Wizard of Oz - Behind The Scenes
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- When the 'Wizard of Oz' had it's last network broadcast on CBS (May 8th, 1998), the bumpers around the commercial breaks had interesting behind the scenes trivia and interview clips about the classic movie.
0:00 Cut 'Over the Rainbow'?
1:01 Special Effects (News promo ran over a bit)
2:04 The Scarecrow and a Deleted Dance
3:41 The Tin Man
4:56 The Directors
6:11 Problems with Costumes and Makeup
7:44 Lost Song and Dance
8:57 The Wizard's Many Roles - Zábava
When you realize how dark this movie actually is
I saw a video and they said someone hung theirselves on the set.
@Buddi Thanks Buddi.
Lady Tee I read about it but the rumors were false that never happened
Slippery Noodles they are true
IIBlueBieberII and prev,s like the munchkins cause they had put there hands in her dress >:(
this movie is 80 years old, let that sink in.
Crazy!
Good point
the story was "neary 40 years old" when the movie was made!
Caitlin Fitzgerald older than my papa
89 years old to be exact
What you don’t know:
Judi couldn’t stop giggling during a scene
So someone took her off camera and slapped her...
Yea, that is true. I know that too!!
Must’ve been scary as hell for her
The dierecter
I know ed that she is also drug addict
Lol XD
Feirce Gorlock he asked them to break his nose
Its hard to belive that everyone who was on the Wazard Of Oz are dead now.
OGIvI - There's one munchkin left
OGIvI - ecpect for two of the munchkins
Some of the behind-the-scenes people are still with us, and Jerry Maren, the middle man in the Lollipop Guild, is alive and well at 97 years young.
MaskedMan66 huh thats really young
+Flashlight As Vincent Price once said, "Age is a matter of what you've got going on in your head." And Jerry Maren has all his marbles and a zest for life.
It's simply mind-bogggling that this movie was made in 1939! I cannot believe it.
same!!
Yeah, it was part of my childhood, but it was released when my grandparents were in their early teens!
I truly believe the wizard of oz was the first of its kind
I know, it’s nuts.
I thought it was made in early 1980s and I am still shook
I dont think he mentioned that one of the actors stepped on toto's paw and broke her paw😢😭
It's not certain whether it was broken or sprained, but she had a "stand-in" who was usually on the set and who filled in for her until she came back.
@@rachaelthai361 Terry wasn't paid anything; her trainer, Carl Spitz, who ran a school for animal trainers and also kept a kennel, was the one who received a salary, which was more than the extras got, but not as much as most of the starring cast.
And JUDY most certainly cared about Terry's well-being; she had become very attached to her "Toto," and even asked Spitz if she could adopt her (even though she already had two dogs). But Terry had her career in front of her, so they had to part company.
@@rachaelthai361 the money didn't go to the dog tho
@@mk-iu2jr Exactly. She wouldn't have known what to do with it. :-)
@@milanasabal5276 Judy received no injuries while making the movie; she was actually a lot luckier than her co-stars.
I always felt very strange when I watched this movie as a kid. I felt sadness for some reason. As a man now, I understand.
Same
I think that might have been because there were sad parts in the movie.
Still do
I felt the same way, the movie just seemed fucked up for some reason
@@hellkidx Not to Judy Garland; she loved it.
The special effects on the Wizard of Oz is so amazingly advanced for its time.
Junk
And dangerous!
well lets not talk about the scene where the witch gor 2nd and 3rd degree burns lol
Its really not, they used real fire and burned this women, and the makeup burned permanently damaged their skin, they forced judy or dorthy to take pills to make her skinny which killed her later on cause she became addicted, they had to recast the tinman because one of them got so injured from the makeup. Theres asbestos in the snow, despite rumours NO A MUNCHKIN DID NOT COMMIT SUICIDE. but the munchkins and directors did molest and assault sexually and physically towards dorthy, she was also bullied by other cast members for "stealing the spotlight". The lion was forced to wear pounds and pounds of costume, and couldnt sit down for hours or eat so they makeup wouldnt mess up.
@@mirroredrumor what really did happen to the munchkin? I'm Really curious. Some said he committed suicide on a scene and was changed during the remastered.
"I had a second degree on my face and a third in my hand."
"Classic Hollywood special effects at their finest."
No, an experimental effect that went wrong.
Second degree burns, first degree fun
MaskedMan66 went wrong twice*
@@iibloxibea3910 No, just the one time.
@@AnneSofieLovesMozart Don't talk like an idiot.
Judy Garland was very very beautiful. May she R.I.P.
They at first wanted shirly timple to play dorothy. I'm glad they went with judy because if they'd gon with shirly there would be no over the rainbow.
@@rachelberrythegleequeen.3221 Oh, no! Mervyn LeRoy, the producer, always saw it as a starring vehicle for Judy, because he'd heard her sing and was blown away by this youngster with such a powerful, mature voice. Other people at MGM suggested Shirley, as she was closer to the age of the literary Dorothy, but LeRoy was adamant; it was Judy or no-one. The only person he would have even considered was Deanna Durbin, and she was really too uptown to play a farm girl.
