The Wizard of Oz * FIRST TIME WATCHING * reaction & commentary * Millennial Movie Monday

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[@STNeish]

Something younger viewers don't get is that this movie was an EVENT. Every year, it appeared on TV only ONE TIME. That made it really special to generations of viewers. I maintain that tradition even now, only watching it once a year.

[@TabaquiJackal906]

YES!!

[@leslie2149]

Yes it was an event. And it was one of the very few times I got to stay up late on a school night to watch it all. It was definitely a movie I looked forward to.

[@mycroft16]

This and The Ten Commandments. So many family memories tied up with these two movies.

[@theoneandonlyCatseye]

That's how I used to watch it as a kid. We didn't own a copy of it, so my family would sit and watch it together when it was on TV once a year and that was the late '80's and early '90's. Many generations have grown up watching the movie that way.

[@TabaquiJackal906]

@@mycroft16 Oh, man, yes. The 'Angel of Death' scene was another terrifying moment that just stuck with you.

[@JeremyJamesPrutchick]

Margaret Hamilton (the Wicked Witch) felt so bad that her performance terrified so many children (I was one of them) over the years. She appeared on "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" and showed how the witch's outfit was dress-up, and that witches are just make-believe. She may have been mean and scary in the movie, but in real-life she was very kind and sweet.

[@Miss_Camel]

That’s really sweet of her! I’m sad that witches got a bad reputation bc of films like these, and I’m sad she said they’re make-believe, but I love that she did her best to make kids feel safer! Tbh, until I met my stepmom when I was 19, I never knew anyone was afraid of the witch. I was alway scared of the flying monkeys

[@cindyknudson2715]

She started out as a kindergarten teacher before becoming a professional actress.

[@wordforger]

She actually loved children and did work for children's charities and such as well.

[@StillLoveItLoud]

I think she did folgers commercials too. I always liked her.

[@TheShootist]

good to the last drop

[@mazzmj5809]

So my grandpa told me about the first time he watched this: He kept hitting the TV because it was in black and white and they advertised this as the first colored movie. He didn't realize that the color came in later in the movie 😂😂😂

[@madisoncastle5138]

Yeah!

[@questworldiangreenknight7455]

🤣😂😆🤣😂😆

[@flarrfan]

The first ten times I watched it, it was all in black and white (not even sepia at the start and the end). Most people in the 50s and early 60s did not have color TV.

[@mazzmj5809]

@@flarrfan It was a brand new "color tv" that's why he was hitting it. 😆

[@ceedoda]

Lmao

[@paulpeterson4216]

"I tried once to go to a psychic, but she wasn't home." Clearly she was a real psychic, and she dodged that bullet! ;-)

[@psycho42069]

Ashleigh: "I've always wanted to go to a psychic. I tried once, and she wasn't home..." Me: She knew you were coming, LMAO! 🙃😉

[@thunderstruck5484]

Hahaha awesome yes she just didn’t answer the door

[@annemck]

I thought this, too. :-D

[@MrRondonmon]

Good thing, going to a Demonic led person is a bad road to go down.

[@katrinaleebaldwin4660]

Thought the same exact thing!!!! As soon as she said it I said I bet she saw you coming

[@MGower4465]

Why do psychics want you to call, then ask for your credit card info? Shouldn't they know?

[@voxorox]

To me, one of the funniest things to come from the movie is actually a line from another movie. In Beetlejuice, that one guy says "don't mind her, she's still mad because somebody dropped a house on her sister." It's just such an elegant burn.

[@boyce919]

Otho was his name... Classic

[@Vickytoriahirt1234]

Am I the only one that thinks Ashleigh is really pretty and cute? Lol

[@pamosborn1956]

@@Vickytoriahirt1234 She resembles my aide who comes 2ce a week. I Love it! :)

[@matthewmclaughlin7000]

@@Vickytoriahirt1234 Her husband does too. ;)

[@celticblacksmith]

There was a similar line in the TV show becker. Somebody asked him what happened to his ex wife and he retorted with "a house fell on her sister, i haven't seen her since" lol

[@mattslupek7988]

7:54 “What in the acid trip is that?” OMFG!! I had to pause the video to laugh at that, and took me a full two minutes to write this comment from laughing and wiping tears from my eyes.

[@revgid]

Margaret Hamilton started as a schoolteacher, and she Judy Garland were great friends on set.

[@eriklarson7023]

“This man is dancing his little heart out. Oh, he don’t have one.” HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! That made my day. Never change, Ashleigh :)

[@breakingames7772]

bet you and nobody else noticed the scarecrow carrying a gun? yup he carried a .38 caliber revolver in the movie. If you dont believe me look it up

[@QueenCloveroftheice]

When I tell you I laughed so hard lmao

[@jgw5491]

Personally I come back for the laugh! 🤣

[@pillmuncher67]

Dorothy: "I miss Kansas!" Toto: "I miss the rains down in Africa!"

[@bagelj]

That’s a meme joke

[@paulpeterson4216]

That almost killed me.

[@s.rry-guld2961]

lmao this is awesome

[@thecatsofva]

You've reached the Point of Know Return.

[@nightynightshade]

IM DEAD😂😂😂

[@QuestionableLifeChoices]

the 2 best things about this movie: for the transition shot between the sepia and the colorful oz, they literally painted the farmhouse room and the body double in sepia tones; and the entire movie matches up perfectly to pink floyd's dark side of the moon

[@debvoz]

Thank you so much for getting the part where Glinda tells her only bad witches are ugly but has been asking her if she is a good which or a bad witch. So many people miss that!

[@gryphman]

The scene where Dorothy leaves the house and everything turns color in one shot, was an entirely practical effect. The set was painted sepia tone, along with Dorothy, who was Judy Garland's double. Once she opened the door, she stepped out of frame, and Judy Garland, who's in color steps in. It's an extremely simple effect, but works so well.

[@codyt821]

I thought I knew all the effects in this movie, having read trivia on it my she life, but somehow I didn't know this. And now I think it's my favorite effect. That is so freaking awesome.

[@yuyaricachimuel555]

Really? Damn that’s clever beyond imagining.

[@Trebor74]

I thought it was just a film change as they couldn't afford the colour film for the entire shoot

[@DJTomOke]

Yep. Amazing isn't it. Apparently there were loud intakes of breath and even cheering in some cinemas when she opens the door to reveal the colour.

[@cindyknudson2715]

🤦🏻‍♀️ smh

[@jamesm1]

One of the VERY few times "it was all a dream" has truly worked for a story and still felt satisfying.

[@BYERE]

It's the story that started the trope. It's just that very few have managed to replicate it properly.

[@jamesm1]

@Brad1980 In the context of the books yeah, but the movie kind of plays things out differently in that respect I'd say.

[@captin3149]

@Brad1980 It was a dream in the movie. That's one of the things they changed from the books. For example, how'd she wake up in her bed in her house when it was still in Oz?

[@msrainbowbrite]

however, Toto with a warrant out for his arrest is still true ....

[@chrisleebowers]

Naah, I felt ripped off the first time I saw it when I was three years old. Like she went through all that for nothing? Return to Oz was awesome because it vindicated Dorothy's journey

[@KeplersDream]

Yeah, the 'body hanging from a tree' thing is an urban legend. They had a lot of large birds on set and the 'body' is one of them stretching its wings in the background. Did you spot that in the haunted forest scene when they go hunting for the witch, the scarecrow is carrying a gun?

[@fynnthefox9078]

Scarecrow packing heat.

[@TheAngryMoth104]

How the fuck have i never noticed that

[@Oh_Its_That_Weirdo]

@@TheAngryMoth104 A question all too many folks answer with "Must be more evidence of the Mandela Effect, there was no gun in my original home universe". 🙄 The actual answer is, of course... it's a small item that never actually gets used in the plot, and if you notice it, it kinda sticks out like a sore thumb in the setting... so most folks' brains (like yours and mine) edit it out as a superfluous detail for the convenience of forming a more congruent memory. Brains are super flawed and fallible lumps of organic matter, notoriously shite at processing objective reality. (Sorry to dash your hopes, Scarecrow!)

