The Secret of NIMH
Right before your eyes, and beyond your wildest dreams.
Country
Production
Budget
$7 000 000
Box office
$14 665 733
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Camera operator
Jue Jiuliano
Composer
Artist
Skip Jones, Diann Landau, Vera Pacheco
Audition
Editing
Jeffrey C. Patch
Whole Team (72)
Whole Team (72)
Short description
A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to transplant her home to firmer ground.
What's left behind the scenes
- According to the farmer’s wife, the abbreviation N.I.M.H. stands for the National Institute of Mental Health.
- The film used 1078 backgrounds.
- The film used over 600 colors. 26 colors were used solely for the image of Mr. Ages.
- The main character's name was changed from Mrs. Frisby to Mrs. Brisby to avoid legal issues with Frisbee manufacturers. Unfortunately, this was done late in the production, and because it was impossible to rewrite all the lines with the character's name, the change from Frisby to Brisby was carried out by two sound editors.
- The sword fight scene between Justin and Jenner is largely copied from the duel between the heroes played by Errol Flynn (1909-1959) and Basil Rathbone (1892-1967) in Michael Curtiz’s “The Adventures of Robin Hood” (1938). Some of its elements are copied from fight scenes in Richard Fleischner’s “The Vikings” (1958).
- Animators Don Bluth, John Pomeroy, and Gary Goldman left Disney for this project. They made the decision after the project was rejected there as “too dark” to be commercially successful. Soon after, another 20 animators resigned. They were all dubbed “Disney defectors” by the industry press.
- Initially, $6.5 million was allocated for the film's production, but the budget was cut during the process. Gary Goldman and the film's producers mortgaged their own homes to raise the necessary $700,000 that was lacking. In any case, the film's budget was less than $7 million, i.e., approximately half of what the company Disney spent on each animated film.
- At the time of its release, "Secrete N.I.M.H." was the largest non-Disney animated project.
- The sword fight scene between Justin and Jenner is largely copied from the clash between the characters played by Errol Flynn (1909–1959) and Basil Rathbone (1892–1967) in Michael Curtiz's film "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938). Some of its elements were copied from the fight scenes in Richard Fleischer's film "The Vikings" (1958).
- Animators Don Bluth, John Pomeroy, and Gary Goldman left the Disney company for this project. They made the decision after the company rejected the project as being "too dark" to be commercially successful. Shortly thereafter, 20 more animators resigned. The industry press referred to all of them as "Disney defectors."
- Initially, $6.5 million was allocated for the production of the film, but the budget was cut during the production process. Gary Goldman and the film's producers mortgaged their own homes to raise the remaining $700,000 needed. In any case, the film's budget amounted to less than $7 million, which is approximately half of what Disney spent on each animated film.
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