Having said that, "Over the Rainbow" would still have been composed.
Inside to
@@tiffanystewart9265 What?
@@MaskedMan66 beautfil inside to
I literally just searched up “behind the scenes..” and the first thing that came up “wizard of oz” 💀
Agnes same 💀
I didnt, oof 💀
me too 💀
They didn't mention the snow coming down in the poppy fields scene was asbestos.
COO Bay or how it was code for heroin
Wow! Just wow!
@@Ego-de4dt No, it wasn't.
That's right, you could buy fake snow in the 30s that was asbestos. Probably why many of the actors/crew never lived very long.
@Derangedxzombie Judy died young because of an overdose of barbiturates. The others lived to ripe old ages (for people of their generation); Bert Lahr was 72 when he died, Jack Haley was 81, and Ray Bolger was 83. Their deaths had nothing whatsoever to do with the "asbestos" snow, which was actually crushed gypsum.
Back when hollywood was a masterpiece of beauty yet engulfed in very shady activity... lol the shit they put the actors through wouldn't fly today.
What kind of shady activity?
bomb first putting their actors on drugs to make them skinny, using facepaint full of toxic aluminum so much more
I believe there was a story about when Judy was on the set, and she was laughing uncontrollably over Toto, that Louis B. Mayer(I think that's who it was), or one of the directors slapped Judy across the face to get her to pull herself together and to stop acting silly.
***** I don't think so they changed the makeup so he was fine for the rest of the shooting but could be wrong
Josh Wood originally buddy ebsen was cast as the tin man he was the one that had a bad reaction to the makeup and he had to be replaced with jack Haley
When Judy Garland heard of Bert Lahr's death while about to perform on stage, she was devastated and she sang "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" in dedication to Bert. And onset occasion, she referred to him as "My beloved Cowardly Lion". I have to admit, even if Judy Garland had some problems of her own, she had such a genuine heart. RIP, Judy and Bert over the rainbow. And the other two: Ray Bolger and Jack Haley.
Over The Rainbow
John Vargo awww, that's very true
True that.
She had her demons but in everything I've read of her and countless documentaries I've seen everyone always says that she was a loving person and had a crazy sense of humor. I don't think she felt racism or homophobia toward anyone (discrimination was common when she was alive). She was always friendly and funny with fellows stars like Lena Horne, Sammy Davis, Jr., Barbra Streisand, etc. Judy was no saint and she was ever so human. Maybe that's why we identify with her so much.
The day Bert Lahr died, I was to see Judy's show at Caesar's Palace, but she canceled that night.
She And Margaret Hamilton Were Also Good Life Long Friends
Judy was so beautiful :(( but she's in a better world now; somewhere over the rainbow :)🌈⭐✨
Yeah
Was? She’s a beautiful precious angel in heaven now. Sorry if i’m being mean! 🌈⚡️
I hope so💞
Da bum tss! Good song joke!
No she’s in the grave
Her singing that song "Over the Rainbow" was actually germain to the story, it connected the whole story line. They did wise by leaving it in.
There have been so many incredibly bad decisions made by the executives of movie studios. Star Wars was almost shut down several times because it was over budget and behind schedule. Cutting Somewhere over the Rainbow would have easily been the worst of them all though.
They almost cut Part of Your World from The Little Mermaid
@@SillyCreatureSally you realize that back in the past of 2005, I was at Hawthorne Suites in Conyers, GA, watching The Wizard Of Oz, before 12:00 a.m. on the little TV, while my mom’s out shopping at Walmart, and I was about to get sleepy, but guess what? I’m not sleepy yet; I was STILL playing Mario Kart: Double Dash!! on the Nintendo Gamecube, since I’m gonna be able to finish playing that game.
@@brianjude6789 Ok
@@SillyCreatureSally ok to you too.
What did this program have a commercial every 30 seconds?
because these are the commercials.
Zoeybatterup152
Not that many
Justin Graziano maybe cuz they knew millions of people were watching?
YOU TUBE going the way of commercial TV
once they pulled us suckers in....
lol
Not really. This is a very heavily-edited video. We are only seeing segments of the complete Special here.
Judy Garland was a beautiful actress she brought The Wizard of Oz to life they couldn't have got a better actress to play Dorothy ❤❤
Soul_Eater x ik
Shirley Temple almost played the part.
@JoJo Loves Limes Actually, talk of her being in the movie never got beyond talk. Producer Mervyn LeRoy always wanted Judy for the role.
MaskedMan66 because the producer exposed himself to Shirley she said it herself
@@marielatorres9678 Mervyn LeRoy never exposed himself to anyone but the very grown-up women in his life (and anyway, he was married when "Wizard" was made).
I dont wanna really know what happened behind the scenes like the abuse
Yea a munchkin hung himself on the set because a woman didn't want him.
@@sophiadilworth885 That was actually debunked. :)
@@maddycakes3054 No they edited out but it really happened. Go to Wizard of oz behind the scenes secret that happened on the set
@@sophiadilworth885 It was debunked. Someone edited it in over a bird that was in the same place. Besides, the trees and foreground weren't even real, they were painted on, so there wasn't even anything for the munchkin to hang himself on. Explain that, please.