[@alistaircampbell]

I can't believe this film is nearly 83 years old, wow.!!! A REAL CLASSIC MOVIE.!!!

[@thebluemorpho6640]

My Grandfather took my Grandmother to see this movie on their first date. :-) He was 21, and she was 18.

[@Jessethegoodwitch]

That… is beautiful! 🤗

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

:') I file this under W for "wholesome".

[@chiefscheider]

@@KRAFTWERK2K6 what he or she left out is that grandma & grandpa were in the back row and remember nothing about the movie, if you get my drift... jk, I too think it's very sweet 😇

[@timhibbard4226]

In Blake’s defense, The Wicked Witch scared the crap out of kids when this came out and for years after. To the point that Mr Rogers did an early episode decades later on his show where the actress the played the Witch was aa guest and they explained/showed the makeup process to demystify her scariness for kids.

[@BleydTorvall]

The witch didn't bother me when I was a kid, it was the flying monkeys that scared me.

[@victorsixtythree]

@@BleydTorvall Yes! The flying monkeys and specifically the SOUND they make - WOO! WOO! WOOOOO!! and when they rip the scarecrow to pieces! Terrifying!

[@paulgunderson4721]

Beat me to these points! I doubt that L. Frank Baum would have liked this movie. He specifically wrote it as a wonder tale - without terror. Also, growing up in the 60s I watched this many times on my parents' black and white television set. I didn't see the big color reveal until I saw the movie on the big screen in a revival house theater.

[@Wawagirl17]

@@BleydTorvall My cousin's husband is still freaked out by the flying monkeys and he's in his 50's.

[@allantidgwell5624]

@@paulgunderson4721 "wrote it as a wonder tale - without terror" Did you even read the books!? There are wolves who get hacked to pieces. The stories are an American take on Grimm Tales. They're supposed to be scary so the positive messages stick with the kid

[@bryannewberry7081]

I used to have a Cairn terrier named Ruby she was the coolest dog and she did not give two f's . She went from living in apartments to living in the country when I got her and she was always out in the woods chasing something down and being a good old country dog. She lived until the ripe old age of 18 and died of old age.❤❤

[@Pokyhawk]

Personal experience: This and Heidi were both considered Thanksgiving movies when i was a kid. Why? Because one of the networks would broadcast them on Thanksgiving day to keep the kids from bugging mom in the kitchen and dad watching the NFL on the other networks. That's why.

[@ApolloCDR]

Except for that time the preempted the end of the Raider game with the movie Heidi. Dad WAS PISSED!

[@gippywhite]

The Avengers: Nick Fury: “... And I would like to know how Loki used it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys.” Thor: “Monkeys? I do not understand.” Steve Rogers: “I do. I understood that reference.” And now you too understand that reference!!! 😁💙💙💙

[@dawntownsendable]

The overall biggest lesson of this movie was that everything the characters wanted they already had. They just didn’t know it. Even the wizard. Once he was found out the good people of Oz still listened to him, respected him & obeyed him. They believed in him. Dorothy has to realize that no matter how gloomy her life on the farm was, she was surrounded by people who loved her & she had no fears there. There’s no place like home. The scarecrow was always smart. Figuring out what to do. Always coming up with a plan. The tin man was always emotional. He wore his preverbal heart on his sleeve. He cared, he cried, he showed fear, joy, excitement. He had emotions all along. And the “cowardly” lion was always courageous when he truly needed to be. The gifts they were given were only to make them feel as though they finally had something they desired yet had all along but didn’t realize it. The wizard felt important & powerful having bestowed these things upon them all. Because just like professor Marvel, he was a fraud who didn’t believe in himself but desperately wanted others to believe in him. I never thought they could make a prequel to this movie that’d do the original any justice. But I highly recommend you watch “Oz the great and powerful “ soon. It’s pretty good.

[@gerardcolometo1783]

I agreed with everything you said until you started talking about the...let's say...not good prequel.

[@jeffcoat1959]

🎵 Oh, Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man That he didn't, didn't already have....🎶

[@rabbithole9555]

You are the essence of Dorothy...pure joy to watch and listen to. Another great and fun movie review. Now to answer your questions... Yes the correct term for the Munchkin Actors is... Little People, most the 124 were young adults around 18 years old. The poppies poison fragrance smell got frozen by Glinda's cold snow, so they all could wake up. The hour glass was a timer of how long it would take the witch to prepare a brew in a cauldron to make a Shrinking spell to shrink Dorothy to get the ruby slippers. Deleted script scene, it's online. Did I answer everything, I feel like I missed something. Oh the Kansas brown and white color is called Sepia. Toto's real name was Terry and a female dog.

[@ferrierepc]

The poppies "poison" is now known as heroin! An opiate which certain poppies produce...typically in Afghanistan. The part that is used is called "Tears of Poppies" as it excretes off the poppies like resin from a pine tree. Just a fact.

[@isoldejaneholland8370]

Toto was a girl and Lassie was a boy.....!!! The gender police gang would really hate classic cinema doggies.

[@ferrierepc]

@@isoldejaneholland8370 LOL..! Sadly, you are correct. Wonder of they'd ban films, shall I say, in Florida, knowing this blasphemous and "hidden" reversal of gender roles that have taken place through the years!? I wonder, given that the old TV show "Flipper" was supposed to be in Florida, I think, if Flipper the dolphin was male or female...as they called Flipper "he"...or is "he" now a "they"? Can't keep up...but what a blasphemous thing switching genders on animal stars we always assumed were of a certain gender. Wonder if they had separate toilet areas. What a sad state we are in, as in state of mind, that these questions and thoughts even come to mind. Cheers!

[@isoldejaneholland8370]

@@ferrierepc I was curious, so I looked it up : 'Flipper' was played by five different females! Except for the famous 'tail walk,' which for some reason is difficult for females to master perfectly. So a male 'stunt dolphin' was brought in for that.

[@ferrierepc]

@@isoldejaneholland8370 HAHAHAHA! Pulled a fast one on DeSantis! Not to get political about it. Would love to be a journalist if for nothing else but to ask him and those of his ilk about their favorite animal shows growing up.Wonder, now, about "National Velvet"...was that horse Elizabeth Taylor called that horse a "he".....but was he? Well, I just looked and he was. One must be precise about these things. Was Skippy the Bush kangaroo, which was called "he" is memory serves, in truth a "he" or did no one really care because it was a cute show..and if there was a gender reversal, some people would proclaim that is was an Australian show....so it doesn't count....but just looked, and Skippy was a female which anyone would know as she had a pouch, which makes don't have as they don't procreate. Ah, the list goes on and on....and those hard decisions were not hard at all, at the time...but they were made by who was the best horse, kangaroo, dolphin, dog...My, my, thankfully, now, in some parts of the USA, we have the government to decide for us who is who and what is what and who should be doing what...and when. Just saying. Next!?

[@previewqueen]

To answer your question about the munchkins, yes they are all little people. In fact it was the largest gathering of little people in history at the time, about 100+ and many had never met another little person before. It became so impactful and meaningful to them that since then they have had reunions and created little people conferences and support groups from this. One of the more positive things that came from this movie

[@toddlower5546]

There are stories about the munchkins getting into much mischief, i.e. drunken parties, etc. while filming.

[@ASKMEABOUTMYGARDEN]

Some were actual children too

[@jamesacoffey9006]

Just an FYI re Margaret Hamilton who played the wicked witch, in real life she was a total sweetheart. I had an older friend who taught school in the sixties near where Margaret Hamilton lived. Her students were scared of the witch as well, so my friend wrote Hamilton, explained the situation and invited her to visit her class. Hamilton accepted, explained to the kids what acting was all about, told tales of her experience making the film, and won the kids over with her charm. Apparently Hamilton was overwhelmed by the attention and was brought to tears. Hamilton was a wonderful woman, as was my friend. RIP Gerry

[@carlosspeicywiener7018]

Fun fact Margaret Hamilton (the wicked witch of the west) was super nice and very generous to children's charities and schools, but the character was so scary that when she was on sesame street, the episode only aired once and was never seen again. Her guest appearance on mister Rogers neighborhood was all about Hollywood and make believe in the movies. They were just perfect together. Edit: She was seriously burned by the fireball in the munchkin village scene.

