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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, most rejecting it due to the sheer ambitiousness of it, 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.
 * Jack Kromen's first cut ran 154 minutes, on orders from Universal Pictures, Kromen cut it down to 132 minutes.