Frozen

Is Frozen your favourite film? Here you can find out amazing facts about the film.

1. Frozen was released in 2013.

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2. Frozen was the very first Disney animated feature film directed by a woman. Jennifer Lee co-directed alongside Chris Buck.

3. In the first film Elsa is 21 years old.

4. The film's musical scenes add up to a total of 24 minutes long.

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5. Frozen and Treasure Planet share the exact same release date of November 27th, twelve years apart.

6. During the song 'For the First Time in Forever', Rapunzel and Flynn from Tangled can be seen briefly, walking through the gates of Arendelle.

7. Olaf was almost entirely cut from the film during early development, however filmmakers decided to keep him.

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8. Elsa was originally written as a villain.

9. The names of some of the main characters, Anna, Sven, Kristoff and Hans were to pay homage to the author of the original fairytale 'The Snow Queen' by Hans Christian Andersen.

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10. Animators decided to bring a real-life reindeer to the studio in order to study it's behaviour, habits and mannerisms. They did this to make Sven's animation as authentic as possible.

11. A single frame of Elsa's ice palace sequence took up to 30 hours to render, it used 4,000 computers at once.

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12. Elsa's iconic ice gown was designed to look like it was woven completely from compacted ice crystals.

13. The song 'Let It Go' was fully written and composed in just one day.

14. In several international markets the title of the film was changed from 'Frozen' to 'The Snow Queen'.

15. Elsa's CGI ice palace stands at a scale equal to more than 50 storeys tall.

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There you have fifteen incredible facts about Frozen. Which one are you most surprised by, let me know in the comments or on social media.