[@chrisbrown3907]

I believe she also did a commercial for Maxwell house coffee.

[@jamestaylor2920]

For her spectacular exit she was to step on a trap door, swirl her cape, the trap door would drop her below the stage, burst of flame through the opened trap door, then close the trap door while the fire burned away. Unfortunately the trap door started dropping her but the flame started before she was clear. Her costume and makeup caught fire. The scene in the movie was the original, as it was never reshot.

[@takkycat]

Her makeup was also SUPER TOXIC!

[@scottboswell6406]

@@chrisbrown3907 She did several commercials for Maxwellhouse, and was their spokesperson for years. All as herself, no makeup, haha!

[@oaf-77]

I remember her on Mr Rogers

[@chrismaverick9828]

I can't quite fathom the wonder of the theater-goer who saw the switch from B&W to Color.... Had to be absolutely amazing.

[@FinarfinNoldorin]

The first time I ever saw this movie as a kid, color tv's were just coming out. We all gathered at our neighbor's house for an Oz party to watch it. When that door opened, there was a gasp you we just knew could be heard around the world. It was amazing. It became a holiday tradition to repeat every year. What a wonderful memory. Thank you for watching it with me in this way. :)

[@NestorCustodio]

I totally get not having seen some classic films, but so much of this story is just part of the general cultural knowledge that my brain melted a little bit when you were surprised to learn that the witch died from water, or that the giant Oz head wasn't real. 😂

[@SkageXL5]

Yeah, for a while it was on TV all the time, it's like Hot Fuzz on ITV2 now!

[@Wawagirl17]

Right?! Like, "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" has become such a popular expression when referring to con-artists / professional liars / phony politicians and religious leaders, etc. I always assume that type of stuff makes it near impossible to not know at least that part of the movie.

[@SkageXL5]

@@Wawagirl17 it's an 80 year old beloved movie, it's going to have leaked into the culture!

[@CalciumChief]

Like dang, man. Those things are referenced/joke about in every other comedy show even to this day.

[@weldonwin]

The other thing this movie is famous for, is the absolute Sh*tstorm that was the shoot, with the Wicked Witch getting third degree burns from the pyros during her exit, the first TWO actors who played the tinman getting poisoned by the silver makeup, the Munchkins getting drunk and Judy Garland being kept on a diet of coffee and cigarettes to keep her thin for the whole of shooting.

[@ericnasset47]

All these years later, the moment when you see OZ in full Technicolor still holds up. Can you imagine seeing that for the first time, in the theater, in 1939?

[@chiefscheider]

From what I've read, many people ran screaming from the theater or fainted. Not unlike the reactions years later during The Exorcist

[@regould221]

My farther told me it was a oooooo aaaaaaa moment when he saw it in 1939.

[@Grace-cs5sk]

I remember my parents getting me this movie for christmas when i was 7 and i watched it and was probably the only one that wasn't really scared of the movie except seeing the wizard for the first time but i enjoy singing the songs they are so so good. Tin man being my favorite he's such a sweet loveable character with the biggest heart you can find and i think we all need people like him Scarecrow and Lion that when things are bad your friends will always be there for you and would sacrife their own life to save yours

[@paulascott5701]

Up until some time in the 80s or 90s (I think), The Wizard Of Oz came on television ONCE a year very close to Easter. It was a very special event! I can remember being 4 or 5 years old and SOBBING in fear of the witch, I was inconsolable. She was the best witch of all time. My little pre-school self couldn't handle her threatening Dorothy AND Toto. It broke my heart an horrified me. Her mocking Dorothy when she cried for Auntie Em....it was too much for me. I love this movie and it is impossible to get tired of it. Only Judy Garland could have played Dorothy - she was such a likable girl - everybody loves Dorothy.

[@PlasmaMongoose]

1/ The brown and white parts of the film is Sepia (pronounced C-P-Ah), the brown filter is added to the monochrome film to make things including people look more natural. 2/ The twister special effect is considered by many Storm Chasers (an actual job) to be one of the most realistic looking tornados ever shown in a movie which is impressive for a movie made in 1939. 3/ The actress playing Glinda was 54 years old at the time, I was surprised to learn this as I thought she was decades younger than that.

[@ThreadBomb]

The color is called sepia, but when it's applied to film it's called sepia tone.

[@greatestscott6599]

(sēp'ē-ə) SEEP-ee-uh

[@SilentSooYun]

If I remember correctly, the tornado was done using a fan blowing through a silk stocking... kinda like one of those inflatable wavy-arm guys, only upside-down

[@LAPhil13]

Billie Burke (Glinda) was a brilliant comic actor, and was the widow of stage impresario Florenz Ziegfield (who produced the Ziegfield Follies).

[@jsharp3165]

“How can you cry if you don’t have a heart?” And that’s the whole moral of the story. Everyone already had what they thought they were missing. Also Technicolor was invented in 1917. But it was prohibitively expensive to use for decades. So no major color films were made until the 1930s and then only rarely. When Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind were both released in Technicolor in 1939, audiences began demanding color for all big spectacle films. That year was a major turning point for color.

[@effigytormented]

Well yes and no, the original story is a metaphor for American politics. The Scarecrow represents the American farmer who needs education, the tin man being American industry needs a heart, and the COwardly Lion is the President of the United states and the Wizard of Oz is the Secretary of the Treasury who could give people these things. At least that's how it were explained to me.

[@cindyknudson2715]

@@effigytormented by who?

[@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710]

@@effigytormented i heard that the story was a treatise of the benefits of a " silver standard " money system over the " gold standard " money system.

[@jacktrainer4387]

The Econ interpretation exists, but is not definitive. It can be read as a story of moving from adolescence to adulthood.

[@shounenbat510]

@@effigytormented Trivia! The book wasn't a metaphor, but a professor in the 60s(?) was looking for a way to better teach the silver standard and stuff to his students so he was the one who made the connections.

[@robcoulton4638]

Interesting fact: The man who directed The Wizard of Oz, Victor Fleming, also directed most of Gone With The Wind. Two massive films in one year. Margaret Hamilton, who played the witch, got badly burnt during a season. Also she was a school teacher before being an actress and spent most of her life working for children's charity. A lovely lady by all accounts. 😊

[@SimonMoon5]

9:47 "Do we see the witch of the south?" Not in the movie, but in the original book that the movie was based on. In fact, Glinda is the witch of the south in the book, whereas the witch of the north is a different character. The witch of the north is the one that sends Dorothy to see the wizard, and then we never see her again. Glinda (the witch of the south) then shows up at the end to tell Dorothy that the silver shoes (not ruby slippers) can send her home. (Also, it's not a dream in the book.)

[@formulah113]

They had to change it because rough and sing the South and a witch would infer that somehow the South was evil.

[@colej.banning2419]

If you read Gregory Maguire's novel _Wicked_ (the one the Broadway play is based on), the two things that always make me laugh is the ends he goes through to avoid a) describing the color of the magic shoes, and b) making explicit exactly what region(s) Glinda is the good witch of. He tries simultaneously stay in canon with *both* continuities, and so it's a lot of fun seeing the various contortions involved in handling the contradictions between the book and the movie if you know what to look for.

[@colej.banning2419]

@@formulah113 Citation? I'm pretty sure they just collapsed the two Good Witches into one to simplify the story. In the book the journey to visit Glinda involves a whole episode about people made out of china (i.e., porcelain) which is completely omitted in the movie.

