The sheer brilliance of that tornado effect with the resources available at the time still amazes me! It actually topped many of the ones used in the movie “Twister,” more than a half century later.
I've read that the tornado was made by using a windsock, like from airports, and hooking the top to a crane and the bottom to a car. I forget how they spun it. Brilliant, though!!
My understanding is that it was a 35-foot-long stocking blown by artificial wind and dirt and held up by a gantry. No shock that it was, by far, the priciest scene in the movie. But it worth every penny spent!
Margaret Hamilton was a brilliant actress in this film as evidenced by the lasting effect her performance had on so many people then and since. Her artistic talent went way beyond this movie though, and she never got the recognition she so richly deserved for her work.
I have a picture (Sketching) of Miss Margaret Hamilton in and out of costume in my living room amoung other females actress I have admired over the years.
She was really funny in an episode of Gunsmoke that I recently saw her in. I don’t know much about her history, but I immediately recognized her on the episode because of her lasting impression from The Wizard of Oz.
Interestingly enough, Margaret was relegated to a cramped dressing room, almost as if being treated as the character she played, while Billie Burke (played Glinda) had a luxurious dressing room. The interesting thing about all that is that the character of Glinda hasn't had nearly the influence on culture that Margaret's masterful portrayal of the Wicked Witch has had all these decades later. The term "iconic" gets tossed around quite a bit lately, but damnit if that's not the proper word to describer Margaret's performance.
She was funny! In an interview, she speaks of how she loved the "Wizard of Oz" book as a child, and when she auditioned for a role in the movie, she asked which part she was being considered for. "The witch, of course!" was the response! Her mock indignation was classic! RIP, Miss Gulch, the great Margaret Hamilton.
@@procopiojrpalacios9702 I saw that interview, and the long pause after she recounted the moment when the was informed what part she was selected to play was so funny. The audience listening to her talking about that reacted to it with laughter, and she just smiled knowingly. She was a true class act. Of course, her famous appearance on "The Mister Rogers Show" was where everyone, especially very young kids, could finally see her as she really was, a very gentle lady on a show hosted for her appearance by possibly the gentlest of all men. It's well worth taking a few minutes to watch that, regardless of how young or old you may be.
They had her on the Mister Rogers show once, so the little kids could see that she wasn't a witch after all, that she was actually a very sweet lady. 😀
My father was a bus driver in his youth, and he told me that he actually picked her up on his bus one day. Miss Hamilton lived in Gramercy Park, NY and when he recognized her and asked if she was the wicked witch from The Wizard of Oz, she graciously smiled and said, " That's right, Dearie". After they spoke for a few minutes, she graciously gave him her autograph and she then got off a few stops later. What a great lady may she RIP.
It seems that everyone who knew Margaret had nothing but nice words to say about her. She was a teacher before her legendary role in this movie, and her gentle and patient character really shows in her famous appearance on "The Mister Rogers Show." I wish she were alive so that I could meet her to giver her a big hug.
I got to see her in a theatre play! Back in 1978 I think! My grandmother told me she was in th play! It blew me away to see how tiny she was! I wish I could have gone backstage to meet her..
Yes and Judy Garland said she was wonderful and made it hard for her in the movie because she was supposed to be bad but she really was a great person. RIP.
Take another look at Dorothy watching Auntie Em on the big crystal ball. That's amazing. It wasn't green screen either. You can clearly see Dorothy reflected on the side of the ball, and in color. That would be hard to make using today's tech.
when she transforms into the witch, AMAZINGLY beautiful transition!!!! And Margaret then tilts her head up 2:05 laughing gesture, making it more thrilling!
@@melissacooper8724I’m from Oklahoma and that tornado is damned scary…and realistic. The tornado I’ve seen in real life when I was around nine years old did not scare me as much as the one in the film. But there are tornados, bad ones, exactly like that. (The one in the film)
I saw this in 1949 at age 7. Scared the heck out of me & I worried about possible tornadoes for weeks afterward. My mother reassured me that we didn't have tornadoes in Pittsburgh because there were too many hills.
They created the tornado effect by dangling a 35-foot long muslin tube shaped exactly like a windsock lined with chicken wire from a gantry. They used compressed air to blast fine dust to create the flying debris. It's so well done that it still holds up to this day.
