History Trivia / TheLastDaysOfConeyIsland

* DoingItForTheArt: It's a film that explains various things throughout the hard times of Coney Island and New York City in the 1960s, and it's a Ralph Bakshi film with no sugar coated ends. Ralph even made it clear that he's doing this for the art form of hand-drawn animation. And it's also impressive from a craftsmanship standpoint--Ralph animated the entire film ''by himself'' and also painted all of the backgrounds by himself, too!

* NamesTheSame: Shorty has the same name as a character from Ralph's previous film ''WesternAnimation/HeavyTraffic''.

* DevelopmentHell: Ralph announced the project sometime around in 2005. It stayed here for eight years up until the kickstarter project to help obtain funding he needed to complete the film.
* InMemoriam: The ending credits has a large list dedicated to dozens of the Golden Age animators Ralph Bakshi worked under and with in his past, including [[UsefulNotes/NoteworthyMGMCartoonStaff Irv Spence]], [[Creator/TerryToons Connie Rasinski]] Creator/JimTyer, [[UsefulNotes/NoteworthyLooneyTunesStaff Rod Scribner]], [[UsefulNotes/NoteworthyFleischerStaff Johnny Gentilella]] and many, many others.

* DoingItForTheArt: Its a film that explains various things throughout the hard times of Coney Island and New York City in the 1960s, and its a Ralph Bakshi film with no sugar coated ends. Ralph even made it clear that he's doing this for the art form of hand-drawn animation. And its also impressive from a craftsmanship standpoint--Ralph animated the entire film ''by himself'' and also painted all of the backgrounds by himself, too!

** Bakshi originally planned to animate the film "tradigitally." His son Eddie, himself an animator, had showed him how to use ToonBoom Studio, and the prospect of having what originally took a staff of 200 and a huge budget "in a box" greatly excited Ralph. This got thrown out when the film got into development problems.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Was originally planned as one of the first "tradigital" feature films, with Bakshi's son showing him how to do hand-drawn animation on a computer. This got thrown out when the film got into development problems.
** Ralph initially did hire a few animators to help him out on the film, but he eventually decided the film was so personal to him, that he let them go and decided to animate the entire thing by himself.

* FollowTheLeader: The upcoming cartoon ''WesternAnimation/TheHeadlessChicken'' is openly riding the coattails of this film, but more for its deranged art and animation style than its dark biographical tone.

* OneOfUs: According to Ralph, Matthew Modine, who is working on the film as voice talent, is a huge fan of Ralph's work (favorite film being ''Fritz the Cat''). This led him to not only pledge for the project, but also got other people to help pledge on the project.

* DoingItForTheArt: Its a film that explains various things throughout the hard times of Coney Island, and its a Ralph Bakshi film with no sugar coated ends. Ralph even made it clear that he's doing this for the art form of hand-drawn animation. And its also impressive from a craftsmanship standpoint--Ralph animated the entire film ''by himself'' and also painted all of the backgrounds by himself, too!

* InMemoriam: The ending credits has a large list dedicated to dozens of the Golden Age animators Ralph Bakshi worked under and with in his past, including [[UsefulNotes/NoteworthyMGMCartoonStaff Irv Spence]], [[Creator/TerryToons Connie Rasinski, Jim Tyer]], [[UsefulNotes/NoteworthyLooneyTunesStaff Rod Scribner]], [[UsefulNotes/NoteworthyFleischerStaff Johnny Gentilella]] and many, many others.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Was originally planned as one of the first "tradigital" feature films, with Bakshi's son showing him how to do hand-drawn animation on a computer. This got thrown out when the film got into development problems.

* DoingItForTheArt: Its a film that explains various things throughout the hard times of Coney Island, and its a Ralph Bakshi film with no sugar coated ends. Ralph even made it clear that he's doing this for the art form of hand-drawn animation.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Was originally planned as one of the first "tradigital" feature films, with Bakshi's song showing him how to do hand-drawn animation on a computer. This got thrown out when the film got into development problems.

* NamesTheSame: One of the characters is named Max, and he's a DirtyCop. Does that [[Videogame/MaxPayne ring a bell]]?