[@SimonMoon5]

@@colej.banning2419 That's interesting especially considering that the continuity of just the Oz books themselves is full of contradictions. For example, money is mentioned in Oz in the first couple of books, but later, it is stated that there is no money in Oz. And "nobody can die in Oz" is stated in one of the later books, as if the author had forgotten that Dorothy killed two witches in the first book, so this statement later gets amended to "nobody can die in Oz unless they just can't go on living"... which is kind of a meaningless statement, I think. And then, there are the conflicting stories about the origins of Princess Ozma and the role that the Wizard of Oz played in overthrowing the previous ruler of Oz... but as none of that is mentioned in "The Wizard of Oz", I'll just stop here.

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

I remember one time I was watching Japanese animated adaptation of the story on KZbin, and the comments were pretty much filled with “That witch with the traffic cone hat is not Glinda!”

[@telephotousa]

Fun facts about the movie: In the Munchkin Land scene, the actress who played the wicked witch got slightly burned as they lit the pyro prematurely while she dropped through the floor to "disappear" in the flame and smoke. She took six weeks to heal. Toto (real name Terry) was a female and made $125 a week, while the Munchkin actors (mostly all little people) got $50/week. Toto got accidentally stepped on by a stage hand, injuring her paw and she recuperated at Judy Garland's house. Judy loved the dog and wanted to adopt her but her owner declined, as Terry was a busy actress who was in several movies- she ended up with 18 acting credits in all. Oh..btw. The brownish color whose name you're searching for is sepia.

[@breakingames7772]

heres another fact, bet you and nobody else noticed the scarecrow carrying a gun? yup he carried a .38 caliber revolver in the movie. If you dont believe me look it up

[@breakingames7772]

another fact is the producers were evil messed up people, Judy got severly addicted to amphetamines and sleeping pills the rest of her life due to this movie they gave her uppers to do the dancing and acting 12 hours a day then downers to sleep, then more uppers to wake up. They also said she was fat and made her loose 12 pounds and only fed her little tiny dinners, no breakfast or lunch, unless you consider speed a meal

[@STOCKHOLM07]

I was scrolling down for a comment to mention sephia. I kept saying it at the screen

[@ZacBrzuchalski]

The green makeup the witch wore had copper in it. So when the actress playing the witch got burned, her face got the worst of it due to the copper in the green makeup heating up and melting to her skin.

[@kodiem4107]

The snow is asbestos.

[@chel-van-hel3970]

I always liked it when the guard said “that’s a horse of a different color”, and then they go inside OZ and see the horse change colors.

[@darcistephenson5359]

I'm a bit of a nerd, and grew up reading my mom's Oz books. Later, I researched the movie. They used Jello powder to get the color on the horses!

[@SilentSooYun]

@@darcistephenson5359 And one of the biggest problems they had shooting that scene was that the horse kept licking the Jello off... because yum! :)

[@CoopyKat]

18:30 The hourglass was only a TIMER -- her intent was to kill Dorothy herself once time ran out. As a kid, I didn't quite catch that, and I'm glad I didn't!

[@SBaby]

To answer the question, Scarecrow by far. First, I love his dialogue. There's a scene where he says, 'some people without brains do an awful lot of talking'. That line is so relevant nowadays, that I almost dare to say that it might have been prophetic. Secondly, for not having a brain, he's the only one that thought to bring a gun when going after the Witch.

[@yikesgina]

It’s also just fun to watch the man who played him. The way he moved around was so dramatic and fun to watch.

[@chrisquinlan6527]

The Wizard Of Oz improves when you watch other movies from the era. People don't realize how technically advanced this movie was. It is leaps and bounds ahead of its time, and like you said, is extremely watchable today. Glad you finally got to see it!

[@lampad4549]

nah metropolis is better. It may be more technologically advanced but that just makes it the marvel or avatar of that generation.

[@barbara832001]

This used to play on TV every year, so it really became ingrained in people's minds. It's always surprising when I hear people haven't seen it. My mom originally watched it on a black and white TV, and when her uncle bought a color TV they were invited over to watch. She was really surprised when it switched to color. My dad was actually not scared of the witch, but of the flying monkeys. This is also the movie, in Avengers, that references the flying monkeys that Steve Rogers is able to recognize.

[@kristennorth3268]

I had the same surprise as a kid when we finally switched from a b&w television to a color one.

[@intodust420]

I was just telling my daughter that for my entire childhood this was considered a movie for the holidays. We watched it about Thanksgiving time every single year.

[@BleydTorvall]

Yeah, the flying monkeys were what scared me as a kid too!

[@grife3000]

Ashleigh doesn't get that reference yet.

[@kristennorth3268]

@@intodust420 That's interesting! Where I lived, Wizard of Oz always aired right around Easter.

[@davidabbott7270]

Ashleigh you made watching this movie fun again I love you're look at everything as if it's brand new and that child innocence never lose it

[@feedmepauld2597]

Three fun bits of trivia. The guy who played the Tin Man had a lot of health problems because of the silver makeup. The Coat that the fortune teller wore belonged to L. Frank Baum himself. (The author of The Wizard of Oz.) And Margaret Hamilton suffered some bad burns when she got the timing wrong and lost the trap door to disappear through in the Munchkin village, so she didn't get all the way through the door when the fire went off.

[@MrMakeDo]

Interesting fact; In the original books, the Emerald City isn't actually emerald, the Wizard makes everyone wear green tinted glasses that make everything look like emeralds.

[@ladygray6081]

Because the city was made of crystal, it would shine so bright they couldn’t see and the green glasses helped

[@goldilox369]

Damn didn't know that! Nice job, Wiz! Trick those dupes! You're a politician's politician. 😂

[@StarkRG]

@@ladygray6081 It's been a while since I read it, but I'm pretty sure that was just the excuse, the real reasonwas to make it seem nicer than it really was. The movie is great, but the books are far superior from a storytelling perspective. They have better worldbuilding, better characters, etc.

[@StarkRG]

@@goldilox369 He was a travelling stage magician from the US, so he was used to duping people. Oz the Great and Powerful is a kind of prequel film following the Wizard upon his arrival in Oz. It's more a prequel to the books, though, rather than the movie (since the movie makes Oz just a dream), though it takes inspiration from the movie.

[@FanboyFilms]

And in the book, the ruby slippers are actually silver, aren't they? I think they just wanted to show off a color because of the Technicolor.

[@adamsgrad93]

When I was a kid in the late 70's early 80's, and before movie rentals took off, this movie would only come on CBS once a year, (hosted by Angela Lansbury for many years) and I never ever missed it. It was my favorite day of the year!

[@sadfaery]

Yep, my cousins and sisters and I used to watch it together at our grandmother's house every year!

[@mcjim256]

We always watched it on TV too. And if you missed that day you had to wait an entire year for it to come around again.

[@n.d.m.515]

@@mcjim256 about the same time was Cicil B. DeMil's The Ten Commandments in two nights.

[@BeeWhistler]

Oh, yeah, we always piled into the tv room for that. It was as central to my childhood as it was to my dad's.

[@goblinwisdom]

BBC one, for years put the wizard of oz on for new-years eve to fill the time while your waiting for the countdown.

[@catgiles3268]

I just found your channel and you are the absolute funniest reviewer I’ve seen! I couldn’t stop watching you. 😂 I’ve watched this since I was a child and was terrified when I was younger, of the Wicked Witch. Never watched this movie and laughed so hard because of you! Keep going because you’re so much fun to watch!

[@emmabauer1906]

She was terrifying when you see her on the bike in the tornado turn into the witch & that music & the rest of the movie. Margaret Hamilton was the best.

