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Trivia

 * Production lasted five years.
 * Only Austrafilm production presented in 70mm.
 * Ideas for the film date back to the early 60s.
 * The script was originally finished in late 1974. It drifted from studio to studio until Universal Pictures greenlit it in 1976.
 * It was also Universal's first animated feature film since Pinocchio in Outer Space in 1965.


 * The only Universal animated film to be produced in a 2.20:1 aspect ratio.
 * This film went through many concept changes.
 * The workprint ran almost three hours.
 * While the boy is a silent protagonist, Michael Wildshill provided the grunts for him.