The Black Cauldron/Trivia

Trivia

 * The first use of the APT process in a movie, which replaced Xerography at Disney.
 * The first Disney animated feature to use the multiplane camera in years.
 * The most expensive animated feature made as of its release in 1985, it cost $25 million in actual production costs, but returned less than $10 million at the North American box office.
 * The first Disney animated feature to employ computer-generated imagery. The dimensions and volume of the animated objects were fed into a computer and then their shapes were manipulated through computer programming before they were transferred as physical outlines the animators could work on. (Animated features with cels containing computer animation are probably rather rare as animation studios stopped using cels years ago.)
 * The first Disney animated film to get a PG rating, all the other movies had been rated G. The first Disney film to garner a PG rating was The Black Hole, although this was a live-action film, unlike The Black Cauldron.
 * The Disney sound editors began experimenting with newly-recorded sound effects, beginning with this film, to replace many of the classic effects heard in many animated Disney movies up until after The Fox and the Hound. This included newer, more-realistic thunderclaps (to replace the "Castle Thunder" sound effects used on most 1937-1981 animated Disney features), newer crashes and explosions, and more. However, The Great Mouse Detective (released the following year) made heavy use of the old Disney sound effects. After that movie, the classic sound effects (including "Castle Thunder") were officially retired from Walt Disney Feature Animation.
 * Tinker Bell makes a cameo in the film in the Fairfolk scequence.
 * The mush that Hen-Wen refuses to eat is actually cream of rice.
 * Acclaimed director Tim Burton did work on the film as a conceptual artist. None of his ideas, which included the Horned King speaking to two hand puppets to illustrate a schism in his psyche, were utilized, and he received no credit for his efforts.
 * First Disney animated feature to have closing credits since Alice in Wonderland. The earliest, but not the first, Disney animated feature to have closing credits is Fantasia, beginning five years later.
 * This film was shot using the Super Technirama 70 widescreen 70 mm film process, and is one of only two Disney films to have been produced in such a manner, the other being Sleeping Beauty.
 * Elmer Bernstein's orchestral score, which has never been released on CD, was made available for download on iTunes in 2006.
 * Some of the film's settings, aesthetics and character designs were recycled in the creation of the Gummi Bears television series.
 * The scene were for the two farm dogs, Tiger and Talbot getting Taran and licking his face in The Sword in the Stone, the two castle dogs getting Arthur/Wart and licking his face.