[@gemini2012100]

There was a lot of recasting in this movie. 1. Ray Bolger was originally supposed to play the tinman and Buddy Ebsen was supposed to play the scarecrow, but Bolger wanted to play the scarecrow so he and Ebsen switched roles. Then Ebsen had a severe allergic reaction to the aluminum dust used to make the tinman's makeup and had to spend six months in an iron lung, so the part of the tinman went to Jack Haley. 2. Shirley Temple was originally supposed to play Dorothy, but she was under contract with United Artists, and they wouldn't release her from her contract, so that part went to Judy Garland, whose real name was Frances Gumm. She was an unknown at the time and the studio changed her name to Judy Garland because they thought it sounded more glamorous. 3. W.C. Fields was originally supposed to play the Wizard, but he wanted too much money, so that part went to Frank Morgan. 4. Gale Sondegaard was supposed to play the Wicked Witch of the West, but they decided she was too glamorous, so they asked Margaret Hamilton, to play the Wicked Witch.

[@ApolloCDR]

I wish Ashleigh would do reactions for both Under the Rainbow & The Wiz.

[@BarronessM]

The "goose" in the background was a species of Crane that was just allowed to wander the set. The "hanging man" urban legand was actually one of the onset cranes spreading it's wings.

[@johnnehrich9601]

Exactly. Stupid that people think someone could wander onto the set unnoticed. Doubt the fake trees in the background could support any weight

[@privateeromally7347]

And it was digitally removed from newer editions (only on VHS)

[@porflepopnecker4376]

The annual primetime network airing of this movie was like a national holiday for kids. There was no home video, streaming, etc. that allowed us to watch whatever we wanted whenever we wanted, so we would do whatever it took to be there in front of the TV when it came on. No movie ever seemed quite so magical. Today it's still one of my three favorite movies of all time, along with "King Kong" (1933) and "Shane." I enjoyed your appreciative reaction.

[@badgernation74]

My mom had lost her purse and got a phone call from the person who found it offering to meet her at a store. My sister and I begged to stay home alone at ages 6 and 4 because The Wizard of Oz was going to start…. Whyyyy did it have to be THAT day. Decades later and I still remember.

[@orlandoawilliams799]

"King Kong" (1933) (for sentimental reasons) is my #1 favorite of all time!

[@RebeccaODonnell-1941]

I love that Peter Jackson brought the original King Kong figure to the premiere of his remake and put in the giant creepy valley of the bugs scene the original 1933 script didn’t have the budget for.

[@nirmalsuki]

I think the last movie of that calibre is Home Alone.

[@carameldiva5131]

My annual favorite movie is The Sound of Music

[@jannaromine5908]

Ever since I was 5, this was the next big event for us after Christmas! It aired each year sometime in February I think. This was the 60's and we all knew it was coming soon and we're so excited waiting for it🤗

[@travisfoster1071]

Used to be Easter weekend in Idaho.

[@tlm101155]

Actor Frank Morgan played Professor Marvel, The Emerald City Doorman, The Horse of a Different Color Driver, The Wizard's Doorman and the Wizard of Oz. The snow dropped on the Poppy field was Asbestos. Poor Margaret Hamilton (Wicked Witch of the West) was burned very badly when she exited Munchkinland in an elevator and the Fire ignited too soon. Her Green makeup (copper based) caught on fire giving her severe skin burns and her flammable Costume also ignited. The hanging body is a disproven hoax.

[@ninamravlja3632]

Have you ever heard of a play called “Wicked”? THIS is what THAT is based upon. Buddy Ebsen (Jed Clampett from Beverly Hillbillies) was the original Tin Man, but became deathly ill from the silver paint, so Jack Haley replaced him. There were several musical numbers filmed that didn’t make the final cut. The history behind The Wizard of Oz is very rich. I’m so glad you watched it 😊👍

[@GedUK]

well, Wicked is more based on teh book than the film I think, but yes.

[@TarhosTheKnight]

Oh I heard Wicked is being made into an upcoming film.

[@kenharness7430]

"The dead guy in the tree" has been an urban legend for a long time, but it was just a bird that got loose. Also, Frank Morgan, the Wizard, played 5 characters: Mr. Marvel, the crying guard, the coach driver, Oz and the man behind the curtain.

[@sea-envy3137]

The jacket Mr. Morgan wore as "the wizard" had been owned by Frank L. Baum

[@DemonicGoddess]

never seen a bird shaped like a man, let alone the removal in the anniversery release.

[@sea-envy3137]

@@DemonicGoddess i saw a documentary about it. One of the cranes (looked like a peacock to me) wandering free on set swung it's long neck down and people thought the sudden snap of movement was an actor hanging himself in the background

[@ztm454]

It got removed and it very much looked like a man why would they remove a bird

[@StillLoveItLoud]

@@ztm454 because it looked like a hanging man?

[@acalia_sariah]

This is the first I've seen of your videos, and I have to tell you: it was so much fun to see your reaction to this movie. I'm 20 years old, and I barely saw it for the first time, like, last year. I'm a really big fan of old hollwood musicals (and especially Judy Garland), so of course I had to see this movie. You mentioned at one point how the Scarecrow falls repeatedly throughout the movie. Well, I read somewhere- before I saw the movie- that one of the actors in it was a physical comedian...it didn't take long to figure out who that was.😅 Ray Bolger, who played the Scarecrow, was known for being very physically gifted and funny. I also have to agree with you about how gorgeous Dorothy is. What's so sad is that Judy Garland, who played Dorothy, never believed she was beautiful because she was constantly told by MGM execs that she wasn't. There's only one movie she made called "Meet Me in St.Louis" in 1944 that she claimed she felt beautiful in. I agree with you; she is so pretty here, but she is stunning and gorgeous all the time. I encourage you to watch more of her movies.❤❤❤

[@meajur]

The reason that the Wicked Witch melts when she's splashed with water is because it's a reference to folklore where witches cannot cross running water because water is used to cleanse and symbolizes purity while witches were either the embodiment of evil, or in league with it.

[@darthmix]

It is a weird detail but for some reason I absolutely adore the matte paintings that fill out the Oz shots. They don't look real but they are perfect for the landscape of a dream, creating this beautiful, almost hyper-real world you want to explore. It's the kind of magic you don't see in modern movies because computers have largely made matte paintings obsolete.

[@wrybreadspread]

I have always thought the 1st glimpse of the Emerald City was breathtakingly beautiful.

[@jessicamoore5690]

My favorite is the one in the back when she meets the Scarecrow :)

[@kevenpinder7025]

"Over the Rainbow" came dangerously close to being cut from the movie. The studio head thought it slowed the movie too much, but the film makers fought to keep it in.

[@safespacebear]

"if I was a child I'd be very scared of her". FACTS! I was terrified of the Wicked Witch of the West. My first time trick or treating a teen girl was dressed as her and I saw her and took off running. Threw my pumpkin, candy went everywhere hahaha. The girls mother brought her over to apologize I guess (the girl hadn't done anything bad) and I said I was fine but after she walked away I begged my mom and dad to please take home and I didn't really even want candy. Lol

[@peterblood50]

There actually was a "hanged man" in one scene. Well, sort of... The Wizard of Oz hanging myth is just that - a myth. There is no dead munchkin in The Wizard of Oz, but there is an explanation for where the myth came from, and the silhouette The Wizard of Oz hanging legend is based on does actually exist. The dead munchkin urban legend stemmed from the aforementioned scene that takes place around 45 minutes into the movie in which Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Man walk off in the distance while singing “We’re Off to See the Wizard.” As the trio is seen walking away, the left side of the screen appears to feature a human form hanging from a tree. However, The Wizard of Oz munchkin hanging from the tree isn't a munchkin at all - the silhouette is of a bird in the studio, and it's not hanging. The hanging munchkin in The Wizard of Oz is actually a large bird. Several birds of varying sizes were borrowed from the Los Angeles Zoo and allowed to roam the indoor set to grant it a more outdoorsy feel, adding to the magic that cemented Oz as a pop culture staple. Another appearance of these borrowed birds is the live peacock outside the Tin Man’s shack while Dorothy and Scarecrow attempt to revive him. The figure wrongfully interpreted as a hanging body is, in fact, an emu or a crane. So the story you heard was, at least, partially correct.

