History Trivia / RaggedyAnnAndAndyAMusicalAdventure

* WriterRevolt: The guy King Kookoo says "Fire him!" to is a caricature of Richard Williams. It was added when several of the animators got fed up with his seemingly hard direction.

* BigNameFan: Creator/{{Gooseworx}} is a self-professed fan of the movie, and drew inspiration from it for her own creation ''WebAnimation/TheAmazingDigitalCircus'', most notably with character of [[CaptainErsatz Ragatha]].

** Ragatha of ''WebAnimation/TheAmazingDigitalCircus'' is modeled after the Raggedy Ann from this movie. Creator/MichaelKovach (who voiced Jax in the pilot) recorded his own cover of "No Girl's Toy" to celebrate the pilot receiving 20 million views.

** Ragatha of ''WebVideo/TheAmazingDigitalCircus'' is modeled after the Raggedy Ann from this movie. Creator/MichaelKovach (who voiced Jax in the pilot) recorded his own cover of "No Girl's Toy" to celebrate the pilot receiving 20 million views.

* ReferencedBy: [=HotDiggedyDemon=] sings "No Girl's Toy" in an episode of ''WebAnimation/BrainDump''.

* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: The vertically-challenged King Koo Koo claims at one point that UsefulNotes/{{Napoleon|Bonaparte}} would look tall compared to him. This line was based on the common myth that Napoleon was abnormally short. However, Napoleon was actually 5'5", so technically, he ''would'' be tall compared to Koo Koo, it's just that so would almost any other human.

** Didi Conn had laryngitis when she voiced Ann. Richard Williams asked it be left it because it worked for the more emotional scenes.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The film was released on VHS in the late 1980s and 90s, but copies are rare and it has never seen a DVD or Blu Ray release due to its current owners having no interest in making the investment. It's shown up on the internet here and there and -- since it was filmed in Panavision -- any festival screenings are forced to work with tortured theatrical prints to present it in the correct aspect ratio.

* TroubledProduction: The film was produced by a team of Broadway producers who'd never worked on a film, let alone animation, making it difficult for them to know what they wanted. The crew eventually assembled consisted mostly of recent art school graduates and veterans of theatrical shorts who'd never worked on a feature, including director Creator/RichardWilliams himself, meaning that everyone was at different levels of experience and ability. Williams, who could not work for a budget, balked at the initial proposition for [[LimitedAnimation UPA-style animation]] and insisted that, to get the storybook quality visuals he desired, he would need to have two fully operational units on either coast. This ambitious technique, plus the cost to fly Willaims back and forth between the two to supervise and for animators to mail their scenes to the New York studio, caused the once-minuscule budget to skyrocket, slowed the production down resulting in several missed deadlines. It confused the animators, with one unit sometimes completing a scene the same day it had been assigned to the other unit. Emery Hawkins, who animated [[SignatureScene the infamous "Greedy sequence,"]] got fed up and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quit halfway through]] reanimating the scene for the second time, forcing two assistants to finish it for him. When the studio told Williams that there was no money left to give the film his trademark ArtisticTitle, he cursed them out and animated it himself. Williams was eventually [[ExecutiveMeddling fired and replaced]] at the tail end of production simply to get it finished.

* TroubledProduction: The film was produced by a team of Broadway producers who'd never worked on a film, let alone animation, making it difficult for them to know what they wanted. The crew eventually assembled consisted mostly of recent art school graduates and veterans of theatrical shorts who'd never worked on a feature, including director Creator/RichardWilliams himself, meaning that everyone was at different levels of experience and ability. Williams, who [[PrimadonnaDirector could not work for a budget]], balked at the initial proposition for [[LimitedAnimation UPA-style animation]] and insisted that, to get the storybook quality visuals he desired, he would need to have two fully operational units on either coast. This ambitious technique, plus the cost to fly Willaims back and forth between the two to supervise and for animators to mail their scenes to the New York studio, caused the once-minuscule budget to skyrocket, slowed the production down resulting in several missed deadlines. It confused the animators, with one unit sometimes completing a scene the same day it had been assigned to the other unit. Emery Hawkins, who animated [[SignatureScene the infamous "Greedy sequence,"]] got fed up and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quit halfway through]] reanimating the scene for the second time, forcing two assistants to finish it for him. When the studio told Williams that there was no money left to give the film his trademark ArtisticTitle, he cursed them out and animated it himself. Williams was eventually [[ExecutiveMeddling fired and replaced]] at the tail end of production simply to get it finished.

* MoneyDearBoy: The ITT Corporation, who funded the production, had just helped the CIA to overthrow the president of Guatemala (yes, really) and saw a significant drop in stocks as a result. They decided to invest in a piece of major entertainment to quickly recoup their losses, choosing the Literature/RaggedyAnn character because of her recognizably. They pushed production duties onto their publishing arm the Bobbs-Merrill Company and had it distributed through 20th Century Fox to downplay their involvement.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The film was released on VHS in the late 1980s and 90s, but copies are rare and it has never seen a DVD or Blu Ray release due to it's current owners having no interest in making the investment. It's shown up on the internet here and there and -- since it was filmed in Panavision -- any festival screenings are forced to work with tortured theatrical prints to present it in the correct aspect ratio.

* MissingEpisode: As detailed below, the original negative of the film disappeared shortly after the film was released with no clues as to where it could possibly be. Simon and Schuster, who now own the rights, have expressed no interest to invest in hunting it down, meaning that it most likely won't be found.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: ITT sold the Bobbs-Merrill Company and the rights to the film to Simon and Schuster for $1 once it was finished. The original physical negative of the film was lost in the kerfuffle. Because the film was a flop, Simon and Schuster have never had the interest in looking for it or releasing any version of it on home video.

* CreatorBacklash: Creator/RichardWilliams doesn't look back on the film itself with much fondness, admitting at a book signing apppearance that it "was a fuck up" in hindsight. At an appearance at Ottawa International Animation Festival, when another animator let it slip that he thought John Canemaker's Making Of book, ''The Animated Raggedy Ann'', was better than the actual film, Richard ''agreed'' with him.

* CreatorBacklash: Creator/RichardWilliams doesn't look back on the film itself with much fondness, admitting at a book signing apppearance that it "was a fuck up" in hindsight. At an Ottowa animation festival appearance, when another animator let it slip that he thought John Canemaker's Making Of book (The Animated Raggedy Ann) was better than the actual film, Richard ''agreed'' with him.

* ApprovalOfGod: While critical reception of the film was mixed-to-negative, ''Raggedy Ann'' creator Johnny Gruelle and his descendants loved it.

* CreatorBacklash: Creator/RichardWilliams doesn't look back on the film itself with much fondness, admitting at a book signin apppearance that it "was a fuck up" in hindsight. At an Ottowa animation festival appearance, when another animator let it slip that he thought John Canemaker's Making Of book (The Animated Raggedy Ann) was better than the actual film, Richard ''agreed'' with him.