@PenguinxII G If you mean illicit drugs that are now illegal, no. A doctor prescribed a course of normal medicinal stimulants to wake Judy up and depressants to calm her down. This was done with many actors in those days to get them through rigorous shooting schedules.
Not that her job on _Wizard_ was particularly rigorous; as she was still a minor, she only worked for four hours a day, and the only meds she used was an appetite suppressant that you can still get today.
Jack Haley was the perfect choice as the tin man no one else couldn't have played it better in my opinion
yes! He's my favorite character :)
Mine too
Monae Williams mam u are black
I think you mean "no one else could have played it better." ;-) Well, we'd never have known if Buddy Ebsen had stayed in the part, but watching the movie as it is now, you'd never think that Haley was an eleventh-hour replacement; he played it perfectly.
Scott Charles why tf does that matter 😂😂
The times where they smile backstage they knew they where being filmed so they had to look happy but let me tell you they werent and it was a torture being on set and they gave some of them drugs
They never made any secret of the fact that it was a very hard job; any movie was in those days and most movies are now. But only Judy, as far as we know, had meds that she took on an as-needed basis, and that had begun years before "Wizard."
@@MaskedMan66, I was at Hawthorne Suites watching The Wizard Of Oz, before 12:00 a.m. on the little TV, while my mom’s out shopping, and I was about to get sleepy, but I’m not sleepy yet; I was STILL playing Mario Kart: Double Dash!! on the Nintendo Gamecube, since I’m gonna be able to finish playing that game.
Its so sad that judy died so young,she was beautiful and a brilliant singer
Why do I feel like this movie is haunted
It isn't, so no need to feel that way. Judy's not going to crawl out of the T.V. set and drag you down a well or anything.
Maybe the fact that it's cursed...
But don't worry me too..
@@aeraci121571 It isn't cursed; that's ridiculous.
It is tbh...
@@nobody-lh4rd Nope. No such things as curses.
I'm still absolutely captivated by this movie, these actors and the gorgeous saturated technicolor. Pure artistry.
The movie is an absolute masterpiece.
@@arealmench with abuse in it
@@martakalnina3501 Wrong.
@@MaskedMan66 no right
@@martakalnina3501 Nope. Though it was a hard slog to make the movie and everyone endured their share of hardships, nobody was abused.
l have watched it every Easter since I was a kid. That's 60 times. They don't make them like that anymore.
Wow! I should start my own movie tradition...
Look hard enough, and you’ll find something.
Raymond Le Blanc so you’re sixty
Easter? Its always been a Christmas movie.
I never have watched this movie.
That flying house trick has me shook!
It's just a simple backwards clip.
Dorothy whispered that she preferred the Scarecrow, but I always loved the Tin Man. His heartfelt emotions, even before he got his "ticker," made me cherish him, "my sentimental friend." And Jack Haley, unmasked, was one good-looking man.
When did she whisper any such thing?
@@MaskedMan66" I'll miss you the most scarecrow"
@@anotherlittlepieceofmyart She wasn't saying that she "preferred" him, nor did she whisper it. It's just that she'd known him the longest.
@@MaskedMan66 no she didn't whisper it , but I think most people assume "I'll miss you the most" means "because I love you best."
When they aren't pictured all four together (Dorothy, scarecrow, tinman, and lion), ever notice how it's always Dorothy and Scarecrow? Ever go to a Halloween party and see someone dressed as Dorothy there with a tin man? No, shes with scarecrow because HES HER FAVORITE. lmao. I cant believe I'm debating who is a fictional character's favorite other fictional character from a movie made over 70 years ago,.... at 8:26 am. I haven't even had coffee yet.
@Another Little Piece of My Art I don't know about "most people," but any people who do assume wrongly. It wouldn't be like Dorothy to have a favorite among her companions.
After the Cowardly Lion joins the group, they aren't separated from each other until Dorothy is taken by the Winged Monkeys. And when they rescue her, who's the first one she hugs and calls "Darling?" The Lion! ;-3
As for costume parties, nine times out of ten it's because the Scarecrow is the easiest costume to make and the most comfortable to wear. However, I have seen different pairings; my sister and her husband once went to a party, she as the Lion and he as the Tin Woodman. (Would you believe he actually used an oil drum as the torso?!)
People have been discussing fictional characters ever since there's been fiction; it's no big thang. :-) And for the record, Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the others first appeared in a book that's just a few months shy of 120 years old.
Now, to be sure, there was one of the over twenty people who worked on the script for the MGM movie who had the notion to make Dorothy 19 and to give her a crush on Hunk, the farmhand who becomes the Scarecrow in her dream. But Mervyn LeRoy put the kibosh on that, wanting to keep Dorothy a child as she is in the books. The only vestige of that rejected notion is the very line, "I think I'll miss you most of all."
It just feels so incredible how such a colorful bright high budget looking film is from frickin '39. 1939! That's the 30's late 30's! They built so good sets, they used such good special effects for the time being, it just looks like it was made in the 70's or something!
That was the Golden Era of Hollywood, when movies were still an art form. :-)
My grandpa had a lot of nightmares because of the wicked witch of the west back when the movie was in theaters.