[@JohnWilsonComicsGuy]

The meme of the supposed "Hanging Munchkin" was in the back of the scene where they pick up the Tin Man and encounter the Wicked Witch. If you look beyond the cottage at the trees, you'll see movement in the very back of the set near the matte-painted wall. What people claim was a munchkin hanging himself was actually a swan spreading his wings and shaking them. And the color you are trying to remember from the beginning is Sepeatone.

[@Otokichi786]

Speaking as a photographer, the word is: "Sepia,"

[@JohnWilsonComicsGuy]

@@Otokichi786 You are right, I was hoping spellcheck would catch that. My spelling is horrible.

[@Otokichi786]

@@JohnWilsonComicsGuy I have found the KZbin "spell checker/highlighter" to be wrong as often as it flags mifspeiled words. (Especially foreign languages, too!;)

[@Oddballkane]

It was an emu, not a Swan.

[@philipmay3548]

"Over the Rainbow" was voted the greatest song of the 20th century in a poll conducted by the National Endowment of the Arts and the Recording Industry Association of America. Your comment that there cannot be songs this good is spot on. MGM actually pulled the song out of the movie. Their executives said it slowed the movie down. The producer threatened to quit if they didn't put it back in.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

not Splish Splash?

[@slw59]

MGM chief executive Louis B. Mayer thought it "slowed down the picture," was far over the heads of its targeted child audience, and sounded "like something for Jeanette MacDonald, not for a little girl singing in a barnyard". Fleming, producer Mervyn LeRoy, associate producer Arthur Freed, and Roger Edens, who was Judy Garland's vocal coach and mentor, fought together to have the song reinserted back into the film and they eventually won.

[@AuspexAO]

It's kind of comforting to know that after a massive world war, the mapping of the human genome, and the creation of a global information network, that studio executives are still just as stupid and clueless as they ever have been. The more things chance, the more they stay the same.

[@gemini2012100]

Ray Bolger, who played the scarecrow, really was that limber.

[@littleghostfilms3012]

The flying monkeys were creepy as hell when I was a kid watching this, but honestly I always looked forward to seeing them just because of that.

[@williambevins]

The beginning of this movie was filmed in sepia tones. When Dorothy first saw Oz the transition to color made audiences gasp at the change. They hired around 122 little people to be the munchkins. According to legend, these little people would get rip-roaring drunk and had wild parties that were X-rated. True or not, their antics of the little people were portrayed in the 1981 film Under The Rainbow. Bert Lahr's suit was actually made from the skins of two lions. The "horse of a different color" was colored by using flavored gelatin. Reportedly they had to work hard to keep the horses from licking it off.

[@turbulentlobster]

When I was a kid, this movie was on TV every year. In those days, though, we had a black and white set. I can remember my mom (who had seen it in the movie theaters as a kid) trying really hard to explain to us how in Oz everything was in color and it was really cool, but we had to use our imaginations.

[@thekpmckay]

@@turbulentlobster Me Too! I didn't understand the "Horse of a different color" line for years.

[@stevendavis9655]

Under The Rainbow, an under-appreciated comic gem. "Zee pearl isht in zee Rivaaa."

[@fractaljack210]

My mum was six when she saw the film, and the transition to colour was one of her favourite childhood memories.

[@ronsavage6491]

Nick over at Nickflix gasped as well-- in mid sentence. He's such a little kid.

[@DegrassiInstantStar]

A TRUE classic never goes out of style and _The Wizard of Oz_ fits that description perfectly. The behind-the-scenes of this film and its impact on the legend that is Judy Garland is so heartbreaking.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

Yeah, she lived on a diet of.... several packs of cigarettes per day... That poor girl was abused like crazy by the studio system.

[@alanholck7995]

Yes, she was abused w/ the studio system, & she also had an overbearing stage mother that didn't help the situation. And her career peaked in Wizard if Oz at age 16.

[@AndrewKendall71]

"Where's this?... this sure ain't the farm" = Ashleigh-ism for "we're not in Kansas anymore" 😁

[@evanhorton2520]

Although Somewhere Over the Rainbow was almost cut from the film, it received the Academy Award for best song that year. Wizard lost out to Gone With The Wind for best picture. Originally the Tin man was played by Buddy Ebsen (later Jed Clampett on The Beverly Hillbillies tv show), but the makeup contained Aluminum which sent him to the hospital. I got to see this movie upon its 75th anniversary in Imax...amazing!

[@RDRussell2]

Back when there were only three channels, this movie was shown every year on Thanksgiving. I remember watching it on TV for the first time in the mid-1970s. Then the following year you might be with different friends and family, but you would still gather and watch it all over again. In my family, as I recall, we'd make popcorn (the non-microwave kind) and wait with great expectation for the movie to start. With all the commercials, the damn thing ran for three hours, but it was a tradition to tune in and watch this. Every year a new generation would get hooked on The Wizard of Oz. It truly was a part of the national culture. Now, everything is splintered and we watch what we want to when we want to, via streaming. The technology available to us is amazing, and I wouldn't want to go back to the old days. But I also acknowledge it is sad what we have lost. I mean, my goodness, there are people who have NEVER EVEN SEEN THIS MOVIE!

[@MrRezRising]

WoO was Easter. King Kong was Thanksgiving. Sometimes Mighty Joe Young too. 🤘

[@HemlockRidge]

@@MrRezRising Yup.

[@MrRezRising]

@@HemlockRidge From Wiki. Did some digging. The 1959-1962 broadcasts occurred in autumn between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Beginning with the 1963-64 season, these special presentations were seen in the first quarter of the year as well as around Easter and Passover. The film was not broadcast in the U.S. in 1963, 1992, 1995, or 1997.

[@FanboyFilms]

I don't know if was different in different regions. Like RR, I was used to seeing Wizard every Thanksgiving as I grew up in the 80s. Until Ted Turner bought it up, I believe. Ten Commandments ran every Easter.

[@HemlockRidge]

@@FanboyFilms IDK. I just know that when I was little, I was watching WoO while eating from my Easter Basket.

[@MarkCalise]

"Do we see a witch of the south?" Not in the movie, but in the book, Glinda is the good witch of the south, and we don't see here until the end. The witch she meets when she first arrives in Oz in the book is an unnamed good witch of the North. Also in the book, it's not a dream, it really happens. Last summer I played the wicked witch of the west in a local production of the wizard of oz.

[@thomast8539]

Books ruin films. People need to stop reading them and just watch films instead. No, I am not entirely joking. Have grown tired of the complainers listing their gripes about how films never follow the books. Books don't have a time constraint, but films have to be edited for time and therein lies the problem but readers never stop bitching about it.

[@BofaMahnuts]

In Oz great and powerful doesn't Glinda turn into Witch of the East ?

[@billwenham]

@@thomast8539 Who was bitching?

[@arisucheddar3097]

@@thomast8539 OP was answering a question Ashleigh had during the review. It's a wonderful movie, and the books are their own thing.

[@kp22kc]

@@BofaMahnuts no, Glinda and Evanora (Witch of the East) fight and Glinda crushes her necklace with the jewel, taking her powers and her good looks. Then the apes fly her off to the East (I'm assuming.) Also, I assume if they made a sequel Theodora would have given her sister her ruby ring and gave her powers again.

[@mrscb5303]

This is the first video of yours I’ve seen. I was a bit hesitant as this is a beloved movie from my childhood. You are adorable and loved watching you experience it!!💚

[@sylvanaire]

I was born in 1960 & by the time I was 5-6yo, I was watching this every year. I think it was on in the fall so that could be another reason it is considered a Thanksgiving movie. We didn’t have a color tv when I was little so the whole thing was b&w for me for several years. I was at my great aunt Hazel’s house the 1st time I saw it in color & I remember hiding behind her recliner when the witch’s huge green face is projected into the crystal ball, lol. It was quite a shock! Also, I recall Danny Kaye coming on at the beginning of the movie to tell us not to change the color settings on our tvs as the color would come in later. I loved Danny Kaye! 🥰

[@nikkipittman761]

The Good Witch Of The South: In the novel, Glinda IS the Witch Of The South, and doesn't appear until near the end when the group travels to seek her advice in getting Dorothy home. The Witch Of The North that greets Dorothy and gives her the slippers is a different character, Tattypoo. Also, there are a LOT of books - in the novels Oz is a real place, and Dorothy eventually moves there permanently with her aunt and uncle. c:

[@tj_2701]

The books are way darker too aren't they.

