'll want to try out these 14 Pixar movie Zoom backgrounds to add some magic to your next call.

You can even make your chats a little more interesting by changing your virtual background. Our images in this piece are a bit smaller, but the ratio is preserved.Using Zoom to set up video calls with your friends is a helpful way to stay in touch from a distance. (Note, the preferred Zoom background is 1920px by 1080px, or a 16:9 aspect ratio. To help you do just that, we’ve assembled 10 images from an assortment of movies, both classic and contemporary, providing visual shortcuts to cinephile cred, as well as a way to keep your compatriots entertained while you’re busy gazing at each other so as not to gaze into the abyss. And by personalizing your Zoom background with iconic settings from your favorite films, you can inhabit them in a whole new way. That’s the beauty of film, friends: It lets us escape such grim realities, plucking us out of our day-to-day and dropping us into new worlds. None of us have much to say to each other, and we have all the time and desire in the world to say it.

This new normal presents a problem for those of us fortunate enough to still have jobs and/or friends: Face-to-face interaction is only ever a Zoom call away, making meetings that could’ve been emails (or hangouts that could’ve been “We should hang out sometime!”) an ever-present problem amid all the soul-snuffing isolation. Zoom, for all its privacy and security issues, has rocketed to household-name status in the days of social distancing, becoming the go-to digital meeting hub for personal and professional purposes alike.

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