Falcon
DV8
- Location
- So. California
For the scenes where the Emerald City shines in the distance, it was drawn on a large piece of cardboard and filmed separately, with lights shining through holes.
· In the Horse of a Different Color scene, the horses were coated with different flavors of Jell-O mix and the horses kept trying to lick off the powder.
· In the early 1900s when L. Frank Baum wrote the book, American girls weren’t usually the heroes of books, but he believed girls could be just as strong as boys.
· In the book Dorothy’s magical slippers are silver, but the movie’s producers changed them to ruby so they’d shine out in color.
· The first musical version of the book was on Broadway in 1903, but entirely new music was composed for the movie. “Over the Rainbow” was almost cut from the movie because studio executives thought it slowed down the story.
· Margaret Hamilton (Wicked Witch of the West) caught on fire in the scene where she disappears from Munchkin Land, she recovered and returned to filming 6 weeks later.
· Prosthetics that makeup artists created to turn actors into flying monkeys were so well done, the same process was used 30 years later for Planet of the Apes. The “monkeys” had battery packs in their wings to make them flap…and there were only 12 actors playing monkeys, all the rest were miniature rubber puppets.
· The tornado was made with a 35-foot-long fabric stocking hanging from the top of a soundstage. A tiny motorized car was attached to the bottom of the stocking and was moved around to make the tornado look like it was sweeping across the prairie.
· In the Horse of a Different Color scene, the horses were coated with different flavors of Jell-O mix and the horses kept trying to lick off the powder.
· In the early 1900s when L. Frank Baum wrote the book, American girls weren’t usually the heroes of books, but he believed girls could be just as strong as boys.
· In the book Dorothy’s magical slippers are silver, but the movie’s producers changed them to ruby so they’d shine out in color.
· The first musical version of the book was on Broadway in 1903, but entirely new music was composed for the movie. “Over the Rainbow” was almost cut from the movie because studio executives thought it slowed down the story.
· Margaret Hamilton (Wicked Witch of the West) caught on fire in the scene where she disappears from Munchkin Land, she recovered and returned to filming 6 weeks later.
· Prosthetics that makeup artists created to turn actors into flying monkeys were so well done, the same process was used 30 years later for Planet of the Apes. The “monkeys” had battery packs in their wings to make them flap…and there were only 12 actors playing monkeys, all the rest were miniature rubber puppets.
· The tornado was made with a 35-foot-long fabric stocking hanging from the top of a soundstage. A tiny motorized car was attached to the bottom of the stocking and was moved around to make the tornado look like it was sweeping across the prairie.
