17 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About “The Wizard Of Oz”

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/27/14 at 8:30pm

Here we go again. Yet another infographic claiming hitherto "unknown" facts about the Wizard of Oz...




17 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About “The Wizard Of

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[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 1/27/14 at 8:33pm

I just...

I can't....

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[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/27/14 at 8:51pm

I heard that there was more than one pair of ruby slippers and that "over the Rainbow" was almost cut from the movie!

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 1/27/14 at 9:10pm

I heard a midget hung himself and nobody noticed on the set while they were filming despite the fact that the shot in question shows the three actors walking directly towards the body that is clearly a body and not a bird.

And Shirley Temple was supposed to be Dorothy.

And there's a secret ending that shows Dorothy getting out of bed and finding the ruby slippers waiting for her there.

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/27/14 at 9:22pm

I heard the movie was never actually made. The whole thing was just another Hollywood rumor.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/27/14 at 9:24pm

I heard the Wicked Witch was terribly misunderstood.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 1/27/14 at 10:23pm

I heard Rob Marshall was the original director but was replaced by Victor Fleming sometime after shooting began. Mr. Marshall's "all in her head" concept was kept, however.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/27/14 at 10:30pm

El Oh Elphaba

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/27/14 at 10:40pm

Barnaby Ebsen got hay fever from the oil can and was replaced by a cup of Folgers.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 1/27/14 at 10:59pm

This is what that kid from that show looks like now

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/27/14 at 11:19pm

Link included in OP now. (Here too.)

The facts are eh, but the gifs are funsy.


17 Things You Probably Didn?t Know About ?The Wizard Of Oz?

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Posted: 1/28/14 at 3:40pm

Apple Juice?

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 1/28/14 at 3:49pm

Yeah, I had trouble getting past that one, too. I'm pretty sure nothing actually spewed out of her shoes.

Also, what "white dress"? Her blouse?

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 1/28/14 at 4:05pm

If you had visited the set you would notice that a lot of the colors, from costumes to sets to makeup, would look wrong due to the colors photographed in Technicolor. Just check out the pair of ruby slippers at the Smithsonian. They are a very dark burgundy. If they had been made in the red that we see in the finished film they would have appeared almost orange on the screen.

As for the sparks, the final effect was rotoscoped. Most likely something would have had to shoot out of the shoes, or from that general area, to give the effects animators something to essentially trace over. So what we see in the final film is animation drawn over something, which I guess could have been apple juice.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 1/28/14 at 4:22pm

I was confused by the mention of a white "dress." I assume they mean the blouse. (Though, interestingly, in the book she's given a new, green dress in Emerald City, which turns out to be white once she's taken off the green glasses.)

And I get the rotoscoping; I just don't see why anything would have to physically shoot out of the shoes if it's an optical effect (any more than Glinda's bubble needed to dangle from a string in Munchkinland). But I can believe it was apple juice. In fact, I'd like to believe it.



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[doodlenyc]

Posted: 1/28/14 at 4:27pm

I learned the ruby slippers jizzed on the witch.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 1/28/14 at 4:28pm

"I was confused by the mention of a white "dress." I assume they mean the blouse. (Though, interestingly, in the book she's given a new, green dress in Emerald City, which turns out to be white once she's taken off the green glasses.) "

As does the ribbon she ties around Toto's neck while in the Emerald City. The Wizard even admits later that the glasses were what made the Emerald City live up to its name. Interestingly, Baum kept the idea of the glasses for the next book, but did indeed fill the Emerald City with all the jewels that the Wizard said weren't there. I don't think the glasses are ever mentioned again after the second book. Baum didn't seem all that concerned with continuity as the series progressed.

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/28/14 at 5:57pm

Yes, the blouse was a pale pink, not white.

No, apple juice didn't physically come out of the shoes. According to what I've heard, they filmed apple juice spewing out of a hidden opening with a bright light hitting it over a black background, then tinted it yellow and seriously upped the contrast. They also sped the footage up, and used it as an optical over the shot of the shoes with the witch's trembling hands.

They used apple juice because it was thicker than water (so is blood!), and it reflected the light really well with a slightly yellowish tint.

Even though I've heard this for years, to me it just looks like hand-drawn animated sparks.

Maybe it's true, or maybe it's another "hanging Munchkin" rumor.

Actually, the whole movie is a rumor. It never really happened.

See image below and draw your own conclusion ... or draw your own sparks ...

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[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 1/28/14 at 8:24pm

The movie is feeing celebrate at the Oscars this year.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/28/14 at 8:34pm

It's a little known fact that at this point in her career, Billie Burke's voice sounded more like Bea Arthur's. She had to huff helium to sound like Glinda in the movie.

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/28/14 at 9:31pm

I'm glad it's feeing celebrate, AEA.

Now step away from the cooking sherry slowly ...

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 1/28/14 at 9:51pm

Haha, that's what I get for typing quickly on the iPad.

And for the record it was Jameson

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 1/28/14 at 10:05pm

A man after me own heart.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/28/14 at 11:11pm

I mostly just liked the GIFs. Especially this one of Toto running away from the Tin Man, which makes me giggle uncontrollably.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/28/14 at 11:15pm

Please call him Terry, Toto is his slave name.