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Victor Frankenstein lives in New Holland with his parents and his dog, a bull terrier named Sparky. He makes amateur films and keeps to himself at school, where his classmates include his next-door neighbor Elsa Van Helsing and a boy named Edgar. Worried by his isolation, his father pushes him to play baseball. A new science teacher, Mr. Rzykruski, shows the class what electricity does to dead frogs. At his first game, Victor hits a home run, and Sparky chases the ball and is struck by a car. Recalling the lesson, Victor digs up the dog and carries him to a laboratory in the attic, where a bolt of lightning brings him back to life. Victor is elated and keeps the revived Sparky hidden there.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Frankenweenie (2012)
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- The puppets' mechanics were so small and delicate that in some instances the filmmakers had to have Swiss watchmakers create the tiny nuts and bolts.
- Around 200 separate puppets were used in the film, with roughly 18 different versions of Victor alone. The puppets had human hair, with 40-45 joints for the human characters and about 300 parts for Sparky.
- Christopher Lee, who had worked with Tim Burton on five earlier films, makes an appearance in Frankenweenie through a live-action clip from his own 1958 film Dracula.
- Nassor, Victor's classmate and the owner of Colossus the hamster, has a flat head inspired by Frankenstein's monster, and his voice and face resemble those of Boris Karloff, who played Frankenstein in the 1931 film.
- Development of a full-length stop-motion Frankenweenie dates as far back as November 2005, when scripts had been written by Josann McGibbon and Sara Parriott.
- Like the original short film, the feature version was shot in black-and-white, and many of the animation artists and crew from the 2005 stop-motion feature Corpse Bride were involved in the production.
