Movies & TV Facts for Kids

In the original script for Back to the Future, the time machine was a refrigerator, not a DeLorean car.

James Cameron waited over 12 years to make Avatar because the special effects technology he needed hadn't been invented yet.

Sulley from Monsters, Inc. has 2,320,413 individually animated hairs on his body.

The 1973 movie Westworld was the first feature film to use computer-generated imagery (CGI).

Baby Yoda (Grogu) from The Mandalorian is mostly a real puppet, not CGI — it took two people to operate him.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) was the first full-length animated feature film in movie history.

The beginning of The Wizard of Oz is in black and white on purpose — when Dorothy reaches Oz, the film bursts into Technicolor.

The first 40 minutes of WALL-E have almost no dialogue — it tells the story mostly through sounds and expressions.

The longest movie ever made is Logistics (2012), which runs for 857 hours — that's over 35 days nonstop!

The famous bullet-dodging scene in The Matrix was filmed using 120 cameras firing at the same time.