@kingskidgirl2 I'm born and bred from Minnesota, but when I was a toddler, my parents moved us out to California. My first memories were from there. California didn't pan out, so we moved back to Minnesota. Before the move back, I had nightmares about tornadoes knocking on our door and calling on me to open up and let them in. In my dream, my parents would be begging me (whilst cowering from behind furniture): "No, Johnny! Don't let it in!" And the tornado would say: "Johnny, open the door! I have some root beer for you!" So naturally, I would open the door (root beer being my Kryptonite) and then wake up in a panic as all hell ensued. It didn't help that when we reached Minnesota, there had been a tornado which had just ripped through the area and there were trees down and roofs missing everywhere.
These are not deleted scenes. They are from test videos while the special effects men were trying to get a realistic looking tornado. They finally settled on the initial distance scenes before the twister hits, and then close-ups of the funnel as seen from the window.
CORRECT! Many "outsiders" are confused between out takes and deleted scenes. These are out takes of effects tests. Some of them would have worked. Others as in the window view were edited with intercutting between the window and Dorothy. Also the music was edited for the final mix.
@@bbbb-db9gr It was a long muslin bag, narrow like a sock, attached to the rigging above the sound stage and designed to be moved around. The dust is fullers earth blown about by fans.
I saw several buildings, a man milking a cow, a bunch of stuff that didn't make the final cut. Not an entire deleted scene but more like deleted elements.
They make everything in the tornado look so magical. In reality, every person you see in the twister would look like something that didn’t survive an Oliver Stone war flick story line.
Of course. Dorothy was knocked unconscious and everything that happened til the return to black n white was just a dream. Never happened. I've always been amazed at how people just don't get it.
The two guys rowing a boat doff their hats; a reference to "Hurrah for Baffin's Bay", a number in the 1902-03 musical sung by David C. Montgomery and Fred A. Stone as the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman
The 1939 MGM classic movie The Wizard of Oz is my favorite movie of all time! I was born in 1978. I first saw the movie when I was 3! Nothing in the movie scared me then or later! I cannot fathom why MGM deleted any of the original footage, scenes, music, dialogue, song and dance numbers! t was absurd and ridiculous! It was a high mistake! The Wizard of Oz should have run 132 minutes! I am so glad that the original footage was found! I own this on videotape, Laser Disc, DVD and Blue Ray! Thank you for posting and sharing this movie magic!
Wow I love this movie too, but you were braver than me when I was 3, I was hiding behind my Dad's chair peeking around it to see the movie while the witch was on the screen. What a memory.
Couldn’t agree more. People confuse realism with art. Lots of CGI looks “real” but it is without any soul or, most importantly, the human element. I would rather watch these special effects than the most “real” CGI any day of the week.
It is a great movie. The only thing I don't like is it's being shown almost weekly/bi-weekly. It was one once per year when I was a kid. It was something you looked forward to each....Spring? When something is always available or overmarketed, it isn't as special, if that makes sense. Sorta like having Christmas every month or two
For anyone who loves this movie, and other MGM classics, I highly recommend a book called "The Wizard Of MGM", which is details the career of A.Arnold Gillespie, who was head of special effects at MGM for several decades. The book has detailed photos, story boards, script pages , etc, explaining and snowing how many of the effects in "The WIzard Of Oz' , "Forbidden Planet", San Francisco, Ben Hur, and dozens of other films were done. Mr GIllespie also recounts many 'behind the scenes' anecdotes around the making of the films he worked on. The book isn't cheap, but it's worth every penny! (Note: This is not an advertisement. I have no connection in any way to the sales of this book. I'm simply someone who's bought it, read it, and immensely enjoyed it)
For anyone interested, this footage was in the original rough cut of the film, better interspersed throughout (for instance, Dorothy would've seen those extra things out of the window, not just the audience), but children of the time found this scene too frightening in full, so it was trimmed down for its theatrical release. Hope that helps.
I'd disagree that the cyclone fantasy was too "frightening" for children. There is nothing horrific about it since it is a funny use of optical effects. I was seven when I first saw this and wasn't "frightened" by it. The sequence was trimming down for better pacing.
Fun fact: the scene at 2:25 was made by dropping a miniature of the house on the stage floor painted to look like the sky ,they shot it in slow motion, then they reversed the footage.
