Stories from the set

The creation of «Tron» involved the renowned French artist Jean Giraud (Moebius) and Syd Mead, who became famous for his work on «Blade Runner».

The computer special effects were made on a PDP-10 (Programmed Data Processor, model 10) machine with a total memory of 1152 kilobytes.

The programmers who worked on the film Tron later also made video games based on it.

Terminals of some old computers had a Trace On (TRON) button for line-by-line tracing of program execution (and, accordingly, TROFF). However, the director claims that the program's name "Tron" came from an abbreviation of the word "Electronic."

In one of the episodes, the game "Pac-Man" can also be noticed on the display of one of the terminals.

For the first time in the history of cinema, this feature film demonstrated computer animation of a face, although largely simplified.

The film became a milestone in the development of CGI in cinema, paving the way for fully computer-generated films. According to John Lasseter, creator of the first such film, Toy Story, "without Tron there would be no Toy Story."

The film was excluded from the list of Oscar nominees in the Best Special Effects category because at the time the Academy considered the use of computers to be cheating.