Hello, Dolly!

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• When director George Roy Hill heard about the turn-of-the-century New York set constructed for the film, he wanted to use the set to film a brief sequence in which Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Etta Place visit the Big Apple. The producers were proprietary about the set, and didn't want it to appear in another movie. 20th Century Fox, however, allowed Hill to take still photographs of his stars Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Katharine Ross on the set, surrounded by the extras (who appear it the old-time, tinted photos as city crowds) which were used in a montage sequence that served as a transition between the U.S. West and Bolivia sections of the movie.
• Leading UK DVD retailer HMV noted during an analysis of its 3rd quarter figures (July-September) for 2008 that "Hello, Dolly!" had sold more copies in this period than in the all the quarters combined for the previous 10 years. This was put down to the popularity of WALL·E which features clips from "Hello, Dolly!" at several key points.
• Movie Goof (continuity error): In the chase sequence in the Harmonia Gardens restaurant, Horace Vandergelder is seen entering the fireman's pole in an anticlockwise direction. When he exits at the bottom he does so in a clockwise direction.
• The Harmonia Gardens sequence (where the song "Hello Dolly" is performed) took an entire month to shoot.