The Secret of NIMH - crew, film crew

The entire team, the film crew of the film "The Secret of NIMH"
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
Timing: 1:23 (83 min)
The Secret of NIMH - TMDB rating
7.453/10
943
The Secret of NIMH - Kinopoisk rating
7.684/10
5833
The Secret of NIMH - IMDB rating
7.5/10
50000

Film crew

Director

Producer

Executive Producer

Rich Irvine
Executive Producer
James L. Stewart
Executive Producer

Editor

Jeffrey C. Patch
Editor

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Rick Kline
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Donald O. Mitchell
Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Original Music Composer

Photo Jerry Goldsmith #20734

Jerry Goldsmith

Jerry Goldsmith
Original Music Composer

Orchestrator

Alexander Courage
Orchestrator

Camera Operator

Jue Jiuliano
Camera Operator
Charles Warren
Camera Operator

Sound Effects Editor

David M. Horton
Sound Effects Editor

Visual Effects Supervisor

Dorse A. Lanpher
Visual Effects Supervisor

Character Designer

Buck Lewis
Character Designer

Sound Mixer

Donald O. Mitchell
Sound Mixer
Rick Kline
Sound Mixer

Animation

Skip Jones
Animation
Diann Landau
Animation
Vera Pacheco
Animation
Dave Spafford
Animation
Linda Miller
Animation
Heidi Guedel
Animation
David Molina
Animation
Emily Jiuliano
Animation
Kevin Wurzer
Animation

Production Manager

Fred Craig
Production Manager

Screenplay

Photo Don Bluth #73859

Don Bluth

Don Bluth
Screenplay

Will Finn

Will Finn
Screenplay

Novel

Robert C. O'Brien
Novel

Songs

Accountant

G. Thomas Baker
Accountant
Diana Adams
Accountant
Tom Irvine
Accountant
Elaine Miller
Accountant
Jan Goldman
Accountant

Assistant Director

Dan Molina
Assistant Director

Music Editor

Len Engel
Music Editor
Michael Clifford
Music Editor

Production Assistant

Caralyn Warren
Production Assistant
Carolyn Morris
Production Assistant
Charles Kurts
Production Assistant
Julie Spafford
Production Assistant
Bob Chevalier
Production Assistant
Edna Hartling
Production Assistant
Sarah-Jane King
Production Assistant
Mike Vest
Production Assistant
Terri Eddings
Production Assistant
Victor Solis
Production Assistant
David J. Steinberg
Production Assistant

Visual Effects

Tom Hush
Visual Effects
Diann Landau
Visual Effects
Bruce Heller
Visual Effects
Scott Santoro
Visual Effects
Hope London
Visual Effects
Barry Whitebook
Visual Effects
Jeff Etter
Visual Effects
Vincent DeFrances
Visual Effects

Animation Director

Photo Gary Goldman #73858

Gary Goldman

Gary Goldman
Animation Director

John Pomeroy

John Pomeroy
Animation Director
Photo Don Bluth #73859

Don Bluth

Don Bluth
Animation Director

Sound Recordist

Garry Ulmer
Sound Recordist
James Cavarretta
Sound Recordist

Visual Development

Photo Don Bluth #73859

Don Bluth

Don Bluth
Visual Development

Visual Effects Director

Fred Craig
Visual Effects Director

Production Executive

Mel Griffin
Production Executive

Background Designer

Don Moore
Background Designer
Ron Dias
Background Designer
David Goetz
Background Designer

Sound Effects

James Cavarretta
Sound Effects

Creative Consultant

Stephan Barnes
Creative Consultant
Richard A. Gabrio
Creative Consultant
Martin S. Jacobson
Creative Consultant

Color Timer

Richard Ritchie
Color Timer

Negative Cutter

Donah Bassett
Negative Cutter

Foley

Layout

Larry Leker
Layout

Score Engineer

John Richards
Score Engineer

Lyricist

What's left behind the scenes

  • According to the farmer’s wife, the abbreviation N.I.M.H. stands for the National Institute of Mental Health.
  • The film used 1078 backgrounds.
  • The film used over 600 colors. 26 colors were used solely for the image of Mr. Ages.
  • The main character's name was changed from Mrs. Frisby to Mrs. Brisby to avoid legal issues with Frisbee manufacturers. Unfortunately, this was done late in the production, and because it was impossible to rewrite all the lines with the character's name, the change from Frisby to Brisby was carried out by two sound editors.
  • The sword fight scene between Justin and Jenner is largely copied from the duel between the heroes played by Errol Flynn (1909-1959) and Basil Rathbone (1892-1967) in Michael Curtiz’s “The Adventures of Robin Hood” (1938). Some of its elements are copied from fight scenes in Richard Fleischner’s “The Vikings” (1958).
  • At the time of its release, “The Secret of NIMH” was the largest non-Disney animated project.
  • Animators Don Bluth, John Pomeroy, and Gary Goldman left Disney for this project. They made the decision after the project was rejected there as “too dark” to be commercially successful. Soon after, another 20 animators resigned. They were all dubbed “Disney defectors” by the industry press.
  • Initially, $6.5 million was allocated for the film's production, but the budget was cut during the process. Gary Goldman and the film's producers mortgaged their own homes to raise the necessary $700,000 that was lacking. In any case, the film's budget was less than $7 million, i.e., approximately half of what the company Disney spent on each animated film.
  • At the time of its release, "Secrete N.I.M.H." was the largest non-Disney animated project.
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