Anecdotes

This film introduced Disney's technical innovation, the multiplane camera.

Hayao Miyazaki has called The Old Mill his favorite Disney film.

The Old Mill is represented at Fantasyland at Disneyland Paris by a building resembling a Dutch windmill, which serves drinks and snacks.

Included as an extra in the Disney DVD of Bambi (1942).

This was the last Disney short film to be made before the released of Walt Disney's first feature film Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937).