The Wizard of Oz - WTF Happened To This Movie?
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- Опубліковано 12 січ 2020
- Hollywood has had its fair share of historically troubled productions. Whether it was casting changes, actor deaths, fired directors, in-production rewrites, constant delays, budget cuts or studio edits, these films had every intention to be a blockbuster, but were beset with unforeseen disasters. Sometimes huge hits, sometimes box office bombs.
In our latest episode we take a trip waaaay back to 1939 in the Land of Oz, where the adaptation of Frank L. Baum's Wizard of Oz swept audiences away in a storm of cinematic fury. Or did it? We take a look at all the drama "behind the curtains" of this epic film, which was recently revealed to be the most influential movie of all time and find out just how it came to be. The answers are both shocking and surprising, showing how far we've come in the modern age of filmmaking as we uncover WTF Happened to The Wizard of Oz!
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Is it just me or does the sound cut off for about 40 seconds towards the end?
Yeahwhats up with that. I assume somewhere over the rainbow was playing and got copyright claimed and they just couldn't be arsed to fix it
Its just you
Jk
It happen to me to
he probably got hit with a content match for the song.
So, plain silence from 18:05 to 18:50... That's a bold artistic choice.
"Technically" Dorothy didn't kill the first witch. She was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. It isn't as if Dorothy piloted the house in a kamikaze attack on the witch.
Yep, *John McClane* five decades earlier 💃💥🏢 #wrongplaceattherighttime
Exact-a-mo-do!
Man-slaughter than. Or witch-slaughter, not sure the legal terminology.
lol, i said that too. "she didnt confront her! she didnt even meet her!" hahaha.
Katie Lewis not really. The circumstances by which the witch (tee-hee) found herself lodged beneath the house were not Dorothy's doing. The tornado wasn't called upon by Dorothy, and she had no control over where the house would land. If anything the witch probably brought it upon herself: all of that sky-writing, and flossing on her broomstick likely caused a disruption in the barometric pressure which made the tornado veer in her direction 🤣!
Judy’s mom was giving her pills way before this movie.
yep to get her up and because she was so hopped up on those pills another set of pills so she could sleep.
So basically her mother got her hooked.
18:00 minutes in and the sound dies. Tragedy
Yeah I was like what the... happened? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
UA-cam probably censoring that song or music in that short part.
WTF Happened To This Video?
UA-cam muted "Over the rainbow" Nothing new from youtube.
Oh, that's what happened. I panicked for a second, thought I'd suddenly gone deaf
That’s disgusting what happened to Judy Garland
It is! She was so talented and they treated her so badly.
Big deal, many others have it worse, the colored kids in flint for example
@@TannerWilliam07 This aren't Olympic games
@@PiterburgCowboy No it's not, but many people did and do have it worse. Judy was an adult who overdosed and left her kids without a mother
So her pain doesnt count?
I remember waiting all year long for The Wizard of Oz. Sad that kids will never know that particular pleasure again.
You should have mentioned how the dog actor for Toto was buried in an unmarked grave and was eventually paved over by a highway, leaving the grave lost forever.
I bet a lot of dogs meet a similar fate.
Damn...
That depressed me more than any of the antics that happened during filming. 😕
Also Toto's trainer was paid more than the Munchkins...
@@JohnSmith-kz8yo to be fair animal trainers and specialists of any kind always make more than extras :/
There should be a movie about the making of THE WIZARD OF OZ and it should be rated R!!
Rudie Obias I haven't seen it, but there is a movie called "Under the rainbow" (1981)
@@justindenney-hall5875 Thanks!
@@RudieObias You're welcome.
@@justindenney-hall5875 - I was looking to see if anyone referenced that. Chevy Chase, Carrie Fisher, a Nazi midget, and an assassin who keeps hitting the wrong target, all in a very politically incorrect comedy. Probably would never get made today.
@@coreyroberson4550 Yeah a lot of movies from the past couldn't be made today, I first heard about it from Brad Jones on the midnight screening review of the original wizard of oz, I've been meaning to see it since.
