The Secret of NIMH

Don Bluth, John Pomeroy, and Gary Goldman all left Disney to pursue this project, which had originally been rejected by their former employer as "too dark" to be a commercial success. They were followed soon after by twenty other Disney animators, dubbed "The Disney Defectors" by the trade press.

Mr. Ages's cast is on his left leg, but when seen through Nicodemus' "crystal ball" the cast is on the right leg (flopped shot).

The production storyboards are used for background in the end credits.

In the late 1990s VHS and DVD prints in addition to the 2003 reissue of the DVD release, the United Artists logo is plastered with the 1994 variant.

Edited into An American Tail (1986)