Grounding Guy god that was a long time ago 1939
My volleyball named Wilson liked her because she was kind to Judy..🏀🏐🏀👸👸🥳🥳🥳🧙♀️🧙♀️🧙♀️
he liked margaret and even met her once :)
this movie was released in 1939 thats the year my Grandma was Born
Is she still with us?
Same my great-grandfather was born a week before it came out
@@musicalfrog6143 My parents were six years old.
@@MaskedMan66 jeez
@@gooeygaster30 What?
Dark facts about the movie: This movie was filled with exiperimental makeup which caused half of the actors to die. The munchkins stocked there hands up Judie’s dress they even needed to get someone to watch for it due to them getting out of control. Did I tell you the munchkins are 32 and plus while Judy was 20 and less? The with got burned 2 times before she died. The person who made the movie slapped Judy Garland when she was giggling to much at a scene. But he was nice and let the whole crew slap him for that. There’s a part in the movie where there is a hanging munchkin in the background even making one of the cast members looking off camera. They said it was just a bird and they made it look like that in the remastered version. The dog got paid then the munchkins. This movie is 81 years old.
I apologize for any mistakes in this comment I am a kid and I and kind of good at spelling?
No need to flex darling
@@gachasyra4688 Its not flexing its the truth and dark so maybe have a little empathy 8 year old
The hanging man is fake, you should do researches before.
Rawan no it’s not
Maarij Khan it is
Judy garland is the most beautiful woman of all time
She died of drugs. (Sorry)
Don't forgot Natalie Wood and Marylin Manroe
Marylin died of overdose (same as Judy)
Natalie died of drowning
@@dariscamilovic2377 Common knowledge, but why even bring it up?
@@beelou5671 ikr Judy died from drugs because the movie made her get addicted because they kept giving them to her to make her look more young
Bee & Lou Naomi Campbell
FUN FACT: The suit worn by Jack Haley as the Tin Woodman was the same one that had been constructed (out of buckram and leather) for Buddy Ebsen, but because Ebsen was 6'4" and Haley was between 5'8" and 5'10", the suit had to be cut down a bit! :-)
A wonderful story:
Not long after seeing _The Wizard of Oz,_ a little girl named Natalie Norris fell ill and was hospitalized. Her mother wrote to MGM and relayed her daughter's wish that she could get a visit from Dorothy. They called Judy, who was of course delighted to do it, and sent Natalie a letter telling her that they had a date. She wanted to come in full Dorothy kit, but by that time everything had been put away in storage, so Judy wore a simple frock and her own short hair, and Natalie didn't mind a bit. Judy chatted with her a while and even sang "Over the Rainbow" to her, bringing Natalie's mother to tears. Later, Natalie showed rapid improvement, and not only recovered, but later in life became a singer herself!
That’s my cousin’s name, too!
@@brianjude6789 Natalie Norris?
@@MaskedMan66 I’m talking about my mom’s niece, who’s my cousin, Natalie Cato. SHE'S the one who works at the YMCA.
Okay, folks, here are the facts:
The Tin Woodman's introductory scene was initially filmed from November 6th to November 11th, 1938, but when someone realized that Jack Haley's suit was too shiny they knew they'd have to reshoot. So Wardrobe dirtied up the buckram Tin Woodman costume to make it look properly rusty, and the sequence was redone from November 15th to November 19th. It was a closed set with only authorized people permitted to enter. Each person there (and there were dozens, likely close to a hundred) had a task to perform, including set dressers and lighting technicians in the gantries up close to the ceiling. Birds were brought in, lent by the Los Angeles Zoo, including a saurus crane that at one point lunged for Ray Bolger, attracted by the straw stuffing in his costume. That crane appeared in the back of the set for however many takes they did of the shot of Dorothy and her friends heading upstage, and in the take selected by Film Editor Blanche Sewell, the crane was seen to peck at the ground, then rear up and spread its wings.
The next sequences filmed were the Cowardly Lion's intro scene (November 21st to 22nd), scenes in and around the Wicked Witch's castle (November 29th to December 3rd), and the Poppy Field scene (December 9th to 10th).
The Munchkinland sequence began filming on December 17th, more than a month after the Tin Man scene was (so to speak) in the can.
I always go back and watch the Wizard of oz. It just takes me to a simpler time in life
if only she knew how beautiful she was, the drugs ruined her. i wasn’t around at the time of her death ( about 55 years or so before i was born) and i always think of my great grandmother. she was born before the wizard of oz came out and i can’t imagine how she felt when judy passed. she must’ve been a GREAT woman, she didn’t need drugs to prove herself worthy of being in movies. rip the wizard of oz cast, you will all be missed.
bailey landry it wasn’t her doing.. MGM was concerned about her weight.. so prescribed what were called pep pills, black coffee diet, and cigarettes for her.. they even had her watched to make sure she stuck to the diet.. so cruel.. that movie pretty much was the start of her addiction and eventual death... so sad..
@@Didjeridoolove Wrong. Her mother started her on amphetamines and barbiturates when she was 13. But they didn't figure into her schedule when doing "Wizard." She was not put on a "black coffee diet," she was put on a reduced food intake diet, which supplied her with what she needed, if not what she'd have preferred; but the point was to try and lessen her very mature curves.