Regarding the munchin drunken orgy rumors: It is important to remember, and I am quoting Liza Minnelli, Judy Garland never let the truth get in the way of a good story. I would take the little people's alleged behavior with a couple buckets of salt.
dd ee
Correct.
That is a lower mind gossipy drama statement - and if it in fact originated with Liza - then it is an observable jealousy towards her Mother.
Liza never encaptured the vocal perfection of her Mother, Judy Garland.
Liza has a defense of the environment of her youth - and her Dad's influence.
Oh come on!
You are three feet tall in a land of people who treat you like crap. All of a sudden, you get put in with over a hundred of people who accept you. And you think Nothing "Went On"???
I don't blame the little people for Partying like it was Woodstock on Steroids!!
I believe it. Because I’ve even seen munchkins in interviews talking about it.
I was well acquainted with the stories about how the make-up products they were using back then were toxic, especially for the Tin Man. From the documentaries I watched growing up, people didn't know better about what ingredients were being used in the products that were manufactured back then. It ain't like manufacturers in 2020 are gonna find a lot of people wanting to buy paint with lead in it.
I just watched this in it's entirety for the first time in nearly twenty years and I can say without any reservation whatsoever, that this is one of the greatest cinematic achievements of all time. Even though I'd seen it dozens of times as a young child, seeing it in my mid-thirties, has basically left me speechless. Masterpiece.
It is truly a film for all ages. 🙂
The jitterbug segment was cut from the film but still referenced by the witch in the film.
It’s in the musical I think
The Wizard of Oz is basically the story of two females fighting over a pair of shoes....
In her shoes was a story about a woman that illegally took her sister's shoes. Of course some other things happened also such as taking her sister's car and illegally parking it so it got impounded.
Confessions of a Shopaholic
The Wizard of Oz is basically a story of a girl who learned a lesson while dreaming of being in a fantasy world.
@@josephclegg3562 Well that too....
@@josephclegg3562 You've got it. It has nothing to do with the recent lame-brained interpretation about Dorothy taking illegal possession of the Ruby Slippers. Go back to the book and READ. Even the movie shows what really happened. Dorothy didn't TAKE them. They were put on her by Glinda.
Most of this stuff,I already knew. Heck,Judy Garland's life and career have practically become the stuff of cautionary tales about show business. When I saw the recent biopic of her,I knew there wasn't going to be a happy ending.
Considering how much you discussed the actors who played the Munchkins,I'm surprised you didn't bring up the movie *Under The Rainbow* .
I'm actually sorry that Disney's *Oz The Great And Powerful* didn't lead to a series of Oz films,culminating in a new version of Wizard (as originally planned)....I read the book when I was a kid,and I'd like to see a version that includes the Good Witch Of The South,the field-mice who save the Lion from the poppy field and the different forms the Wizard takes when Dorothy and her three friends visit him separately.
I would also love a new series of oz films. I've read all the books by Baum and understand that it would be hard to make a movie out of all of them as they were written. I feel like Return to Oz, while combining plots and characters, was faithful enough and is a good example of how it should be done. I don't Hollywood would ever consider making an Oz movie that wasn't based more on the 1939 movie than the books, unfortunately.
I always liked Return to Oz better then the MGM classic. Mostly because Return to Oz is more faithful to the books.
In the 1982 anime version there is a Good Witch of the South and the different forms of the w
Wizard.
@@Jason-lw2nw I would love to see A newer version of The Wizard of Oz for 2020.
Melissa Cooper
Return To Oz was very well done, and is near perfect as the sequel.
The girl actress did a wonderful job - very tough to follow such a master as Judy was.
( the 3d Oz movies [ animated] is adequate, but just.).
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I remember the annual broadcasts on CBS! That was a big deal when I was a kid, even in the 70's. The witch scared the bejeebus out of me.
Me too..I hated the wicked witch and was so glad to see melt...
Me too, all thru the 90's.
The Wizard of Oz is my favorite movie. One the most timeless and greatest films of all time. Hands down.