Oh my god I had been wondering how they did it for the past couple days, thank you so much. I had come up with many possible explanations but this one makes perfect sense. My ideas were something around “they tied a string on a mini replica of the house”.
One of the most beautiful films in cinema 🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥. History 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😢😢. It all looked so real. The Wizard of Oz. Is a classic movies of all time time
I hear ya! It happens to me, too. I would see something in a movie I never noticed until YEARS later. In fact, you just now alerted it to me! 😂 Thanks!
Thank you for sharing this, I've loved this film ever since I can remember-it's TV debut was a year after my birth-so I remember what a huge deal the annual showings were.
I remember what a big deal it was when the movie was shown in color when people started getting colored TV's. That was the late 60s. Now I can watch the movie right now on my phone
Yesterday my great granddaughter and I had a perfect time at our local dinner theater watching a live performance of the Wizard of Oz, the music, singing, dancing and acting was spot on, and yes Toto too. I first saw the Wizard of Oz in a movie theater in 1957.
there are deleted now, as BBC TV in the 90s had a uncut version i can remember watching it, in fact did you know it was 2 Hours and 10 mins the running time on the uncut (On Networks), this days there are so much cuts and edit in fact the running time now is 1 Hour 40 Mins on a normal standard feature , that nearly 30 mins Edited/Cut.
@@jeremiahmercks69 i wish i did record when i saw it in 1991, there shown a extended version only on TV for BBC (from the 70s to 90s), and ran up to 2 hours without Ad, no physical or streaming copies yet has the Extended or Fully Uncut Version. it may do just in time for the 100th year anniversary by 2039 watch this space,,,,
Oh yes, these scenes were in fact deleted from the movie! They were not just test scenes! You really need to use reliable, well researched facts! The 1938 original shooting script is one source and Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale and Terry the female Brindel Cairn Terrier who portrayed Toto scenes were deleted reacting to all of the images flying by Dorothy's bedroom window! Louis B. Mayer, Victor Fleming, and other Studio Executives felt it would be too terrifying for children to see the Gale Farmhouse scooped up inside the Cyclone/Tornado/Twister! Absurd Stuff and Nonsense! It was these adults who were afraid and terrified!
The REAL question is: Does your homeowners insurance cover you for houses blown into the air by a twister, if your house falls and kills a wicked witch any any subsequent lawsuits brought by munchkins for the destruction of their private property by your falling house.
Can we all appreciate just how well those houses in Kansas were built? You can drop one from several thousand feet above the ground from a tornado and when it hits the ground it's still intact. 👍
Nowadays there’d be a Director’s Cut with another half-hour of footage cut from the theatrical release. But back then, cut footage usually vanished into oblivion. Too bad.
- These scenes were never in a distributed or broadcast cut of the Wizard of Oz. And instead of arguing, just go Google please and save yourself the embarrassment. They were removed during the editing process before the original theatrical release.
And like Miss Gulch on her bicycle turning into the Wicked Witch on her broomstick, Professor Marvel in his wagon should have turned into the Wizard in his balloon!
I think if I were Dorothy ... I'd have stayed in Munckin Land. Think about it. I've got my house, my furbaby. Tons of lovable neighbors and everything and everyone is in color. It landed right on the Yellow Brick Rd. 💛 I wouldn't have even bothered to walk down a long road. She could live under Glenda's protection with the ruby slippers as her armor. Me and Toto would be quite comfortable. I mean, damn, my furniture is in tact. Only lost a few dishes.
Im turning 69 next month and I still consider this movie one of the most incredible films ever produced. It ranks up there with Gone With The Wind and The Ten Commandments, as far as I'm concerned.
I completely get you. It's that realistic tornado that haunts me as an adult. Created from a simple nylon stocking and lined with chicken wire, bi- planes on set to create sound and wind, (or so I've read), the tornado and surrounding action still make me cringe. I sometimes wake up with nightmares and Wife asks me, "What's wrong, what was the dream about?!" Still too embarrassed--as a grown man to tell her the truth: "The tornado sequence from the Wizard of Oz". 😂😂
Miss Gulch on the bike changing into the witch along with her wicked laugh scared the daylights out if me as a child.....along with all the other witch scenes......When the annual broadcast was over for another yr....I breathed a huge sigh of relief...my brothers who were not scared like myself would tease me in front of friends....
