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The film was a major influence on John Lasseter.	D
To inspire the actors, arcade games were placed on the production sets and could be played during do [...]	D
Principal photography began April 20, 1981, a week later than anticipated, in Los Angeles and comple [...]	D
Depending on the lighting levels, the depth of field of the 65mm equipment was sometimes as small as [...]	D
Development for the film first began in 1976 when Steven Lisberger found himself addicted to the vid [...]	D
While backlighting (which also went by the names "underlighting" and "bipack glow") has a long tradi [...]	D
Approximately 75,000 frames were used in the animation and compositing process, which was a huge num [...]	D
Made at a time that the Disney Studios were having financial problems, having had a string of box of [...]	D
Originally released in the summer of 1982, the abysmal return at the box office caused it to be re-r [...]	D
According to Hollywood Treasure: Comic Con-Quest (2010), Cindy Morgan traded her Yori costume for a [...]	D
The massive security door where Flynn, Alan, and Lora sneak into Encom is a real radiation door at t [...]	D
Even though he's not shown, the novelization of Tron states that Sark is present when the MCP derezz [...]	D
In total, 569 people worked on the film.	D
The information discs on the back of all programs were actually Frisbees, which used hand-drawn anim [...]	D
In the novelization, the final printout Flynn gets is very different from the one shown in the movie [...]	D
At the end of the movie, when Flynn gets his proof, both the printout and Dillinger's screen have th [...]	D
The programmers' cubicles at Encom were shot using the actual programmers' cubicles at The Walt Disn [...]	D
Some of the popular video games at the time were Ms. Pac-Man, Donkey Kong Jr., Zaxxon, Dig Dug, Pole [...]	D
"Gort, Klaatu barada nikto" is seen written on the wall of Alan's cubicle. This is a phrase from 195 [...]	D
Bruce Boxleitner (Tron) and Peter Jurasik (Crom) would later star together in another Science Fictio [...]	D
The British rock group Supertramp was to contribute to the movie's soundtrack but was unable to due [...]	D
Steven Lisberger says that if he could do one shot over, he said it would be when Flynn gives his en [...]	D
The building featured as "Flynn's" is in reality the historic Hull Building at the Northwest corner [...]	D
The "pulsing" flicker in some scenes in the computer world were the accidental result of a mix up du [...]	D
As Flynn sits down at Lora's computer terminal to being hacking into Encom, he says, "Like the man s [...]	D
HIDDEN MICKEY: At 1:12:26 in the "solar sailer" sequence , you'll see, for a brief moment, the silho [...]	D
The costumes were completely white with black lines on them, designed to have light sources put in t [...]	D
Peter O'Toole was approached to play Dillinger/Sark, but after reading the script he became very int [...]	D
Almost every shot in the film that uses human actors against CGI backgrounds is a locked-down shot. [...]	D
Before the orange is "de-rezzed" at the beginning of the movie, the following commands appear on the [...]	D
Co-writer Bonnie MacBird first studied computer programming with paper and pencil in the 1960s durin [...]	D
The scenes in the computer world were produced using "backlit" animation and computer generated imag [...]	D
Flynn's personal computer, which he uses to interact with CLU and hack into the ENCOM mainframe, is [...]	D
While breaking in to ENCOM, Alan Bradley makes an off-hand remark that Kevin Flynn is a "little like [...]	D
The 'Bit' characters assume the shapes of various uniform polyhedra: A dodecahedron/icosahedron comp [...]	D
The costumes in Tron achieved their iconic glow through a traditional animation trick known as "back [...]	D
When Tron emerges between two walls following RAM's death, they appear to be covered in circuitry bu [...]	D
Elements of Dillinger's world were based on computer imagery and circuitry. His personal helicopter [...]	D
In December of 1981, the production developed a contingency plan to make sure they met the movie's s [...]	D
The video game "Space Invaders" is a major influence behind the film.	D
One of the inspirations for the film was Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus.	D
David Warner played Dillinger as well as Sark. He also was the voice of the MCP, which was modulated [...]	D
During the ENCOM exterior shooting (where the giant door was), there had been radioactive spillage n [...]	D
The laser that de-rezzes Flynn was named Shiva, in honor of the Hindu goddess of creation and destru [...]	D
In the scene when Sark strikes the programme he is talking with to the floor, the Pac Man "gubbed" s [...]	D
Several actresses were tested for the role of Lora/Yuri, but they were often "scared away" by the co [...]	D
The film inspired a handheld arcade game entitled "Space Turbo" which was manufactured by Tomy and r [...]	D
Although apparently it's a minor detail in the plot, (at around 25 mins) MCP reveals to Dillinger th [...]	D
Those are actual Frisbees that the characters throw around within the game grid.	D
While computer animation was used in several scenes, the technology did not exist for a shot to cont [...]	D
The portable gaming device that Flynn briefly plays while Alan and Lora are talking to him in his ro [...]	D
The laser sequences were shot at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, which housed the largest laser i [...]	D
The "User" played by Dan Shor is listed in the credits only as "Popcorn Co-Worker", but information [...]	D
