History Trivia / TheFoxAndTheHound

* PlayingAgainstType: That's right. The [[BearsareBadNews bear]] is actually voiced by Creator/ClarenceNash, the voice of ''WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck'' of all people!

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* CrossDressingVoices: In the first French dub, puppy Tod and puppy Cooper were voiced by women, namely Creator/MaikDarah and Creator/JackieBerger.

** A pair of cranes voiced by Phil Harris and Charo were originally planned as minor characters, but were cut for not contributing anything.

* RealLifeRelative: The Latin American Spanish dub has this for Tod and Copper, both as children and adults.

* TimeShiftedActor: As children, Tod and Copper were voiced by Keith Mitchell and Corey Feldman, respectively.

* RealLifeRelative: In the Latin American Spanish dub, the voices for adult Tod and Copper, Juan Antonio Edwards and Creator/ArturoMercado respectively, were brothers-in-law at the time through their then-wives who are sisters. Additionally and...ironically, Mercado and the voice for Vixey, Diana Santos, are now in-laws.

** According to animator Tom Sito, Vance Gerry was vocally against the decision not to kill Chief. When then-studio head Ron Miller told the story department "This is Disney! We can't kill a character!", Gerry countered with "But [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat he gets hit in the kisser with a freight train]]!"

* TroubledProduction: The film had many troubles going on with the production. Several veteran animators either retired or died early in production. Batches of animation drawings were stolen, leaving several scenes to be rotoscoped from pencil tests. Many of the studio's new young animators clashed with original director Wolfgang Reitherman's tough style, and while co-director Art Stevens usually sided with the younger animators, even he was adamantly against their insistence that the character of Chief should die in the film (Chief survives with a broken leg). These clashes drove Creator/DonBluth to lead an exodus of practically half the animation team, delaying its release by six months and turning him into Disney's ArchEnemy for a long while. Clashes still occurred between Rietherman, Stevens and Disney CEO Ron Miller, particularly with Stevens scrapping a planned song for the film performed by Phil Harris and Charo that Reitherman claimed was needed, believing the film did not have a strong second act; this ultimately led to Reitherman, who had directed nearly all of Disney's animated films since the 1960s and produced them since Creator/WaltDisney's death, to be KickedUpstairs. The film would still turn a profit, but the after effects of its production would carry over to WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron.

* LifeImitatesArt: Meet [[http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/real-life-fox-and-the-hound-best-friends-will-melt-your-hear Sniffer the fox and Tinni the Hound.]]

** Creator/DonBluth was assigned to co-direct the film until he and his colleagues departed from the studio in 1979. Scenes he worked on were the scenes of Widow Tweed milking the cow and her grabbing Slade's gun and shooting it.

* CelebrityVoiceActor:
** Creator/MickeyRooney and Creator/KurtRussell as the adult voices of the titular characters, Creator/SandyDuncan as Vixey, and Creator/JackAlbertson as Amos Slade.

-->I was standing up for the principles that the [[Creator/DisneysNineOldMen old Disney masters]] had taught me. The leaders didn't like that and they wanted me to shut up, and one of the directors said, "Why are you so vocal?" And I said, "Well, I don't think this is being very well run, and if you feel that I'm standing between you and doing your job, it is your job to fire me." And the production manager actually mimed ripping off my stripes, like "You were a golden boy and you are now disgraced!" Then they kinda looked at me and [[OhCrap I realized]] "Well, this is it, this is the end of a long thing that started when I was a kid", so I said, "Well, it's been..." and [[{{Beat}} I stopped]], and I couldn't think of how to finish the sentence 'cause [[DidNotThinkThisThrough it hadn't really been thought]]. The pause was filled by the director who said "...a disappointment!" And I went, "Yeah, a disappointment."