I thought I knew all the things. I was unaware of the sexual abuse. I'm glad these things are being shared. It's when abuse is hidden that it's able to grow.
Hearing these things doesn't "ruin my childhood." It simply reveals the truth. It also doesn't ruin the movie for me. It's still the same movie I first saw 30+ years ago.
Gotis
**NOTE**: a lot of what they say here has long since been debunked.
Apparently they are basing this off of one particular book from someone who sensationalized to sell mor copies of the book.
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There was no sexual abuse. This video is sensationalist kak.
@@jeffking291 That would probably be Sid Luft, Judy's third husband.
I love it how people think any rotten tomatoes score is valid.
Effective Reading Instruction How else are we going to measure what critics thought of a film? There’s also “Metacritic”, but some have accused it of being too “subjective”.
Beethoven’s Fidelio ahhh you guys are the ones that went through film school so I’m sure you could figure it out.
Effective Reading Instruction What’s that supposed to mean? Rotten Tomatoes isn’t perfect, but it’s better than nothing.
@@beethovensfidelio What do you own it or something?
@@ianmichalski7997 Own what?
Lazy false facts that simply reading a book would disprove. The film wasn't safe, or fun, but that doesn't diminish the impact if the film.
Reading a book will disprove? You can read a book disproving just about everything. It just depends on which author.
Also, $50 in 1938 is the equivalent of $920 today. Doesn't sound so bad now does it?
@@rockets4kids it sounds pretty bad if they knew they were getting less than the dog
The sepia tone-to-technicolor transition shot was actually all in technicolor. The inside of dorothy's house was painted in monochrome sepia tones and a double was also costumed in sepia. The real, full-color Dorothy slipped into the shot just after the camera pushed past the double. 17:31
Ayyy fellow Vox viewer!
@@TannerWilliam07 😂😂😂
@@TannerWilliam07 ... Haha... no, just an old film nerd.
Sorry but Turner Classic said: _THE WIZARD OF OZ has not been colorized. The film was originally shot in both sepia-toned (which means brownish-tinted) black-and-white and Technicolor. The sequences in Kansas were in black-and-white and the Oz sequences were in Technicolor. Most of the people who remember THE WIZARD OF OZ being a black-and-white movie grew up watching it on black-and-white TVs, which of course, didn't differentiate between the Kansas and Oz sequences._
If anyone can catch the 3D bluray version then I strongly recommend it. An excellent transfer I'm surprised wasnt mentioned in this video.
The Wizard of Oz is the most watched movie ever made, virtually every human on the planet has seen it. Somewhere Over the Rainbow, that Harold Arlen wrote in the back of car while suffering a migraine, is the most recognized song in history. It's hard to overstate the effect this movie had. In ancient times when we had 3 channels, 5 in some places, it would come on once a year and it would be like a holiday, we got pizza and popcorn and ice cream for dinner, and could stay up until 10 to watch it.
The Wicked With of the West scared the bjeezus out of us and gave me nightmares for years When we got a real color TV in the late 60's, the transition between Black and White into color in Oz was breathtaking to us. They pulled it off by painting the house set in colors to look B&W and then filming the whole scene in color. They made that movie in 1939!! Wow.
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The Wizard of Oz will forever be a classic.
my mom hasn't watch it though
I haven't watch it, and I know a lot of people people that haven't either. If you counting americans as everyone in the world, you're nuts.
@@solameencuentro I got that statistic while I was researching American films for a course I taught on arts and humanities. It may have been superseded by now by another film, but a few years ago Wizard of Oz was the most watched movie of all time, worldwide. Remember there are 80 years worth of viewers to consider.
It's called "Over the Rainbow," and Arlen wrote the music; the lyrics were by Yip Harburg.
The 3D conversion they did, rather than being the sacrilege I feared actually turned out great. It had the effect of making all the 2D backdrops extend further away than they were on set so the whole Oz world seemed more expansive and real.