Stuff in the twister: Tree Trough Bigger tree Antenna/telegraph pole/fence? Small house Bike Tree Chicken coop Grandma Cow Large house Gate Unrecognized thing above Miniature shed Big tree Framework and platform Men in a canoe Huge crate Another cow and chickens Flying thing Small scraps of debris Large boards and shingles The Wicked Witch of the West
@Gabriel The Wizard of Oz Fan 2021 no she didn’t as you most likely know the people in Kansas have Oz counterparts and Miss Gulch is portrayed by Margaret Hamilton and she also plays the wicked witch of the west
Fun Fact: In black and white and in sepia tone, dark colored objects and clothing will remain dark however light colored objects and clothing appear light, so the Witch of the West wears a black dress which would be dark in sepia tone but the witch in the twister has on a light colored dress. In other words the witch in the twister is really the Witch of the East, further evidence of this claim is that I found out that there is a poster of the twister scene colorized and the witch is wearing a silvery grey dress and has red Ruby Slippers on her feet. Ms Almira Gulch was the Wicked Witch of the East
It's a pity they cut or deleted many parts from the movie. Also a pity most of the scenes not included are no longer available so it can't be put together in it's entirety.
What people watching today don't understand is that half of all families still lived on a farm as late as the 1920s. Suburbs weren't really a thing, not as we understand them. You either lived in a city, small town, or on a farm.
They must have cut the scene much later. When i was a kid the tornado scene was intact an was shown on tv. Still scary, as i come from a state that gets hit with these things.
What happened to the dog Toto in real life was a sin. The story goes....when he died in real life and they buried him....years later they built a highway over his grave. SAD...he was beloved by millions even to this day. T.
Yes. She's wearing a lighter outfit with a cape, and has striped socks on with the ruby slippers. You can see her enter the eye of the twister too, which is where the house goes to enter Oz. Margaret Hamilton was never credited for playing both roles, but this scene clearly shows a different witch. And that explains why Miss Gulch never shows up at the end.
The tornado scenes are really good. Gives me goosebumps watching them. I am guessing Ms Gulch did not survive the tornado since the movie had a happy ending.
You watch this movie with your 4 yo kid and you can't peel her off you all day and night because she was so scared. Then 2 years later, she's 6 and watches the movie. "Nah, daddy not scared anymore. I'm a big girl now."
The sheer brilliance of that tornado effect with the resources available at the time still amazes me! It actually topped many of the ones used in the movie “Twister,” more than a half century later.
I've read that the tornado was made by using a windsock, like from airports, and hooking the top to a crane and the bottom to a car. I forget how they spun it. Brilliant, though!!
My understanding is that it was a 35-foot-long stocking blown by artificial wind and dirt and held up by a gantry. No shock that it was, by far, the priciest scene in the movie. But it worth every penny spent!
I thought she was the scariest witch still to this day
Good point
Hence the phrase "We have cows"!
Margaret Hamilton was a brilliant actress in this film as evidenced by the lasting effect her performance had on so many people then and since. Her artistic talent went way beyond this movie though, and she never got the recognition she so richly deserved for her work.
I have a picture (Sketching) of Miss Margaret Hamilton in and out of costume in my living room amoung other females actress I have admired over the years.
She was really funny in an episode of Gunsmoke that I recently saw her in. I don’t know much about her history, but I immediately recognized her on the episode because of her lasting impression from The Wizard of Oz.
Interestingly enough, Margaret was relegated to a cramped dressing room, almost as if being treated as the character she played, while Billie Burke (played Glinda) had a luxurious dressing room.
The interesting thing about all that is that the character of Glinda hasn't had nearly the influence on culture that Margaret's masterful portrayal of the Wicked Witch has had all these decades later.
The term "iconic" gets tossed around quite a bit lately, but damnit if that's not the proper word to describer Margaret's performance.
She was funny! In an interview, she speaks of how she loved the "Wizard of Oz" book as a child, and when she auditioned for a role in the movie, she asked which part she was being considered for. "The witch, of course!" was the response! Her mock indignation was classic! RIP, Miss Gulch, the great Margaret Hamilton.
@@procopiojrpalacios9702 I saw that interview, and the long pause after she recounted the moment when the was informed what part she was selected to play was so funny.
