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Trivia: To get the pale, colorless skin of the programs in the cyberworld, all the footage of the actors was filmed in black and white/grey scale, with the neon colors added in post production.

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Trivia: The sound that the Identity Disks make when being thrown was the recorded sounds of yelling monkeys filtered through a Fairlight CMI synthesizer. This same synth was also used on the director's cat to make the low growls the MCP makes in the background.

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Trivia: In the arcade, there's a shot of a man dressed in black going up and hugging a girl. Even though he's only seen from behind, this is actually a small cameo by the movie's director, Steven Lisberger. (00:17:32)

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Trivia: The character Alan Bradley in Tron was inspired by real-life computer scientist Alan Kay, one of the pioneers of modern computing. Kay helped invent the concept of the personal computer, including early ideas resembling today's laptops with graphical user interfaces. He was also instrumental in developing object-oriented programming, a key software design principle. Fittingly, Kay served as a consultant on Tron, bringing authenticity to its digital world.

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Trivia: The sounds of the Recognizers were created by running the sounds of real helicopters through a Prophet-5 synthesizer.

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Trivia: Before we got the sort of formless polygon shape of Bit seen in the movie, he was originally designed to be a floating ball with a face, as seen in some of John Norton's original concept art.

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Trivia: The sound that the light cycles make in this movie was created by award-winning sound designer Frank Saraphene by putting microphones on a couple of super sport motorbikes to record their sound, and then feeding that sound through Prophet-5 and Mini Moog synthesizers.

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Trivia: Before Tron became a Disney film, creator Steven Lisberger's studio developed an animated test featuring a glowing, backlit line character made from Kodalith film. The short depicted a "liquid neon" figure smashing two discs of light together. The team nicknamed him "Tron," short for "electronic," and this experimental test ultimately inspired Lisberger's idea for a full movie built around luminous, backlit digital characters.

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Trivia: After the flop of the 1979 Disney movie Black Hole, as well as the poor performance of the original Tron, Disney decided to stop making live-action movies for a full decade.

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Trivia: Director Steven Lisberger was inspired by the video game Pong and the stories of Alice in Wonderland to create this movie, using those stories to fantasize what it would be like for people to find themselves being thrown into a virtual world.

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Trivia: Many animators at Disney chose to boycott working on this film, out of fear that the use of computer-generated work and special effects and art would put the hand-drawn artists out of work and become the industry norm. This mirrors a lot of the current-day concerns about AI-generated art.

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