Watching this actually makes me sad cause this movie really worsen judy garland's health
The g in Ray Booger's name is pronounced like j in juice. Just thought you might want to know for future reference. I really enjoy your videos, keep them coming.
I know, right? Sounds like a real shit-show of a production.
What happened to her really was sad.
Judy was being abused by the studio system way before OZ. Shirley Temple too.
@@basilbaby7678 even her own mother gave her pills just so that she can be a perfect performer 😢😢😢
Wow, I didn't have a clue what it took to make this movie. Thank's for the information and for making this video.
Here's where to find the full story: "The Making of The Wizard of Oz" (1977) by Aljean Harmetz with an introduction by Margaret Hamilton, "The Wizard of Oz: The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History" (1989) by John Fricke, Jay Scarfone, and William Stillman with an introduction by Jack Haley, Jr., and "The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece" (2019) by Scarfone and Stillman.
Loved this Video great Job
Near The End of The Video The Audio cut off for A few Minutes
Another good video! Good job!
Why does the audio just get cut in the last minute of the video?
It has an approval of 100% on Rotten tomatoes.
Which means nothing
@@Cazz8203 I agree 100%,I don't go by what anyone thinks, just only if I think it's interesting to me😊
4:13, Jesus! I remember watching the 1999 documentary on the making of The Wizard of Oz! Guess this is the dark side of Hollywood.
As far as I can tell, all Hollywood is the dark side.
@@nunchuckfilms X100
Most of this is Bullshit
FYI - Gone With The Wind (also released in 1939 - and directed by Victor Fleming) had its many share of problems both on and off the set as well...check into this history of that film too...
There has never been a feature film made without there being "problems" during production.
In the case of both The Wizard Of Oz and Gone With The Wind - had it not been for Victor Fleming (and the others working with him & under him) both films might never have been finished let alone successes nor beloved classics.
The g is soft in Bolger.
ikr..lol
ZN
Yes, and he was quite a dancer (and singer).
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The narrator has a strange way of talking, anyway.
spookym123
Agreed.
Brilliant research and presentation. Thoughts and prayers for the cast and crew who suffered during the filming
I love you JoBlo! Your vids are THE best!
My grandmother use to watch the wizard of oz each time it came on. I would watch it all the time with her when I was little girl all the way up to adulthood.
Definitely a special time & movie I shared watching with her.
There is an actual Oz hidden in the mountains of North Carolina. It was built in the 70's but closed down shortly after. Then it was forgotten for many years until it was reopened about two decades ago as a seasonal theme park. It is located in Beech Mountain, NC --- search "Land of Oz Theme Park"
Adam the Whoo did an episode there.
You did a great job with this . Nice production.
My husband's birth year was 1939,it was a very good year...R.I.P. Bill Richards 💔
I will forever love and revere, Judy Garland. May she rest in peace. Sweet lady.
I am so old that the first many years I annually saw the film on TV, sitting at a snack tray in the living room eating supper by the TV, (something allowed for zero other TV events), I watched the 'technicolor unveiling' in black & white just as the everything on our b&w TV. I've heard of every mind boggling detail you list here. The final product deserves it's iconic status. You 'forgot' that there was an attempt to cut the song, Over The Rainbow, from the film because it "slowed it down" ?? Somehow, like life itself, all the misery combined to make lightening in a bottle. TgT
So did I...btw Easter originally was long the season the show it..
A deeper dig than I've seen before. Fascinating.
One of the reasons that The Wizard of Oz was such a culturally powerful event every year during the Sixties was that it was a perfect vehicle to demonstrate the vibrancy of the new technology of color TV. The event status of the film's broadcast (promoted well in advance, often getting the cover of the local paper's TV listings) made it hard to miss, and with its clever change from sepia to Technicolor, The Wizard of Oz broadcasts convinced many consumers that color TV was worth the extra cost to upgrade.
Dorothy's change of view from drab to dazzling was a significant metaphor during that cultural moment too. The changeover from predominantly black-and-white TV shows to all-color shows opened the door to other cultural attitudes that transformed from simple to vibrant to horrifying all in the last years of the decade. In records, movies, and on TV, everything went from two-tone to vibrant color. As a selling point of that new vision, The Wizard of Oz broadcasts were a flagship for a whole lot of change.