The term MCP, short for Master Control Program used in the movie may have been based on an old text- [...]	D
While the film was a commercial failure, the arcade video games based on it proved to be a tremendou [...]	D
The filmmakers originally approached Peter O'Toole to play Dillinger, but O'Toole wanted to play Tro [...]	D
Due to the poor return at the box office, following this film and its predecessor The Black Hole - I [...]	D
The name "Tron" comes from "electron," which is the basis of electricity. Some programmers have spec [...]	D
Although now regarded as a special effects milestone, in truth only about 20 minutes of Tron (1982) [...]	D
Yori changed the head cover for a head cover, Cindy Morgan why the change in headpiece in a statemen [...]	D
The look of the costumes was conceptualized by the great French cartoonist Jean "Moebius" Giraud, wh [...]	D
As long as the real and virtual worlds are controlled by the MCP, the whole movie is set in night ti [...]	D
During the films development, Steven Lisberger got to know several pioneering programmers. Bruce Box [...]	D
The DVD commentary notes that there is almost no camera movement whatsoever in any of the shots of t [...]	D
This was the first film to make extensive use of computer imagery.	D
In the initial scenes with Flynn at the arcade, he is playing a game he invented called Space Parano [...]	D
Various computer animation firms bid for the opportunity to work on this movie, yielding the four th [...]	D
When Flynn fights the program Crom on the Ring Game, this is clearly inspired by the traditional Bas [...]	D
The conversation between Flynn, Alan, and Lora above Flynn's arcade had to be reshot in order to add [...]	D
All the live action that occurred inside the computer was filmed in black and white, and colorized l [...]	D
The MCP's original form is shown using an Oliveri typewriter - most likely a model 3, produced from [...]	D
The film was disqualified from receiving an Academy Award nomination for special effects, because th [...]	D
Steven Lisberger and his producing partner Donald Kushner set up their own animation studio to achie [...]	D
Pac-Man makes a graphical and audible cameo on Sark's control screen just after the light cycles esc [...]	D
Director Steven Lisberger got the idea to make the film, while playing the original and simplistic v [...]	D
Jeff Bridges produced too much of a bulge in the crotch area in his computer outfit, so he was force [...]	D
Many Disney animators refused to work on this movie because they feared that computers would put the [...]	D
Sound effects designer and synthesizer Frank Serafine achieved the unique soundtrack by processing v [...]	D
Composer Wendy Carlos' score for the film was unavailable on CD for many years due to the severe deg [...]	D
The live-action cyberspace sequences were shot in Los Angeles, including on sound stages on the Disn [...]	D
Debbie Harry was among the actresses who were screen tested for the role of Lora/Yori.	D
In the novelization by Brian Daley, the story ended with Tron and Yuri aboard the Solar Sailer trave [...]	D
Because so few 65mm cameras were available at the time, flaws in the equipment were worked around. T [...]	D
Well-known conceptual artists Moebius and Syd Mead designed much of the computer world, including th [...]	D
Composer Wendy Carlos was a frequent collaborator of director Stanley Kubrick. She wrote the scores [...]	D
Publicity materials stated that the reclusive French comic artist, Jean "Moebius" Giraud, came to Lo [...]	D
Rather than using the standard blue- or green-screen backgrounds common today, the actors were shot [...]	D
Jeff Bridges (Kevin Flynn / Clu) and Bruce Boxleitner (Alan Bradley / Tron) are the only actors to a [...]	D
Steven Lisberger avoided using the word "cyber" in the film because he thought it would annoy people [...]	D
During the Solar Sailer's flight over the virtual landscape, it flies over a "lake" in the shape of [...]	D
Although this was Steven Lisberger's first theatrical film, he had directed an animated movie called [...]	D
Wendy Carlos' score was recorded using the same Moog modular synthesizer used for her groundbreaking [...]	D
As cited in "The Making of Tron" by Richard Patterson in the August 1982 issue of American Cinematog [...]	D
The ENCOM laser bay was real. It was actually the target bay for the twenty-beam SHIVA solid-state l [...]	D
Flynn's program is named "Clu". It was originally thought that CLU was named after an old programmin [...]	D
The reason that Tron is the only live-action feature to heavily rely upon backlight animation. To be [...]	D
The CGI computer screen shown when the orange is reassembled shows the connection between Lora and h [...]	D
Bruce Boxleitner's character is named Alan Bradley. Allen-Bradley was a company that manufactured fa [...]	D
While the formation of the light cycles was done with hand-drawn animation, the cycles themselves we [...]	D
When Sark is hit in the head with Tron's information disc, clock parts were dropped out of his helme [...]	D
TRON is also a debugging command in the BASIC programming language, meaning "TRace ON". However, Ste [...]	D
The first film since Ryan's Daughter to be shot entirely on 65mm. This resulted in a logistical chal [...]	D
The state-of-the-art computer used for the film's key special effects had only 2MB of memory and 330 [...]	D
The original plan was to have the circuit lines of the "good" programs glow yellow, and the "bad" pr [...]	D
In this film produced by the Walt Disney Company, Dr. Walter Gibbs started what became a huge compan [...]	D

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