Rise of the Beavertron!

Réalisateur

Jean-Luc 'Vitesse' Villeneuve

Directeur de la Photographie

Gaston 'Le Flou' Tremblay

Bruitage (Sound FX)

Marcel 'Bruit' Levesque

Chef Électricien

Thérèse 'Étincelle' Gauthier

Accessoiriste

Pierre 'Bibelot' Castonguier

Director's Note“Shot on location in Beauharnois, Quebec, chosen, the studio said, because no town in North America guards its data more fiercely. Every stick of timber on the set was real French Canadian wood, as the Lumberjacks proudly reminded everyone, often. The beaver fur was, the studio insists, "donated."”

• The Beavertron was built by prop master Pierre 'Bibelot' Castonguier from French Canadian wood, beaver fur, three church organs, a fridge door and 412 vacuum tubes. It drew so much power that Thérèse 'Étincelle' Gauthier ran a cable straight to the Beauharnois hydro dam, and the lights of three villages dimmed every time the Beavertron 'thought.'
• The blinking lights on the Beavertron's face were Christmas bulbs on a hand-cranked drum. Two Attack Beavers took turns cranking it between takes and asked for a union.
• Sound man Marcel 'Bruit' Levesque made the Beavertron's thinking noise by dragging a hockey stick across a washboard inside a pickle barrel. The pickles stayed in the barrel.
• Director Jean-Luc 'Vitesse' Villeneuve shot the whole film in nine days, on the Diner's real basement set, and refused to shoot a second take of anything that had pie in it.
• The Data Queen's gadgets are credited in the closing titles only as "Supplied by a Friend." No friend was ever identified.
• Cinematographer Gaston 'Le Flou' Tremblay lit the Zombie Recruiters entirely from below with a single flashlight, which is why none of them are in focus. He called it a choice.
• The six Mounties in the final charge were real members of the local riding club in borrowed red serge. The horses were the only cast members who never fluffed a line.
• The giant Canadian flag behind the Beavertron was sewn by the Diner's waitresses from tablecloths, which is why it has a faint gingham pattern in close-ups.
• The bottle of Canadian whisky on the Beavertron's console was real. It was full on the first day of shooting and empty by the last, and nobody on the crew has ever explained the difference.
• The studio's press kit described the Beavertron as "built of the finest French Canadian wood and genuine beaver." Twelve newspapers printed it word for word; the studio has always insisted it was an innocent description of the materials.