52 Fans Are Pointing Out Hidden Details and Jokes in Beloved Cartoons and Animated Films

As we’ve seen with Hercules, Disney (and other production houses) made sure to stick to the facts and keep their films, fictional as they are (we’re dealing with talking animals and all), historically accurate. Here is another fine example from the film An American Tail.

What’s the historically accurate detail in this scene, you ask? It’s the Statue of Liberty. The famous sculpture as we know it today has a green-grey color. However, the statue’s original color was a shade of copper (as you’ve probably learned in a school field trip). Over the years, a process of oxidization took place, changing the monument’s color. The movie takes place in 1885, when the statue was completed, which is why it features its original color.