Trivia / The Smurfs and the Magic Flute

• Celebrity Voice Actors:
  • For the French version - Jacques Balutin, Jacques Dynam, Ginette Garcin, Henri Labussière, Jacques Marin, Michel Modo, Georges Atlas, Henri Gustave Elie Crémieux, Roger Crouzet, Michel Elias, Albert de Médina, Serge Nadaud, Angelo Bardi, Jacques Ciron and William Coryn
  • For the United Kingdom English dub - Richard Ashley, Ed Devereaux, Bill Owen, Vernon Leslie Morris, Yael Stern-O'Dwyer, Richard Pescud, Stuart Lock, Kalman Glass and Harry Dickman.
  • For the United States English dub - Ron Gans, Durga McBroom, Michael Sorich, Robert Axelrod, Dudley Knight, Theodore Lehmann
• Digital Destruction:
  • When the film was restored around 2010-2011, the opening titles were completely and digitally re-done for both the French and English UK versions. First, the first six seconds of the theme music is removed (usually when the production credit/logo would be shown). The animation of the Smurfs take place on a brown background instead of black (or blue in the English versions) and the yellow font of the French text was also used for the English version as well. Additionally, the shot of Papa Smurf was cut in half and slowed down purposely, so the text "by Peyo" (or "de Peyo") can be shown longer. Also, the first shot includes a URL to the official Smurfs website. Finally, the final shot of Peewit's tantrum is left un-restored, as are the closing credits for both the French and English versions. The English credits fare even worse with the frame-rate being choppy.
  • The 2019 restoration for YouTube restores the original opening titles for the French version, including the black background and original colored fonts, as well as the original animation of Papa Smurf. The English version, on the other hand, still uses the same digital font as the French text, only now the text is white. While Papa Smurf's animation is also kept in, the background is also black instead of blue. Additionally, unlike the French version, the URL is also kept in the English titles, which are used for other foreign-language dubs of the film on YouTube. Also in this restoration, the final shot of Peewit is plagued with ghostly interlacing, followed by the French credits used for both English and French versions of the film.
    • Unlike the previous restoration, this one also features a goof: during the "Peewit Wants a Smurf" song sequence, when Brainy is lecturing Peewit on how to speak Smurf, originally there was a shot of Johan doubling face-down on the ground and laughing. In this restoration, for unknown reasons, it was replaced with a shot near the end of the film of Peewit carving a fake flute on the ship back to the kingdom.
• Dueling Dubs:
  • This film has both a UK dub and a US dub. The US English dub was made in 1983 and was shown in theaters. The voice actors were a mix of voices that may be familiar to those who regularly watched "Kung Fu Theater" dubs as well as voice actors who would go on to achieve recognition in anime dubs and Western Animation (example: Cam Clarke for as the voice of Pirout (Pee Wee))^note Cam Clarke is well known as the voice of Max Sterling and Lancer in Robotech. and Leonardo in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. The UK English dub from 1979 had a completely different cast sporting thicker UK accents as well as electronically enhanced Smurf voices. The musical numbers were completely different in both versions. Today, only the UK dub can be found on DVD and Blu-Ray. But it is believed that the US dub is still in someone's warehouse.
  • The film was also dubbed into Brazilian Portuguese twice, with the latter being done for the 2011 DVD release. While the songs in both versions are left in English, the newer version only dubs "Peewit's Ballad".
  • It has two Italian dubs; curiously, recent releases keep only the first dub except for Peewit's final line that is kept from the second dub since the audio track was damaged in that point. Also, both dubs have the songs left either partially or entirely in French, as well as the original instrumental music for the Smurfs' party sequence replaced by another song ("La festa della luna") sung to the tune of "Yankee Doodle". Interestingly, the second dub (made by Gruppo Trenta in 1983) features the same voice actors who were used to dub the Italian version of The Smurfs (1981) cartoon TV series.
  • It was also dubbed into Latin Spanish twice; the first time in the 1980s and again in 2011. Interestingly, both dubs not only use nearly the same voice cast, but also most of the original voice actors from the Smurfs cartoon show (like the 1983 Italian re-dub).
  • The European Spanish version of the film was dubbed three times; once in 1979, again for a 1980 LP soundtrack and again for the 2011 DVD. In the 1979 dubbing, the first two songs (Peewit's ballad and "Gentle Lady") are left in French, while the 2011 DVD version has them both (along with the Smurfs' working song) in English.
• Self-Adaptation: Peyo himself co-wrote the film with Yvan Delporte.

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