Movies & TV Facts for Kids

Sound designers recorded real car engines, jet turbines, and animal sounds to create the Transformers robot noises.

Merida's curly red hair in Brave was so complicated that Pixar had to create entirely new software just to animate it.

One of the first colour films was A Trip to the Moon (1902), which was hand-painted frame by frame.

The Minion language in Despicable Me is called Minionese and borrows words from English, French, Spanish, Italian, and even Korean.

Many of the original Harry Potter movie sets still exist at the Warner Bros. Studio Tour near London, including Diagon Alley.

Princess Leia's famous hair buns in Star Wars were inspired by hairstyles of Mexican revolutionary women from the early 1900s.

Edna Mode's "no capes" rule in The Incredibles was inspired by real fashion designer wisdom about impractical clothing.

It took over four years to create the special effects for Gravity (2013) because the weightlessness had to look completely real.

"When You Wish Upon a Star" from Pinocchio (1940) became the official theme song for the Walt Disney Company.

In Zootopia, Disney animators created unique fur patterns for every single animal in crowd scenes — no two are the same.