Beans of Egypt, Maine, The (1994)

Animal action in simple. In one scene a dog walks down the street and into a store with a boy. Later, Beal’s pregnant dog, Jet, mingles with the family. In another scene a little girl and boy find Jet’s puppies in a crawl space under the house. For the protection of the puppies, they were placed on heating pads and the takes for this scene were limited to two. When Beal goes into the chicken coup and disturbs the chickens, only the sound of the chickens is heard. No live chickens were on the set. The sounds were dubbed in in post production. In still another scene, Erlene’s father has a plastic bag full of tropical fish which he empties into a fish tank. Before he goes to jail, Ruby drives up in a huge truck with the body of a deer on the back. The body of the deer was fake with the head and feet of a deer obtained from a hunter who had previously killed the deer for food. In another scene, we see Erlene cleaning and gutting a raccoon for food. This was a road kill obtained from the State of Washington where the filming took place. In still another scene, we see Beal starting to clean and gut a lamb. The lamb had been obtained from a slaughter house where it had been killed for dog food. Two cows are seen in background scenes. The sounds of owls hooting and crickets chirping were dubbed in in post production. The Humane Society of Seattle represented American Humane on the set. Even though some dead animals were used in this production, none of them had been killed for the making of this film.