Director Terry Gilliam saw this film at the British Film Institute (BFI) while preparing his own adaptation of the same novel, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), and subsequently referenced some of this film's scenes in his own adaptation.
At the Karel Zeman Museum in Prague, Czech Republic, there you can see how the FX were created and see some of the props used in this movie.
The Muzeum Karla Zemana (Karel Zeman Museum) has undertaken a digital restoration of this film.
This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #1017.
Italian censorship visa # 42886 delivered on 6 May 1964.