The audience listening to her talking about that reacted to it with laughter, and she just smiled knowingly.
She was a true class act.
Of course, her famous appearance on "The Mister Rogers Show" was where everyone, especially very young kids, could finally see her as she really was, a very gentle lady on a show hosted for her appearance by possibly the gentlest of all men.
It's well worth taking a few minutes to watch that, regardless of how young or old you may be.
Miss Gulch/The Wicked Witch scared the blazes out of me, as an adult! She was also "Cora" from the famed "Maxwell House" coffee ads!
Miss Grinch is more like it.
And “Madge” from the Palmolive commercials.
@@zevyzions No, "Madge" was portrayed by Jan Miner.
She was also a kindergarten teacher
They had her on the Mister Rogers show once, so the little kids could see that she wasn't a witch after all, that she was actually a very sweet lady. 😀
My father was a bus driver in his youth, and he told me that he actually picked her up on his bus one day. Miss Hamilton lived in Gramercy Park, NY and when he recognized her and asked if she was the wicked witch from The Wizard of Oz, she graciously smiled and said, " That's right, Dearie". After they spoke for a few minutes, she graciously gave him her autograph and she then got off a few stops later. What a great lady may she RIP.
It seems that everyone who knew Margaret had nothing but nice words to say about her.
She was a teacher before her legendary role in this movie, and her gentle and patient character really shows in her famous appearance on "The Mister Rogers Show."
I wish she were alive so that I could meet her to giver her a big hug.
I got to see her in a theatre play! Back in 1978 I think! My grandmother told me she was in th play! It blew me away to see how tiny she was! I wish I could have gone backstage to meet her..
She portrayed Morticia's mother on "The Addams Family."
Yes and Judy Garland said she was wonderful and made it hard for her in the movie because she was supposed to be bad but she really was a great person. RIP.
What a really beautiful and touching story.
These effects are from the 30’s and they look better than anything today!
Practical effects > CGI.
No really, they dont!
They were impressive for the 30’s, but it doesn’t even come close to today’s technological effects.
Take another look at Dorothy watching Auntie Em on the big crystal ball. That's amazing.
It wasn't green screen either.
You can clearly see Dorothy reflected on the side of the ball, and in color. That would be hard to make using today's tech.
when she transforms into the witch, AMAZINGLY beautiful transition!!!! And Margaret then tilts her head up 2:05 laughing gesture, making it more thrilling!
That silhouette is the now iconic witch pose
Best Cyclone/Tornado/Twister ever put on film!
I'll say! The tornado definitely scares me the most!
@@melissacooper8724I’m from Oklahoma and that tornado is damned scary…and realistic. The tornado I’ve seen in real life when I was around nine years old did not scare me as much as the one in the film. But there are tornados, bad ones, exactly like that. (The one in the film)
I saw this in 1949 at age 7. Scared the heck out of me & I worried about possible tornadoes for weeks afterward. My mother reassured me that we didn't have tornadoes in Pittsburgh because there were too many hills.
They created the tornado effect by dangling a 35-foot long muslin tube shaped exactly like a windsock lined with chicken wire from a gantry.
They used compressed air to blast fine dust to create the flying debris.
It's so well done that it still holds up to this day.
The tornado scared me way worse than the witch or flying monkeys ever did. 😂🤣
It was very realistic and well done.
As a kid growing up in Minnesota, the tornado was the scariest part of the movie.
RIGHT?!? Still freaks me out to this day (also grew up in MN)!!
@kingskidgirl2 I'm born and bred from Minnesota, but when I was a toddler, my parents moved us out to California. My first memories were from there. California didn't pan out, so we moved back to Minnesota. Before the move back, I had nightmares about tornadoes knocking on our door and calling on me to open up and let them in. In my dream, my parents would be begging me (whilst cowering from behind furniture): "No, Johnny! Don't let it in!" And the tornado would say: "Johnny, open the door! I have some root beer for you!" So naturally, I would open the door (root beer being my Kryptonite) and then wake up in a panic as all hell ensued. It didn't help that when we reached Minnesota, there had been a tornado which had just ripped through the area and there were trees down and roofs missing everywhere.
It looks very real, doesn’t it?
