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Charlotte's Web (2006)

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• Most of the shooting was done in Victoria, Australia. As it wasn't the correct season in Melbourne during the county fair scenes, the trees surrounding the location were spray painted with non-toxic orange and yellow paint to make it seem as though it was autumn. And, rather than have extras getting motion sickness on the rides, the art department sculpted bodies out of polystyrene and took casts of their own faces that were put onto the dummies. These dummies were painted and dressed up and strapped into rides; going round and around for about a week - and no motion sickness. Each of their faces (about 5 of them) were on all of the 60 or so dummies.
  
  
• Chloe Greenfield auditioned for the part of Fern.
  
  
• The Australian extras in the County Fair scene were told at one point to make some sounds for the microphones to pick up, to sound like real Fair-goers. After one take with their normal accents, they were reminded to be American. Most promptly started just repeating, "Oh my God" and some other modern-day Americanisms.
  
  

• There were 47 Wilburs on set because the piglets grew up so fast. Also, each one was taught only one "trick", like to stare up or to walk a certain distance.
  
  
• The spider introduces herself as "Charlotte A. Cavatica," which refers to the barn spider's scientific name, Araneus cavaticus. The old scientific name was singular - Aranea cavatica.
  
  
• Tim Burton turned down an opportunity to direct so he could direct Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007).
  
  
• The emblem on Fern's red jacket represents the Brownie Scouts. The emblem was a "brownie" (elf) in a trefoil. Brownies are the level of Scouts for girls in grades 1-3.
  
  
• For security reasons, early prints of the film were shipped under the title "Bacon".
  
  
• According the the 2007 DVD Director's Commentary, Templeton's feasting at the fair sequence was expanded after a test audience missed the Sherman brothers song, "A Veritable Smorgasbord," they remembered from the 1973 Hanna-Barbera animated feature.
  
  
• Charlotte is voiced by model-actress Laetitia Casta on the French language version.
  
  
• Danny Elfman dropped out of Spider-Man 3 (2007) to score this film.
  
  
• The book that Fern was reading to the animals in the barn was "Make Way for Ducklings", by Robert McCloskey.
  
  
• The names of the two crows, Elwyn and Brooks, is a reference to author E.B. White, whose full name was Elwyn Brooks White.
  
  

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