One Hundred and One Dalmatians - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[jim]

In the book, Roger is not a struggling composer but a financial wizard who helped wipe out Britain's national debt.

[toni]

Due to the commercial failure of Sleeping Beauty (1959), production costs needed to be cut. As a result, this was the first Disney feature film to use photocopying technology (Xerography), which made an animated film with this much visual complexity possible. It also set the visual style of Disney animation (a scratchy, hard outline look) for years until the technology advanced enough (with the production of The Rescuers (1977)) to allow a softer look.

[michele]

The final film for animator Marc Davis. After animating Cruella De Vil in this film, Davis went to work for WED Enterprises, designing for such Disneyland rides as the Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean.

[linda]

Bill Peet was assigned the task of writing the story, making him the first man at the Disney studios to single-handedly create the story for one of the animated features.

[harry]

This is Hamilton Luske's last Disney film he directed.

[jesus]

Disney Feature Animation later adopted "The Twilight Bark" as the name of their internal newsletter.

[cameron]

Art director Ken Anderson came up with the idea of overlaying cels of line drawings over the painted backgrounds to match the Xeroxed cels of the characters. For the next twenty years, all Disney features - with the exception of The Jungle Book (1967) and the animated segments in Mary Poppins (1964) and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) - would use this technique for their backgrounds. With The Fox and the Hound (1981), Disney returned to fully painted backgrounds, with a brief reprise of the cel overlay for Oliver & Company (1988).

[christina]

HIDDEN MICKEY: In the opening credits and also on almost all the Dalmatians.

[jim]

The birth of the puppies actually happened to the author Dodie Smith. Her dalmatians had 15 puppies, one was born lifeless and her husband revived it. However, they sold most of them, and kept only a small number.

[albert]

On February 11, 2015, a special screening of the movie was shown at Disneyland to promote the release of the Diamond Edition Blu Ray. It was held in the Fantasyland Theater and was hosted by Disney Historian, Tim O'Day, and Disney animator, Andreas Deja.

[kylie]

Clarence Nash (best known as the voice of Donald Duck) did the dog barks for this film.