Movies & TV Facts for Kids
Behind-the-scenes facts from film and TV
India's film industry, often called Bollywood, produces more films each year than Hollywood. Nigeria's Nollywood is also a massive film producer.
Foley artists are the people who create everyday sound effects in films — like footsteps, rustling clothes, and doors creaking — using all sorts of surprising objects in a recording studio.
Dorothy's famous dress in The Wizard of Oz was actually light pink, not blue. It appeared blue on the early Technicolor cameras.
Motion capture technology records an actor's movements using sensors on their body, which are then used to animate digital characters like Gollum in The Lord of the Rings.
Popcorn became the go-to cinema snack during the Great Depression because it was one of the few treats people could still afford.
Pixar's Coco was so well received in Mexico that it helped spark renewed global interest in the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) celebration.
The first drive-in cinema opened in New Jersey, USA, in 1933. Families would watch films from the comfort of their cars.
During filming of Jurassic Park, the full-sized T. rex animatronic sometimes shook on its own when water from the rain scene soaked into its foam skin, terrifying the crew.
For the famous hallway fight scene in Inception, the filmmakers built a real rotating set that spun the actors around, rather than using CGI.
A character's face in a modern animated film can have over 700 individual control points that animators adjust frame by frame to create realistic expressions.