: Art director Eyvind Earle designed the film with a unique "tapestry-like" look inspired by pre-Renaissance and medieval European art, such as the French manuscript Les Riches Heures du Duc de Berry .
: The project spent nearly the entire 1950s in production, costing roughly $6 million —Disney's most expensive animated film at the time.
: It was the first animated feature filmed in Super Technirama 70 , a large-format widescreen process that provided a greater field of action but required intricate mathematical calculations for movement.