[@mcfaning]

The books are different. Kind of why we haven't have a decent adaptation. It would be hard to make General Jinjur and her army not a sexist stereotype

[@smithincanton]

@@tj_2701 One scene they skip over is right aftwr they pick up the lion where the party have to cross a gully and have to pass these creatures that are bears that stand on their hind legs and have lobster claws for hands! They also glossed over getting out of the poppies. There were a village of mice that help them by carrying them out of the field.

[@TheReySkywalker]

Little fact: Buddy Ebsen (Beverly Hillbillies, Breakfast at Tiffany’s) was originally the Tin-Man. But the aluminum makeup gave him a reaction so he spent 2 weeks in the hospital. Jack Haley replaced him and they reshot scenes they already filmed with Ebsen. You can still hear Ebsen’s voice during “We’re Off to See The Wizard”.

[@marianne5055]

And speaking of Jack Haley, I always thought it was interesting that his son Jack Haley Jr ended up marrying Judy Garland's daughter Liza Minnelli.

[@mmgoodwings3981]

I was looking for this fact!!

[@markpekrul4393]

It wasn't an allergic reaction - this is a story the studio put out, and Ebsen was still mighty pissed about it when I heard an interview with him shortly before he died. It was the chemical composition of the make up which almost killed him. They changed it up for Jack Haley.

[@DamonNomad82]

Also, Buddy Ebsen was originally cast as the Scarecrow and Ray Bolger was cast as the Tin Man. Bolger's fame was mostly as a dancer, and he was worried that the heavy tin costume would restrict his dancing moves, so he persuaded Ebsen and the producers to let them trade roles. Then, Ebsen was almost killed by inhaling the aluminum dust that was part of the makeup for the Tin Man costume and had to be hospitalized. Jack Haley, his replacement, got a safer, aluminum paste makeup, which didn't endanger his life but did give him a nasty eye infection.

[@michelea2326]

@@markpekrul4393 yeahhhhh... if I'm not mistaken the makeup contained lead and he got lead poisoning.

[@jetseterii]

The big bird you thought was a goose (@ 11:49) is most likely a Sandhill Crane. It looked like the right size & coloring and they are known for their dancing skills especially during courtship displays ^_^ And water tends to "reverse or wash off" spells in some folklore, supposedly that's why Glinda's snow wakes them up from the poppies spell.

[@airgunfun4248]

ribeye in the sky

[@annaolson4828]

The "hanging munchkin" is an urban legend, fueled by not having high-def versions of the movie. The questionable frame actually shows a large crane stretching its wings. They rented birds from the LA zoo to have on set. You might have noticed a toucan sitting in the apple trees, too.

[@NotData]

The Thanksgiving feel is because this movie was once shown annually on prime time TV around this time. Before the era of recording shows, this was always a holiday treat.

[@thomast8539]

Not everywhere... it was shown every May where I grew up.

[@NotData]

@@thomast8539 You must be younger than me. In the 1960s, CBS showed it in prime time ever year around this time. I think this changed in later decades, especially when Ted Turner got the rights. Then TBS or TCM would show film God knows when.

[@anneb889]

I was trying to remember too…..I think The Wizard of Oz was always on around Thanksgiving/Xmas time, and The Sound of Music was always on around Easter. They were evens you made sure you were watching growing up. Something to look forward to.

[@MrRezRising]

@@NotData 1956 MGM sold the tv rights to CBS. Wiki: The 1959-1962 broadcasts occurred in autumn between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Beginning with the 1963-64 season, these special presentations were seen in the first quarter of the year as well as around Easter and Passover. The film was not broadcast in the U.S. in 1963, 1992, 1995, or 1997.

[@sweeney60]

This movie has been shown on tv for decades at thanksgiving when they knew families would be together and want to watch a family friendly movie. It’s not really thanksgiving themed but is a tradition for a lot of people at thanksgiving.

[@Otokichi786]

To misquote a familiar meme: "It's not Thanksgiving until Dorothy lands on the Wicked Witch of the East!";)

[@Concetta20]

That tornado effect was so good. It scared me as a kid! It’s a nylon stocking wrapped around a wire and they spun in around like mixer blade!

[@smavtmb2196]

I liked this movie as a kid but it always drove me nuts how absurdly easy it was to kill the wicked witch. Every living thing needs water to survive except wicked witches apparently. Seriously? Ashleigh your response to her death was spot on.

[@Drobium77]

also, what are witches made of, if witches are just people, they'd be made of 70% water??

[@tomlinson1710]

According to the book, she’s so evil that her blood dried up. So she’s more susceptible to water

[@MacDorsai]

FYI, Judy Garland was 16 when she did this movie. At the beginning, the 40 years referred to when the book was written. So approx 1899, and 40 years to the movie in 1939. When I was a kid, I also thought she was going to die when the sand ran out, but I think it was intended simply as a time piece. When the sands ran out, the witch would come back and kill her. As for the flying monkeys, yeah, they were terrifying when I was a kid. Somewhere in that time (when I was young), McHale's Navy and other WWII related shows and movies were big and I remember coping with the monkeys by imagining I had a twin .50 cal machinegun mount under the tree line so I could shoot down all the monkeys as they came flying down. This is one of those movies where you don't know if Oz is real, or just her hallucination after hitting her head. The witch was the mean lady on the bicycle. The wizard was Professor Marvel. And of course the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion were the farm hands. But there were later books and animated films where Dorothy returned to Oz. You can also do some trivia searching regarding the actors who played the Munchkins and the shenanigans that went on. Glad you liked it!

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

Part of the issue with the munchkins was that they needed so many little people that they were just any random person of the right size. Only a small portion were professional performers with singing, dancing, and acting skills. Most were just whoever they could get to do it. Put that many random people not used to being on set in one place, shenanigans are guaranteed.

[@doncarlin9081]

The books though were clear the Land of Oz was a real place.

[@KeyJKandy]

Fun fact: The tin man, the scarecrow, and the lion all already had the attributes that they wanted to get from the wizard. The scarecrow was incredibly intelligent and always came up with the plans that everyone used throughout the movie. The tin man was very emotional, he was crying at the movie and clearly was a bit of a romantic. and while the Lion gets scared pretty often, he still do what he had to do to help his friends so that showed his bravery. What the wizard helped them deal was realize what they already had.

[@merlynjep]

But Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man that he didn't already have.

[@doncarlin9081]

Which is interesting because in the book the wizard did give the three what they wanted. Supposedly the ending in the movie version was a statement against the (1930's) progressive movement.

[@Logan_Baron]

And bravery or courage is not lack of fear, but fighting through it.

[@bongodave13]

@@merlynjep Same line went through my head. lol

[@bongodave13]

@@Logan_Baron Exactly. Courage is facing what you fear, not the absence of fear.

[@videohistory722]

The horses in Oz were colored by powdered jello. They had to film it very quickly because the horses kept licking it off.

[@feldweible]

Buddy Ebson was originally cast as the Tin Man. But the make up they were using for him was aluminum powder. He inhaled some much during the applications and filming that it coated his lungs and he nearly died. They put Jack Haley, who was the original Scarecrow in the Tin Man role and changed the make up to an aluminum paste. Jack recommended Ray Bolger to replace him as the Scarecrow. Margaret Hamilton, Miss Gulch/Wicked Witch of the West, had her eyebrows burned off by that burst of fire when she left the Munchkins. She spent so much time in her make up that her skin was noticeably green tinted for a LONG time after filming was over. Before getting into acting, She was a Kindergarden Teacher.

