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How To Make a Chocolate River
9 years ago
Gene Wider recently passed on and one of his most iconic roles was Willy Wonka. Certainly in my mind, the most impressive effect in the movie is the chocolate river. Who wouldn't want to dive in with Augustus? I decided to look into how it was done.
In Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the Wilder movie), the river was more or less legitimate. What you're seeing on film is 150,000 gallons of water, chocolate, and cream. From what I read, the whole thing started to stink as the cream went bad.
The effect in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the Depp movie), the river was about 250,000 gallons, according to an interview with Vickers, the company behind the effect. The new stuff contained no actual chocolate or cream. The stuff was mostly water with a little less than 1% hydroxyethyl cellulose, .2% organic colors, and 1 part per million food grade biocide.
In Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the Wilder movie), the river was more or less legitimate. What you're seeing on film is 150,000 gallons of water, chocolate, and cream. From what I read, the whole thing started to stink as the cream went bad.
The effect in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the Depp movie), the river was about 250,000 gallons, according to an interview with Vickers, the company behind the effect. The new stuff contained no actual chocolate or cream. The stuff was mostly water with a little less than 1% hydroxyethyl cellulose, .2% organic colors, and 1 part per million food grade biocide.