Victor Fleming is my favorite director of all time
I don't think people should blame him, his role was just as a director, the producers are the ones should be blamed
Here's some interesting trivia for you. Early on in Hollywood powdered cotton was used as snow. The lights would get so hot, that it became a fire hazard, the cotton would ignite in mid air when it passed the lights. So, of all things, asbestos flakes were used as a replacement. People had no idea of the hazard of asbestos then, only that it was flame proof. The scene in the poppy field, has major Hollywood actors of the time, being covered in asbestos.
The snow was crushed gypsum.
Great video bud :D
I may have missed it but this wasn't the first OZ film made. There were a number of OZ film made years before this one!
Seven, to be precise.
18:04 did anyone else's audio cut out here?!?!?
M0nkeyb0mber 339 yeah mine did! Wtf gives JoBlo??
The Munchkins were making the equivalent of $928 a week, let's not blow this out of proportion.
Audio cuts out at 18:02 and comes back at 18:40.
I was made to watch this ever year, as it's a great movie, is what I was told.
I have still never re-watched it, those monkeys scared the crap out of me as a kid in the 70's.
I was terrified of the giant frog on the Gabby Hayes show, so hope you feel better most kids got weirded out by lots of stuff that was supposed to charm them
@@averayugen8462 Not most kids.
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PRISON SHOW INTRO THEME
The only thing I remember about this movie was Michael Jackson as the scarecrow....Oh wait!! Wrong movie.
Ease on down the road.
It's the Wiz
Marcel Zachary, it’s a joke. G33qZ Gaming is only joking 🙃 around. But it’s okay I have told jokes and people thinking I am being serious, but no I am just telling a joke. And I have been in moments were I have taken people serious for a statement they made, but they were just telling a joke
@@jamesgarrett8833 I'm guessing it went over his head.
I know that i just wanted to let people know what they're talking about.
Thank you for doing this
I’ve got no sounds at all on the video starting around 18 minutes but no comments or anything talking about this. Is there something wrong with the video or am I having technical issues?
Great video about a great movie!!! This movie is also on the Top 100 Horror Movies of all time simply for the fact that I shows the very 1st dismemberment ever put to film - when the flying monkeys tear apart the Scarecrow.
It's Winged Monkeys, and the Scarecrow was taken apart more than once in the book, which was published 39 years before. A straw man being taken apart is scarcely a real dismemberment.
Why do I feel utterly depressed? Especially when you say this film is nearly a century old.
Vintage Soup 81 years old is not 100 years old. Ask any 81 year old person.
Kevin Chappell but it’s only 20 years until 100 so it’s closer than further
*shrug* And? The book is 122 years old.
5:03, RIP Judy.😔
The grim things about the making of this movie have brought tears to my eyes.
Such as? And make sure you know what really happened; a lot of lies have been told.
Audio goes out at 18 minutes. But is great info up to that point
I remember seeing this for the first time in 1958 on TV when I was 5. I was disturbed by it, especially the crazy dogknapping woman and her bicycle broomstick morph in the tornado scene. Okay, movie's over, time for bed, sweet dreams....
Going over how horrible the film industry was in 1939 really has no bearing on the film's artistic value. The problems listed were endemic in the industry (and in some cases the culture at large). Some have been solved, others still need to be addressed. This whole idea that works of art are somehow "tainted" by the poor behavior of the people who worked on them is pretty dumb. Especially when it is decades later and everyone involved is long dead.
Did you think about inflation when talking about the wages? Munchkins are technically raking in $1800 a week. But that is ridiculous that they made less than a dog.
Garland said the munchkin men sexually abused her on the set and thought they could get away with it because they were small.
The dog had a bigger part
$100 a week in the 1930's was really good pay, as a comparison how much were extras an bit players generally paid?
