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

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Updated On: 1/27/14 at 08:33 PM

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.

I heard the Wicked Witch was terribly misunderstood.

El Oh Elphaba

This is what that kid from that show looks like now

Apple Juice?

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.

I learned the ruby slippers jizzed on the witch.

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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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Updated On: 1/28/14 at 05:57 PM

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.

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

And for the record it was Jameson

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

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