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FASCINATING FACTS
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RARELY TOLD STORIES
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Facts Menu :
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Jitterbug Scene | Tornado Procedure | Before the cutting room floor | Death Certificate
Sywriting | Baum's Pseudonyms | 1939 Movie Premiere Reviews | Hanging
Acadamy Award Competitors for Oz | Woman holding cat | Horse of a different color
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(Click picture for more pictures and information)
Q.
Do you know why the four are carrying these items?
A.
The four characters were preparing to battle the
witch to acquire her broom.
Along the way, they met with the "Jitterbugs"
The pictured scene was originally scripted prior
to the "Jitterbug"scene
(which was cut from the final version)!
We hear reference to these creatures (insects) that
were sent by The Wicked Witch when she is
speaking to Nikko,
the Captain of her army of Winged Monkeys.
She says:
"Take your army to the Haunted Forest,
and bring me that girl and her dog.
Do as you like with the others, but I want her alive
and unharmed! They'll give you no trouble.
I promise you that.
I've sent a little insect on ahead to take the
fight out of them.
Take special care of those ruby slippers.
I want those most of
all. Now fly!"
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TORNADO PROCEDURE
For the tornado used in the Kansas farm sequence, a Gantry Crane travelling the length of Stage #14 was hung from the bottom of roof trusses. The Gantry car supported a canvas cone in the shape of a tornado which was rotated by a D.C. motor on a speed control.The motor assembly was arranged to tip sideways and was controlled from the car together with its cross travel. The approach was fastened to a car travelling on a predetermined track and containing the arrangement for dust. This car was moved by operators below the set. The set was built on a platform and was 3/4 scale. The sky was projected moving foreground glasses. Air was piped around the set for wind effects. Wind machines were also used. |
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BEFORE THE CUTTING
ROOM FLOOR
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The Death Certificate
• The date on the Wicked Witch of the East's death certificate marks the 19th anniversary of L. Frank Baum's Death. The Date is May 6 1938, you can't see it in the film but below is everything writen on the Death Certificate:
Certificate of Death
Name: The Wicked Witch of the East
Residence: The Land of Oz
I HEREBY CERTIFY that I attended deceased from May 6th to May 6th, 1938
I last saw her alive on May 6th 1938:
Death is said to have occurred on the date stated below at 12:30 p.m.
Date of Death: May 6th 1938
Month Day Year
Signature: W.W. Barister, M.D.
Address: Munchkin City
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