Movies & TV Facts for Kids
Behind-the-scenes facts from film and TV
Chewbacca's voice in Star Wars was made by combining sounds from bears, walruses, lions, and badgers.
Tangled (2010) cost about $260 million to make, making it one of the most expensive animated films ever produced.
The very first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929 lasted only about 15 minutes. Today, the ceremony often runs for over three hours.
Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated feature film, took four years to make and was released in 1995.
Frozen II earned over 1.4 billion dollars at the global box office, making it one of the highest-grossing animated films of all time.
Most films are shot and shown at 24 frames per second. Our brains blend these still images together so fast that we see smooth, continuous motion.
James Earl Jones, the voice of Mufasa in The Lion King, also voiced Darth Vader in the Star Wars films.
Films used to use blue screens for special effects, but green screens became more popular because digital cameras are more sensitive to green light, making it easier to separate the background.
The earliest surviving film is 'Roundhay Garden Scene', shot in Leeds, England, in 1888. It lasts just over two seconds.
A traditionally animated film like Snow White needed about 250,000 individual drawings, each painted by hand.