I haven’t seen this movie in so long I can hardly remember it, I’m gonna have to back and watch it again now.
why stop there and watch the Wiz as well. lol
9:25, it was the best Urban Legend I've heard! They spoofed it in Robot Chicken!
In the 70s, we bought coffee from The Wicked Witch of the West. (Not actually in character) "Good to the Last Drop" Maxwell House spokeswoman Margaret Hamilton.
One of the best movies ever made!
Any Werner Herzog movie deserves a video like this.
For some reason I read this in Herzog's voice.
I thought it was a bird too. Apparently, they altered the original version in the 1980s to be a bird instead of a mysterious hanging shape. I've actually seen it. It's creepy as all hell.
I doubt it is a person but I've seen the original and it does look like a person in a way
Yeah. It looks like "something" but I think the rumors are fueled by the fact that they replaced it and that it doesn't fit as anything else. It could be just a prank by angry munchkins but regardless it doesn't look anything that would have been planned as a background prop.
I never saw the "bird" until watching this video, then looking at other videos on youtube and seeing that bird. Back in highschool we were discussing it and watched the video (over 25 years now) and I'm 99% sure I remember that you can watch the person climb up the ladder and drop. That happened while they were still talking, before they started singing and going down the road. On youtube I can only find at the point where they are singing, when it is closer but no movement.
It was a bird; a saurus crane, to be exact. The movie has never been altered.
@@arizonaFIREent It's a bird.
I’d love to see a full documentary about the making of the film or maybe a docu-drama.
There was a full documentary many years ago, and it's included in the various home video packages. It's hosted by Angela Lansbury.
3:03, good movie! I love every minute of it!
Harold Arlen - brilliant composer.
So, plain silence from 18:03 to 18:40... That's a bold artistic choice.
WTF happened to Apocalypse Now!
Yess
Right haha
Tha Ruthless 1_ AZF It took 5 years to make
Star Trek: The Motion Picture WTF happened to this movie
The audio at the end gets cut for a minute. Or is that just my youtube app?
Please do more WTF Happened videos!!
Did the audio cut off in the last minute of the video?
Me: sees thumbnail
Also me: wtf DID happen to this movie 🤔
Several directors took over the project after Victor Fleming was fired from the project.
I know of one.KIng Vidor.
No, Richard Thorpe was fired. All the footage he shot was unusable. Victor Fleming directed the bulk of the film, but he was called away to start work on David Selznick's "Gone with the Wind." The last few days of production on "The Wizard of Oz" were directed by King Vidor .
*Gone with the Wind* was actually a co-production with *Selznick International*
It was also, when inflation corrected, the largest grossing movie in history.
Selznick made it mgm distributed it
I really enjoy these videos. They have a lot of interesting things to offer.
But does anyone else wish the narrator would properly ENUNCIATE his words?
oh so it wasn't just me that the audio cut out at 18:03 XD
I've known about a lot of these horror stories for years... can't look at the movie the same way again, I'm afraid. When I hear one of the songs it gives me the creeps.
Here's where to find the true, unvarnished story of how the movie came to be: the books "The Making of The Wizard of Oz" (1977) by Aljean Harmetz with an introduction by Margaret Hamilton, "The Wizard of Oz: The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History" (1989) by John Fricke, Jay Scarfone, and William Stillman with an introduction by Jack Haley, Jr., and "The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece" (2019) by Scarfone and Stillman.
When my son was just a child, he asked me why it was black and white in Kansas, but Oz was in color. I told him that Kansas was, in fact, a kind of sepia-colored state, and that you saw it just as you crossed the state border. :) It's fun to mess with kids. (My bad)
Curious World haha If I ever have a kid I’m gonna tell em the same thing
I believe it was taken out of the original book. The book described Kansas as being grey. Not a fun place to live in. And the reason why Oz in the movie was so bright and colorful was because it was a magical place. Where pretty much anything could happen.
for its time i still think the shots of the 'tornado'(socks) are technological marvels
11:46 lol omg. this was hilarious
0:13 WRONG. All film students want to do is point out phallic symbols.
