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Babe (1995) More at IMDbPro »

• The talking pig is a combination of 48 real Yorkshire pigs plus an animatronic double. A makeup artist added toupee and eyelashes to each, and computer digitization manipulated pictures of the snout to make the pig appear to talk.
  
  
• When James Cromwell was handed the screenplay for Babe, he thumbed through it to see how many lines he had. He saw that he didn't have that many, he decided that he would do it as a nice easy film. What he didn't realize was that he would have more screen time in this film than any of his previous films.
  
  
• The man who buys three of Fly's puppies is head animal trainer Karl Lewis Miller.
  
  
• The sheepdog championship takes place at the Kingsmith Fairground. The film is based on a novel by Dick King-Smith. The electrician on the way to the fairground is named Dick.
  
  
• Because baby pigs grow so fast, 48 pigs were used during filming for the role of Babe.
  
  
• James Cromwell, a longtime vegetarian, decided to become a vegan after starring in the movie.
  
  
• Most films released in German-speaking areas in Europe are dubbed in Germany with the same standard German pronunciation. This film, however, was also released in a special version that was re-dubbed for Austria. Each of the animals speaks in a very specific regional Austrian accent: Ferdinand the Duck sounds like a Tyrolean, Duchess the cat has a Vorarlberg accent and so on. The mice sing Styrian folk songs. The movie was quite popular with adults as well as children, since the accents and all the regional figures of speech used were quite hilarious.
  
  
• The film had 56 animal trainers on set to handle nearly 1000 animals.
  
  
• James Cromwell had only 171 words of spoken dialogue, and 61 words that were sung.
  
  
• The music for movie's theme song is taken from the Organ Symphony by Camille Saint-Saens, whose most famous composition is "Carnival of the Animals."
  
  
• The last film to date rated G to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
  
  
• A ten-year labor of love for director George Miller.
  
  

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