She was not required to smoke; it would have served no purpose and only wasted time.
The start of her addictions was years after this movie; basically, when she was finally out from under her mother's iron fist, she started doing what she wanted, and that led to a loss of control.
Not just the drugs but Hollywood ruined her as well
@@xavi1547 She had a hand in her own downfall.
I’m never showing this movie to my kids. Is just so dark 😳
I agree
The movie is not dark, and Judy Garland would insist you let them watch it. She loved it for the rest of her life, and so did everyone who worked on it.
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MaskedMan66 she hated her life
@@higuy1650 She hated some of her circumstances, but she loved her children, her friends, performing for an appreciative audience, and various other aspects of her life. So like just about anybody, she had her good times and bad times. One thing she adored was her connection with "Wizard"; why else would she have reprised the role of Dorothy on the radio in 1950 and made "Over the Rainbow" her personal anthem?
this is my most favorite movie in the whole world
Mine too-- and I love Pinkie Pie as well!
I absolutely loved Judy Garland! Especially in Meet me in St. Louis and The Wizard of Oz!
After "Meet Me in St. Louis" came out, there was a revival of "Wizard" at many theaters. New posters were created for the movie, but instead of Dorothy Gale gracing them, they put on images of Esther Smith, Judy's character from "Meet Me." :-)
The way this looks and the background feedback brings back so much nostalgia.
I was born in 1980 i started to watch this when i was 10 years old back in 1990 i am 41 now in 2021 i am still a kid at heart💜
I can't believe they didn't get any "residual" during there lives, this is a classic and you would think they would paid for years because of it.
Nobody knew it would become a phenomenon.
Christ, Judy Garland didn't even get 10,000 for her role as Dorothy..
@@kimmyhawk5466 So? She had lots of other work.
@@kimmyhawk5466 What? Wow. What's up with that?
@@Free_Snooki She got paid $500 a week; that was a TON of money in 1939, especially for a teenager.
So sad what Judy went through while on the set and throughout her life my heart goes out to her
Not nearly as much happened to her during the making of this movie as scandalmongers wasnt people to believe. She had it way easier than her co-stars.
So true about the “kind of immortality” thing. They will NEVER be forgotten. This movie is a staple in film forever. ❤️
Anyone else in tears watching this amazing piece of history?
Yes. The bit with the Tin Man made me cry so much
I just love this classic movie The Wizard of Oz. I could watch it over and over.
Every time I watch this I remember exactly how old I was and where I watched it for the first time. Such an innocent time. Thanks PA!
I'm 32 and this movie came out a year before my grandmother was born. This was a movie I always watched with her on the vhs tape that opened like a book cover. I want that tape
Ray Bolger was so true in his statement at the end I sent him a fan letter and did not know he had passed away his wife replied on the bottom of my letter and sent it ack to me what a keepsake!!
that’s so sweet!
Awwwwwww 🥰
The Wizard of Oz is such a wonderous classic movie.
Both the Wizard of OZ and Gone with the Wind were technological marvels in their day-particularly the Wizard of Oz with it's special effects. The Kansas tornado sequence still can't be matched to this day. The camera was the size of a clothes washer and was so loud had to be enclosed in a sound proof box with a window for the lens. Inside the camera a prism split the image so it could be filmed on three strips of film simultaneously-film that had very low light sensitivity thus requiring the set to be so brightly lit as to be over 90 degrees-but this was state of the art at the time, the film and equipment necessary to make the movie had only been in existence for a couple years at most-it couldn't have been made in 1936 or prior.
You probably already know that Technicolor had to develop (pun) a more sensitive film for the tehnicolor process.
I wish I had the opportunity to talk to Ray Bolger Jack Haley and Margaret Hamilton about the wizard of oz they were the ones around when Oz finally got the Hollywood recognition it deserved none of them in the begining thought the film would survive as long as it did but it's still here it's purely amazing
@Cimarron: yea the stories they could of told bout the movie during and off filming would been awesome to hear
@@nescafe7154 There are videos of interviews they did over the years. :-)
It was made the same year my grandma was born. She was born in June. The wizard of oz was my absolute favourite movie as a kid. My grandma has it on vhs and I watched it so much that I wore out the tape. I was obsessed. It’s still is to this day
You guys are right about one thing. You're immortalized by such wonderful performances! A real, true slice of genuine Norman Rockwell Americana!!!
Back in the past of 2005, I was at Hawthorne Suites watching “The Wizard Of Oz,” before 12:00 a.m. on the little TV, while my mom’s out shopping in Walmart, and I was about to get sleepy, but I’m not sleepy yet; I was STILL playing “Mario Kart: Double Dash!!” on the Nintendo Gamecube at 11:45 p.m., since I’m gonna be able to finish playing that game, BEFORE my bedtime.
That was when I was 13 years old.
FABULOUS People this is what they should put in our American Time Capsule. Love this for ever!! Thanks for posting interesting stuff behind the curtain. I enjoyed it.
1939 and still this masterpiece is far classier than anything current! What a feeling it must have been to be a part of something this great.!thats the way magic works.
