TIL The squirrels in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory were real, not CGI. They were trained from birth and were each taught how to sit upon a little blue bar stool, tap and then open a walnut, and deposit its meat onto a conveyor belt.

http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Factory_%28film%29#Visual_effects



Submitted February 20, 2015 at 08:35PM by oprahsanalbeeds http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2wjwcx/til_the_squirrels_in_charlie_and_the_chocolate/