[@emperorkalan]

The "goose" was some kind of stork or egret. The "body" of meme lore was just another big bird they had wandering in the background on set (or maybe the same one). It was far in the background, and thanks to some of the tree branches someone thought it looked like a hanging body. And once the "shocking thing you didn't notice in kids film" factoid started circulating, no amount of facts would shut it down. There was always someone new for the OMG! reaction.

[@gspendlove]

Same thing with the "ghost" on the set of Three Men and a Baby. It was a cardboard stand-up display of Ted Danson's character, who was a model and an actor.

[@djC653]

I believe it's a Sandhill Crane

[@d4c467]

This actually isnt true, the original video depicting the body has been proven to be edited. It is actually just a bird tho

[@MrEricrockinout]

Yeah the quality back in the day was not as good as today (obviously) So it did kinda look like a person hanging lol

[@hshaughnessy17]

My friends and I watched for that scene over and over back in the 80s and you could see what looked like a shadow standing on something and then the something tip over or fall off and it could have been someone hanging. As glad as I am that no one actually committed suicide it is still a little disappointing that it was just a bird in the background.

[@marthaclanton]

The movie transitioning from sepia to color was HUGE! when it first came out. The color was extremely expensive, so most movies were in Sepia or Black and White. If I remember right, the studio almost canceled the film because of it, but a surprise secret viewing showed that the audience loved it so they went for it.

[@greatestscott6599]

Before, we only had color in lousy real life. 😔

[@Aazure_Skys]

@@greatestscott6599 Theres a great scean in City Slickers where Billy Crystals character is talking about his father and going to a baseball game for the first time. That was the first time he say a proffessional base ball game in color because their tv at home was still in black and white.

[@jackilynpyzocha662]

The Wizard, guy in green and behind the curtain and Oz were played by Frank Morgan. His coat as the Professor Marvel was from L. Frank Baum!

[@bagelj]

Also, the surviving little people performers were reunited in the 1981 film, “Over the Rainbow” 🌈 staring Carrie Fisher and Chevy Chase

[@airgunfun4248]

midgets

[@christophermichaelrobinson974]

Just a quick shout out to thank you for this review. The WOZ was my late wife's very favorite movie, and as sad as I sometimes become watching it with our three kids over the years since her passing, having wonderful reviews like yours makes it all better! You're awesome Ashleigh and congrats because you are almost at 100,000 subs!!!

[@realPenrodPooch]

If I could subscribe a few more times, I would.

[@TheReySkywalker]

Little fact: Margaret Hamilton who plays the Wicked Witch of The West got third degree burns on her face and second degree burns on her hands during her exit from Munchkinland. The flames rose too soon before she descended under the stage. They had to remove her makeup with alcohol because it was copper based. She had a green tint to her skin long after they were done filming. She was also so terrifying to children that they cut down her lines significantly in the final cut. She also appeared on a 1976 episode of Sesame Street as the witch. The production got so many complaints from parents whose kids were terrified. They pulled the episode and it hasn’t aired once since 1976.

[@ShortyLongstrokin]

Margaret Hamilton also appeared on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood in costume, but out of makeup, to help kids not be scared of her performance or of witches in costume. By most accounts, Hamilton was a very nice person and reportedly the only person on-set in this movie that was nice to Judy Garland.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

She also had an appearance at Mister Rogers Neighborhood :)

[@Grizzlox]

My grandmother met Margaret Hamilton and said she was one of the sweetest, kindest people she's ever met.

[@crepesoftime]

2:53 The "nearly 40 years" is in reference to when the book by L. Frank Baum was written which was 1900. So 1939, almost 40 years when this film was released.

[@helenwright413]

In answer to your question about the poppy scene: opium comes from poppies, so the movie is trying to portray that the pollen from the flowers floating in the air is sending them on an opium high. So the snow would dampen the pollen in the air, covering it up as it falls to the ground, so they can breathe fresh air and wake up. Fun fact, that "snow" that falls down was actually 100% asbesdos 💀 There's loads of other fun facts about the costumes from this movie that you might be interested in, because you asked about how long it took them to get into costume. For example, the Cowardly Lion costume was an actual lion skin. The Tin Man's face paint was made from aluminium dust which is toxic and ended up putting the actor in an iron lung.

[@midnighthour733]

"What in the acid trip is that"....Ashleigh that was such a classic line that had me laughing! I love your reactions and this movie is such a big deal so glad you finally watched it. I got to see it in the theater (my local would run it every few years in the 60s) and the witch with her flying monkey things always scared me. The witch putting them all 'in a kind of death sleep' using a poppy field and Glinda waking them up with 'snow' sure seem like references to certain popular drugs to me. There is a lot of lore and fun facts behind this classic so look into it more.

[@juriskrumgolds5810]

I just came in to say the same thing because hippies in 1970s used to drop acid and watch Wizard of Oz but with no sound but with Dark Side of the Moon playing

[@djmeghan]

@@juriskrumgolds5810 Yes 😁

[@ThreadBomb]

I thought the snow woke them just from being cold. BTW, supposedly that fake snow was made from asbestos!

[@michaelzurilla7639]

Poppies are where are you get opium from. A downer. ‘Snow’, slang for cocaine, is an upper. Glinda knew what she was doing ❄️

[@bellydansah]

so glad someone referenced the drug symbolism in the poppy field. Yes, poppies are where opium comes from, which would have definitely put them into a hazy dreamlike, "sleep" state, and "snow" is, as someone pointed out, slang for cocaine, which would have woken them right up. This movie is "trippy" looking for many reasons :)

[@Hey_Jamie]

“10 out of 5 stars for Toto’s acting abilities!” That’s what the studio thought, too. That’s why he made more per week than the munchkins.

[@katelynpringle5506]

Oh no. It says a lot about he history of Hollywood that I believe this without question.

[@ianschrijvers9623]

100% true. Saw a documentary about all the shady and downright life threatening things the producers did to the talent. Shocking stuff

[@RobertSmith-kb3jl]

$250 per week vs $50 per week. Then again, there were 130 Munchkins and 1 dog. It did, however, lead to an advocacy group representing little people(Yes, SJWs, that's what it was called) in the industry.

[@hollyhilliard1603]

The MGM lion was in the Memphis zoo, and that shot was filmed in Memphis.

[@newmoon766]

One of the networks used to show The Wizard of Oz every year between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Thus it became a holiday tradition.

[@salvationsplace]

"Don't know what's to be scared of" 55 years old and the flying monkeys still flip me out...

[@TerryNationB7]

Princess Mombi in Return to Oz (1985) was the one that scared me as a kid (and still creeps me out now).

[@cgbleak]

Full grown here too and I agree, I want no truck with no flying monkeys, no siree bob.

[@barbaraswinford6677]

Same here. I'm 57.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

I must have been VERY very young when i saw this film for the very first time but i vividly remembered a lot of things. Like the amazing twister scene, the transition from Monochrome to Color (The german TV broadcast master back then wasn't sepia but black and white and color) and the yellow brick road and the incredible sets. Dunno how young i was. Probably 4 or so. Then a few years later i saw it again and i was like re-living a distant dream. It was absolutely pure magic and i was amazed at how much i could still remember just from ONE time watching. THAT is how much this film impressed me as a lil boy. And as i grew up i had no idea how old that film already was. I'd always assume it was from the 60s or so but my god was i blown away when i realized it was from the late 1930s. This film really is a loveletter to everyone, old and young, who never give up dreaming about positive things and friendship. It stood the test of time and keeps captivating audiences of all new generations. THAT film is the most wonderful thing you could ever achieve with the medium of motion pictures.

[@Jessethegoodwitch]

It is the first movie I ever remember watching.

[@jackilynpyzocha662]

Leonard Stone, who plays Mr. Salt, was "Farnum" in the 1965-68 Lost in Space tv series, he had an outfit similar to Wonka's. Two episodes. DVD/Blu-Ray.

[@cholesterol6703]

I also watched this once a year as a child. The WWW and her monkeys were about the only thing that ever scared me. She was fear and threat personified.