It was hard work under beastly hot lights, but once it was all finished, everyone was proud of what they had achieved.
The munchkins are creepy too
You a bigot?
9:34
You mean the guy that drops tears out of his eyebrows?
OHHHHHHHHHH 😎
I wouldn't have admitted it years ago but this has to be the Best Movie of All Time!
for me it and gone with the wind were the best ever they could stand the rigors of time as well as the passing of time made no difference they are both very well loved movies
Absolutely agree this movie transported you to oz and has a feel of theatrical drama like no other. Movies were more theatrical back then but the wizard of oz in particular was amazing for its time. It looks way better than digital effects that litter the movies today with all flash and no smash. They used 5 directors on this movie to help put it all together by the end. That's a production alright!
@Maria D'Angelo Strictly speaking, only two directors: King Vidor directed the Kansas sequences and Victor Fleming directed the rest-- and it's Fleming's name in the credits. Richard Thorpe directed some sequences when Buddy Ebsen briefly played the Tin Woodman, but the producer disliked his work and fired him. Some stills from Thorpe's time on the movie exist, but no actual film is known to survive. What a treasure that would be!
I’m 39. I’ve never watched it the entire way through. My sisters never could sit through the entire thing in one shot. I’ve shown this movie to each of my children, and while they love it as well, they could never sit through the entire thing either. It’s a great movie but not the greater of all time. Xo
@@Ego-de4dt The curse of being brought up in this time of chronic ADD.
Every time they saw "When we come back", that's the signal for a commercial. When they do come back, they don't immediately go back to a movie; instead they answer the question they asked just before the commercial. Then they go back to the movie.
It must have taken two-and-a-half hours to show the movie that night.
i always loved the scarecrow............. Love this movie ever since I was born
Something about the Scarecrow did appeal to me. I liked both Scarecrow and Tin Man.
Darkman9478 that was the point.
My very favorite movie - my first time seeing it was in my daddy’s lap at age 4 - and it’s still my favorite at age 65.
When i was a kid me and the family grew up watching this. We had it recorded on a tape and it somehow got stolen from us. and ever since then every DVD or video tape we have seen with the movie it would never again show any of this. But now for the first time in 14 years I have finally found it again. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR UPLOADING THIS. SO MANY CHILDHOOD MEMORIES COMING BACK TO US.
OZ is actually Heaven. Same with Neverland
And Lollipop Island is too.🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🌕🌛🌙🌜🌜🐸🐸🎅🎅🎅🌲🌲🌲🐒🦜👯♀️👯♀️🐠🐟🐀🐀
Cola Octoling the real one you mean all this may seem stunning but the true one is paradise Islam this is nothing compared to that if we think this is good
L. Frank Baum's last words are said to have been, "Now we can cross the Shifting Sands," which was an area of the Great Desert that surrounds Oz and cuts it off from the outside world.
@@joselares5311 Correct! And Dorothy wasn't even in the second book. :-)
Of course the only literary land that actually was part of Heaven was Narnia. The Real Narnia was only reachable through the door of death; the one seen in the physical plane was a shadow or copy of the real one, just as our own world is a shadow of the real thing.
The single greatest movie of all time, no doubt.
I cant believe in 20 years it will be 100 years old
Judy garland was sooo beautiful I can't believe the producers and directors of the wizard of oz were trying to change how she looked and said she was fat and ugly and tried to change the shape of her nose I think she was stunning in my opinion 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
She really was stunning
Its really sad how Hollywood beat the self esteem out of everyone to portray an image that just isn't natural nor realistic. Case in point , look at the women and their horrific plastic surgeries. The before and after pics of some of these women are amazing. They look like deformed creatures.
There was only one producer of that movie, and he never considered Judy fat or ugly. What she was was voluptuous and they needed to get that under control so she'd look like a child. The first director Richard Thorpe had it in mind for Judy to look as much like the literary Dorothy as possible, so that's why the overdone make-up and blonde wig. LeRoy, advised by Cukor, undid all of that after he fired Thorpe. Judy got on a lot better with Victor Fleming, who directed the Oz sequences, and of whom she said, "He’s perfectly marvelous. He has the nicest low voice and the kindest eyes. Besides, he realizes that a girl who is sixteen is practically grown-up. He shows me all the courtesies he would to Hedy Lamarr. That’s very important to me."
When a local movie theater ran it in 3D I had my doubts.......but it was explosively beautiful in 3D!
The irony of the Buddy Ebsen story is that eventually he outlived all of the other main actors, including his replacement Jack Haley. Frank Morgan died in 1949, Bert Lahr in 1967, Judy Garland in 1969, Jack Haley in 1979, Margaret Hamilton in 1985, Ray Bolger in 1987 and Buddy Ebsen in 2003.
Fun Fact: Some years after being released from the movie, he appeared in a stage adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz"-- as the Scarecrow!
Brings back so many childhood memories.
Judy Garland was wonderful.
The wizard of oz is such a wonderful classic and has not only an amazing cast of actors but a great storyline and amazing effects. The effects that went into this are magnificent and the effort shines through the screen every time I watch this film. This is the one movie I want modern hollywood to keep their grubby little remake hands off this film. ITS EXACTLY HOW IT SHOULD REMAIN WITHOUT A CGI GLAM UPDATE!!!!
