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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) More at IMDbPro »

• While Quasimodo is singing 'Out There', the camera pans over Paris and zooms in on a street. In this scene, Belle from 'Beauty and the Beast' is seen walking and reading her book (walks out the bottom of the screen, to the right of the well), Pumba from 'The Lion King' is being carried on a pole by two men (carried out of the bottom of the screen, but left of the well), and another man (in a gray blue tunic) is shaking out the Carpet from 'Aladdin'.
  
  
• The gargoyles are named "Victor" and "Hugo", after Victor Hugo. The third gargoyle, Laverne, is named after Laverne Andrews, one of The Andrews Sisters.
  
  
• For the scene where Judge Frollo sings "Hellfire" and sees Esmeralda dancing in the fire before him, the MPAA insisted that the Disney animators make Esmeralda's clothing more well-defined, as she seemed nude.
  
  
• This film was the final screen credit for veteran actress Mary Wickes, who died before finishing all her lines. A vocal "stand-in" (Jane Withers) recorded her remaining lines.
  
  
• During the song "A Guy Like You", the gargoyles put a wig on Quasimodo, similar to wigs that actor Tom Hulce wears in Amadeus (1984).
  
  
• Directors Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale cast actor 'Tony Jay' as Frollo because they loved his voice when they worked with him on Beauty and the Beast (1991), in which he played a character named Monsieur D'Arque.
  
  
• The Latin chants heard throughout the movie are adapted from actual Gregorian chants, including the Dies Irae. A portion of the Dies Irae music can be heard in the scene where Frollo kills Quasimodo's mother.
  
  
• The old heretic is Jafar in his old man disguise from Aladdin (1992).
  
  
• GOOFY HOLLER: as the soldiers fall after Quasimodo pulls the rope they were climbing.
  
  
• In the novel, Frollo is actually the Archdeacon. The filmmakers decided to change the character to a judge because they felt it would make him more sinister to have control over the city and therefore would not be questioned in his attempts to destroy the Gypsies.
  
  
• After the film's initial release a limited edition printing of Victor Hugo's novel was also released. It contained original artwork and an introduction by producer Don Hahn.
  
  
• According to the audio commentary on the DVD, the gargoyle that resembles a warthog (which can be seen during the climactic battle atop Notre Dame Cathedral) is actually not Pumbaa from "The Lion King," but is the actual gargoyle that can be seen in that location on the real Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
  
  
• The film had its premiere on June 19, 1996, at the Superdome in New Orleans, utilizing six enormous screens, and was preceded by a parade through the French Quarter. The song "Someday" was sung over the credits by the group All-4-One, but the European version replaced them with the British band Eternal.
  
  
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame is the 34th full length animated film from Walt Disney.
  
  
• According to the audio commentary on the DVD, Frollo's horse's name is Snowball.
  
  
• This was Mary Wickes' last movie.
  
  
• Was 'Micheal Eisner (I)''s (former Disney CEO) favorite film.
  
  
• The opening scene, in which Clopin sings "The Bells of Notre Dame," was originally all spoken dialogue. After two revisions, it was decided that it was too dry and boring, and so was turned into a musical number.
  
  
• Bette Midler sang another version of 'God Help the Outcasts' for the soundtrack release. Various words are changed in this (such as instead of 'gypsy' the word 'humble' is used), in addition to these changes the parts sung by the people in the church are not in this version and the song is also much longer.
  
  
• This movie is full of computer animation and CGI backgrounds. All the bells appearing throughout the movie are 3D-rendered. When Quasimodo was singing "Out There" and sliding down the flying buttress, it appears 3D. During the "Topsy Turvy" sequence, the confetti and the crowd of hundred people are digital images. While Esmeralda was singing "God Help the Outcasts", the reflection of the rose window is computer-rendered. During the "Hellfire" sequence, the background flames are one example of CGI. At the scene where we see the millers home getting burned, the flames that big and appearing too fast were hard to animate traditionally, so probably the animators used computer generated images for this. Also when Quasimodo was rappelling down from Notre Dame to save Esmeralda, we can see hand-drawn animation combined with 3D scenes.
  
  
• The multi-plane effect was also used in several scenes. When Quasimodo was singing "Out There", the camera pans over Paris and seemed to look three-dimensional. Additionally, the camera also pans through the Parisian buildings and we see the Palace of Justice. However, the first use of the multi-plane effect was from Pinocchio (1940).
  
  
• This movie is considered to be the darkest Disney animated feature, along with The Black Cauldron (1985).
  
  

• SPOILER: Quasimodo's mother dies after being pushed to the ground and hitting her head. In the novel, this is how Esmerelda's mother dies.
  
  

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