10 Things You Never Noticed About The Wizard of Oz

By the Oz experts Jay Scarfone and William Stillman, authors of (among other books) The Wizard of Oz: The Official 75th Anniversary Companion, The Wizardry of Oz, and (with John Fricke) The Wizard of Oz: The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History.

The question is: Are these 10 things you never noticed about the Wizard of Oz also 10 things Reginald Tresilian never noticed?


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#2, 5, and 9 were news to me.

Yep, what I was referring to was the 2nd part of that clip, "what's in the background." I never noticed the stork before in the earlier part of that sequence.

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Yeah, for the longest time I did not notice it either. I forget how I finally noticed it. But, it still never looked like it after the witch leaves. I will have to see how that part looks on my tv. It looked like a bird on my dvd on my laptop. But, yeah, my sister claimed that the munchkin hung himself and there was a person directing them there to go the way they did so they wouldn't see. But, it makes no sense as the road does go that way.


Editing again for Best12bars footage. Yes, that's what I recall seeing originally. My parents had taped it off the tv for me, so I never had an official copy of the movie until the 2009 dvd. And now I'm annoyed that my sister hated the movie and taped it over with some garbage show because I want to see what that looked like now. But yeah, I remember noticing that bird and it seems strange now that it was suddenly gone when the witch came and now like a few feet back right where that hanging thing is.

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Updated On: 12/2/13 at 12:37 PM

And when the YouTube user says "This clip is a direct capture from a 1980's VHS tape of the Wizard of Oz bought as part of a video lot from a collector" why should we possible take his word for it?

HAve other copies of this 1980s VHS tape surfaced?

This is obviously a forgery.

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Here's another YuTube user proving it's fake. You can actually see him put the 1980s VHS tape in his machine and play it.

http://youtu.be/H0P7bZZEL4g

No hanging Munchkin.

Someone should throw a pail of water on the YouTube user SuicidalMunchkin who made the forgery.

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We discussed this in the 3D release thread, but here are some things I noticed:

- Dorothy's freckles
- The Witch holds the Golden Hat when she tells them to fly
- The old lady is petting her cat in the cyclone

I can't remember when it happens, but I remember there's a glaring continuity error regarding the Scarecrow.

Me too!

I love the pigtail change in the Scarecrow scene. It's pretty funny when you know to look for it. They grow and shrink and grow and shrink about 5 inches (not a subtle change at all). It's because the song was reshot when they edited out the Scarecrow's dance, and somebody was asleep in the continuity department when they first shot the scene. The change first happens when Dorothy is waving goodbye to the Munchkins. In the next shot at the fork in the road with the Scarecrow, her pigtails are 5 inches longer. She must have been walking for about 10 months. Then, as soon as the Scarecrow trips and falls over the fence climbing down, her pigtails are short again. Then the crow comes along to take some straw, and they're long again! The song starts? Short again. LOL

I'm surprised Garland herself didn't say something, because it was such a change from her pigtailed hairdo in the rest of the movie. But then again, she'd been through about 300 hairstyle tests (and colors) prepping for Dorothy anyway, so who could keep track?

Apparently the answer was no one.

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And the ALW came along and completely changed that, with his production...


The tag on ALW's WOO made me want to stand up in the theatre and scream obscenities.

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SPOILER ALERT!!!!!




The very last scene, in Dorothy's bedroom, is pretty much like the film, but then everyone but Dorothy leaves ('Gotta get back to work') and she sings a reprise of 'Over The Rainbow' as the doors to the cabinet in her room pop open to reveal the red ruby slippers, twinkling under a red light.

Makes me want to punch him in the throat.

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Maybe we could all wake up and discover that Andrew Lloyd Webber is a dream.

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I, for one, could never accept it was all a dream. If anything, that kinda ruined it for me as a child and made me sad. I so wanted it to be real, which is why the ALW ending described above makes me smile.

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