If they'd had CGI back then, they'd have used it. It certainly would have avoided a lot of problems.
I think what made this movie awesome is the fact it was made in 1939 and the special effects and great picture was still top of its line into the late 90's!!!!
Greatest children's move ever made, and one of the greatest films of any type ever made. period.
I cannot believe this movie came out in 1939....... I remember watching this movie when I was 4. My favorite movie of all time.
Pre- Dick van Dyke, actor dancer singer Ray Bolger was mind-wobblingly gymnastically flexible and acrobatic as the beloved WoOz scarecrow. His iconic performance remains unsurpassable.
He would have said the same about Fred Stone.
@@MaskedMan66 about who? Fred Flintstone?
@@brianjude6789 No, Fred Stone, the first actor who ever played the Scarecrow. He was one of the stars of the stage version of "Wizard" which premiered in Chicago in 1902 and soon went to Broadway. It was a massive hit and played in cities and on tour for most of the first decade of the 20th century. Ray Bolger was born in 1904, so he'd have been too young to see the show, but he did see Fred Stone in a one-man revue some years later, and it made up his mind to become a dancer, and to play the Scarecrow of Oz someday.
Interestingly, Stone and his daughter Paula once went to a movie featuring Bolger dancing, and Stone whispered to her, "That guy would make a great Scarecrow!"
@@MaskedMan66 now I really remember how THAT happened during that movie. And I guess you’re right about that one.
@@brianjude6789 I read it in a book that has excerpts from interviews with Stone and others. 🙂
Greatest movie of all time....
Then clearly u don't know the book
+Chadw w Wow you read a book, you're so much better than all of us
JustJoe so you admit you dont read great
+Chadw w what did this have to do with anything?
+Brenden Taylor He thinks the 'book' is a better 'movie'. Be patient with him, it will eventually sink in.
i love the actors who love their roles like the scarecrow, we had the same thing in bb and bcs with mike, johnatan banks actually loved the role and the character
BB? BCS?
I love The Wizard Of Oz, I still watch it every now an then.
Saw the Oz in Mexico I was blown away by this great story. How cannot you fall in love with America. The wizard of Oz an American Icon
Im 21 and this was my favorite movie growing up and to think it’s from the 30 comes to show that I’ll always be an old soul
I think it's more that this is a timeless tale! 🙂
Wonderful video thank you. So great that these forgotten documentaries are still available i have never seen this.
It wouldnt have been a classic movie to this day without Over the rainbow, a favorite of mine all my life
I was at Hawthorne Suites watching The Wizard Of Oz, before 12:00 a.m. on the little TV, while my mom’s out shopping, and I was about to get sleepy, but I’m not sleepy yet; I was STILL playing Mario Kart: Double Dash!! on the Nintendo Gamecube, since I’m gonna be able to finish playing that game.
That was 16 years ago!
@@MOI-gc4ey of course it was 16 years ago.
C est un chef-d'oeuvre !
Il est trop bien fait, à cette époque en plus!
THis is my favorite Judy Movie I loved Over The Rainbow song she sang to in it I love Judy peroid since age 7 Im now 62
This movie was made in the late '30's like 1939. The movie was telecast on CBS on November 3, 1956. The movie was shown as the last installment of the CBS anthology series Ford Star Jubilee. Since that telecast, it has been shown respectively by CBS, NBC, the WB, and several of Ted Turner's cable channels TCM, TBS, TNT and Cartoon Network. It has never been licensed to any local affiliate broadcast TV station. The movie was not re-aired in 1957 or 1958. CBS re-aired the movie for 3 years from 1959 to 1962 during Thanksgiving and Christmas. Beginning late in the 1963-63 season, those special presentations were seen in the first quarter of the year. The film was not broadcast in the U.S. in 1963, 1992, 1995, or 1997, CBS re-aired it for 4 more years from 1964 to 1968 during late winter/early spring, then moved to NBC for 7 years from 1968 to 1975 during the spring, and moved back to CBS where remained there for 22 more years from 1976 until 1998 during late winter/spring. 1998 was the last time CBS aired The Wizard of Oz shortly after the Time Warner-Turner merger. I remember watching this when I was in the boy scouts before the end of my 5th grade year when that happened. From Gabriel.
It was made across a six-month period between 1938 and 1939.
Best movie i ever watch.im 22,i first watch it when i was 8 and still i didnt forget the characters and the movie as so well.i really love it.
I love the oz my favorite movie of all time!
RIP Judy. Fly high over that rainbow
This is creepy when u know what's happend
And what would that be?
@superbowserlogan Dorothy Gale did not have any of that done to her, nor did Judy Garland, the actress who played her.
The Singer Midgets were just people, especially the American contingent (the core group was Austrian and German), who were mostly everyday people from everyday jobs. They were all thrilled to be in a big Hollywood movie, and had no intention of ricking getting fired for mistreating the star. Meinhardt Raabe, who played the Coroner, summed up the relationship between Judy and the Singer Midgets when he told Oz historians, "We were treated as equals by her. She would sit on the steps on the set with the rest of us and chat every day."