And they're so good at it!
Meanwhile, the truly objective film students have to remind them “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”
Ray bowl-ger??!!
"Cuckolding" - Words I did not expect to hear watching a video about "The Wizard of Oz" LOL
16:20, they shows the film on TCM in 2009-present.
It wasnt a bird if you can find it you can see a little person gets a stool throws a rope over a branch climbs the stool swings twice n then the scene ends
Epstein didn’t kill himself either
It wasn’t a suicide. First of all, the forest scenes in The Wizard of Oz were filmed before the Munchkinland scenes, and thus none of the munchkin actors would yet have been present at MGM. And whether one believes that the figure on the film is a munchkin or a stagehand, it is simply impossible that a human being could have fallen onto a set actively being used for filming, and yet none of the dozens of people present - actors, directors, cameramen, sound technicians, light operators - noticed or reacted to the occurrence. (The tragic incident would also had to have been overlooked by all the directors, editors, film cutters, musicians, and others who worked on the film in post-production as well.) That anyone could believe a scene featuring a real suicide would have been left intact in a classic film for over fifty years is simply incredible.
Doolittle, Leslie. “Really Most Sincerely, Still a Munchkin.”
The Orlando Sentinel. 29 October 1996 (p. A2).
Fine, Marshall. “Defusing the Rumor of ‘Oz.'”
Gannett News Service. 26 April 1990.
Malcolm, Paul. “L. Frank Baum’s Silent Film Collection.”
LA Weekly. 20 December 1996 (p. 90).
Now thay have all been edited but i used to have a copy that you can tell when the 3 ie scarecrow dorothy n tinman trun to walk up screen n follow the yellow brick road to the right.
In the background you can clearly see a figure not a fucking bird throw a rope over a branch climb a stool put the rope around neck jumps off swings twice the scene ends.
But now its been edited to look like a brid... when for the longest time it was just edited to end scene as the 3 turn to walk up screen
Shirley Temple was originally supposed to play Dorothy, but because of another actresses death the studios “swap” of actresses of was cancelled. I know that it isn’t as dramatic as the stories of set but I feel this entire movie was doomed to be horrific behind the scenes.
sound loss from about 18.00 - 18.50. fix?
Shirley temple had a wtf early career too
The narrator forgot to mention that Shirley Temple was originally considered for the part of Dorothy. But it went to Judy Garland instead. I heard it was either that Temple didn't have the right voice for the singing parts or contract dispute.
Yeah, and she was M-G-M's FIRST choice..kinda of good for bith that 20th Cnetury Fox (Now OWNED by Disney...for whom, if she'd been let out of the Fox CONTRACT--she would have made 1930s-40s megabucks (before they were CALLED megabucks) for..and who PRESENTED Walt himself with that 1938 muli-Oscar(r) statute display for 1937's "S NOW WHITE"). Both Shirley managed to stay with Fox till mid 1940s when WB's, UA, and others,, an d Judy got to be a big star, and it works for Dorothy, a (16 yr ) old 1930s teenager as Dorothy..evyer time I saw ANY bit of a younger Dorothy Gale..I tell the picture HEY! DOrothy is mid teens (Judy Garland was 17 when this was released..)
No sound from 18:03
Copyright claim?
The only knock on this wonderful film is Dorthy’s terrible dialogue. It doesn’t fit her age, but then the studio was interested in getting Shirley Temple for the part, so...
Note that I'm listening to Electric Light Orchestra's CAN"T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD (just about to end), and there is a "moon fall like lemon drops'(i.e."Over the Rainbow" brtidge), in the insturmental break. Jef f Lynn,e of ELO, recalls CGIOOMH to be a Wizard of Oz like song..
Eldorado is a masterpiece
About the munchkin hanging situation the video you showed was of the remastered version but you can see something that looks like it’s swinging in the original I think it is someone hanging themselves but we’ll never be sure I guess
Y does my sound keep cutting out at 18:02 ?
I was three when I first was this movie on tv. I remember my mom saying, “I thought this movie was in color?”