This is the first ever Australian animated feature film.
This animated movie took twenty-one months to make including all drawing and photography.
During production this 80-minute animated feature film had a production rate of about, on average, a minute and a half's worth of footage produced per week.
This film included the following statistics: 114,578 frames were photographed, 7,500 feet of color film was produced, an estimated 160,000 hand-colored drawings were drawn of which of these, 54,279 were utilized for the film. Artists used 55 gallons of paint, 192 erasers and 6,996 pencils.
The original development of this Australian animated feature film actually originated in the USA.