Judy was given no diet pills; in order to trim her curves (because she was very well-developed by the age of sixteen) she was on a reduced food intake diet and she went hiking and swimming with her stuntwoman Bobbie Koshay. Also, just being on the sets with the blazing hot lights was bound to make anyone shed a pound or two.
Judy was flatly against smoking at that time in her life. In an interview given in 1938, she announced that she would never smoke or drink. Sadly, she did both in her adult years, but never as a teen. I mean, use your intelligence: what point would there have been to it?
The "hanging Munhckin" story was cooked up by some nit in the 1970's who wasn't aware that when the scene in question was filmed, the Singer Midgets were not even at MGM, and would not be until a week later. People now try to claim that when the movie was put on DVD, they edited in a bird over the "body," but the bird was there on the set in 1938, and can be seen at other points in the Tin Woodman's introductory scene.
Retakes are inevitable, especially in such a complex film, and Victor Fleming certainly did "favor" them, because he liked to give the film editor (in this case, Blanche Sewell) a good choice.
@superbowserlogan Everything I've already written militates against all of that crap. Judy Garland never said anything about it (what's your source that she did?). Smoking doesn't help toward weight loss; I know, I've seen many fat smokers. And like I already said, Judy already said in 1938 (in a quote in the book "The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece" by Oz historians Jay Scarfone and William Stillman) her aim was never to smoke.
The story of the body on the set is entirely bogus. There were dozens of people, close to a hundred, maybe, on that sound stage keeping an eye on everything. It would have been impossible for anyone do do anything without being seen. It's a stupid urban myth and nothing more.
I watched the very first VHS tape ever sold in stores. It was the same movie you see on DVD and Blu-ray today, the same movie that showed on T.V. for decades beginning in 1956, and it's the same movie that audiences saw in 1939. It has not been altered; you don't do that to a classic.
Again, the Singer Midgets were just people, not animals. You might as well accuse the full sized extras in the movie of maltreating Judy; it would be just as baseless. Had anyone tried anything with his "Judalein," Fleming would have kicked them out of the studio, possibly literally.
Judy, as a minor, only worked an eight-hour day, and a good chunk of that time was given to being tutored, along with her stand-in Caren Marsh-Doll, at the studio school. That being the case, there was no need for any pills of any kind to alter her consciousness.
I've done over 30 years of research, friend. Frankly, you need to do some, by which I mean going to reliable, reputable sources and not just latching on to unfounded rumor. The best sources are these books: "The Making of The Wizard of Oz" by Aljean Harmetz, "The Wizard of Oz: The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History" by John Fricke, Jay Scarfone, and William Stillman, and the aforementioned "The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece" by Scarfone and Stillman.
@superbowserlogan You didn't prove anything; you just spewed a lot of lies. If you don't want to read my comment, that means you don't want to know the truth as set down by people who have been Oz researchers for decades.
Read these books: "The Making of The Wizard of Oz" by Aljean Harmetz, "The Wizard of Oz: The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History" by John Fricke, Jay Scarfone, and William Stillman, and the aforementioned "The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece" by Scarfone and Stillman.
this has been my favorite movie ever since i was little, and it continues to be til this day and beyond :)
Lot's of interesting informative facts... Thanks for sharing!
Great casting ; every role got great talent & unique ability & style
It's always amazed me how ideal Jack Haley was as the Tin Woodman, considering he was an 11th-hour replacement!
I saw at IMAX the other day. It definitely was a bird! The magnified view of this movie was a little bit too much being magnified so much!
Definitely up there with the greatest movies ever made. Reminds me of my grandmother's house watching it with her everyday 😓
It's my favourite film. My favourite character is the Tin Man, I can easily identify with him, and I have a huge crush on him. I'm even a really big fan of Jack Haley!
I have seen this movie since i was a kid in the late 80's and 90's. The recent blu-ray remastered in 4K makes the movie look better than it ever has and the sound is top notch as well. I have yet to see the actual 4K Blu-Ray im sure that looks amazing. Seeing the behind the scenes footage like this and on other videos here on on the special features of the movie discs is cool and enlightening.
I am so very glad those three men stuck it out for the movie because they did a wonderful job just perfect. Even the actress that played Wicked Witch wonderful!!!!
They were troupers!
@@MaskedMan66, my question is: did you know that back in the past of September 2005, I was at Hawthorn Suites @ Room 110 in Conyers, GA, watching the 1939 movie called, "The Wizard Of Oz," on the little TV, which is on the desk, while my mom's out shopping at Walmart, and I was about to get sleepy, but I'm not sleepy JUST yet; I was just trying my best to stay awake, but I was STILL awake when I was STILL busy playing "Mario Kart: Double Dash!!" for Nintendo Gamecube on the big TV, since I'm gonna be able to finish playing that game, BEFORE my bedtime, and before 12:00 a.m.?
Did you know that?
@@brianjude6789 Yes, you posted that same story some years back on another Oz video.
I didn’t know that, @@MaskedMan66, but thanks so very much.
Thanks so much for posting!