It was the flying monkeys that got me. They still creep me out
These are not deleted scenes. They are from test videos while the special effects men were trying to get a realistic looking tornado. They finally settled on the initial distance scenes before the twister hits, and then close-ups of the funnel as seen from the window.
right these were in the movie
CORRECT! Many "outsiders" are confused between out takes and deleted scenes. These are out takes of effects tests. Some of them would have worked. Others as in the window view were edited with intercutting between the window and Dorothy. Also the music was edited for the final mix.
@@bbbb-db9gr It was a long muslin bag, narrow like a sock, attached to the rigging above the sound stage and designed to be moved around. The dust is fullers earth blown about by fans.
who cares what they're called?
I saw several buildings, a man milking a cow, a bunch of stuff that didn't make the final cut. Not an entire deleted scene but more like deleted elements.
They make everything in the tornado look so magical. In reality, every person you see in the twister would look like something that didn’t survive an Oliver Stone war flick story line.
Of course. Dorothy was knocked unconscious and everything that happened til the return to black n white was just a dream. Never happened. I've always been amazed at how people just don't get it.
The two guys in the rowboat doffing their hats gets me, even to this day! 😄
The two guys rowing a boat doff their hats; a reference to "Hurrah for Baffin's Bay", a number in the 1902-03 musical sung by David C. Montgomery and Fred A. Stone as the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman
The 1939 MGM classic movie The Wizard of Oz is my favorite movie of all time! I was born in 1978. I first saw the movie when I was 3! Nothing in the movie scared me then or later! I cannot fathom why MGM deleted any of the original footage, scenes, music, dialogue, song and dance numbers! t was absurd and ridiculous! It was a high mistake! The Wizard of Oz should have run 132 minutes! I am so glad that the original footage was found! I own this on videotape, Laser Disc, DVD and Blue Ray! Thank you for posting and sharing this movie magic!
i totally agree with you Paul McElveen the wizard of oz is perfect and i was born in 1975 and watched it when i was 4
Wow I love this movie too, but you were braver than me when I was 3, I was hiding behind my Dad's chair peeking around it to see the movie while the witch was on the screen. What a memory.
Who needs computer graphics when you have hands on painstaking genius to get the real effect???!!!!!
Couldn’t agree more. People confuse realism with art. Lots of CGI looks “real” but it is without any soul or, most importantly, the human element. I would rather watch these special effects than the most “real” CGI any day of the week.
Who didn't grow up watching this movie every year?
I've watched it so much that I can say all the lines in unison.
I remember being very little and the giant head freaking me out. Love this movie :)
The most Beloved movie 🍿 of all time!😊
It was a family tradition for us to watch it annually.
It is a great movie. The only thing I don't like is it's being shown almost weekly/bi-weekly. It was one once per year when I was a kid. It was something you looked forward to each....Spring? When something is always available or overmarketed, it isn't as special, if that makes sense. Sorta like having Christmas every month or two
Not sure why this showed up in my feed, but I loved Wizard of Oz, these deleted scenes were good.
For anyone who loves this movie, and other MGM classics, I highly recommend a book called "The Wizard Of MGM", which is details the career of A.Arnold Gillespie, who was head of special effects at MGM for several decades. The book has detailed photos, story boards, script pages , etc, explaining and snowing how many of the effects in "The WIzard Of Oz' , "Forbidden Planet", San Francisco, Ben Hur, and dozens of other films were done. Mr GIllespie also recounts many 'behind the scenes' anecdotes around the making of the films he worked on. The book isn't cheap, but it's worth every penny! (Note: This is not an advertisement. I have no connection in any way to the sales of this book. I'm simply someone who's bought it, read it, and immensely enjoyed it)
For anyone interested, this footage was in the original rough cut of the film, better interspersed throughout (for instance, Dorothy would've seen those extra things out of the window, not just the audience), but children of the time found this scene too frightening in full, so it was trimmed down for its theatrical release.
Hope that helps.
Super🦸♀️ surprising 😯
I'd disagree that the cyclone fantasy was too "frightening" for children. There is nothing horrific about it since it is a funny use of optical effects. I was seven when I first saw this and wasn't "frightened" by it. The sequence was trimming down for better pacing.
A child of 7 in the last 20 years or so is very different from a child of 7 in 1939.
Fun fact: the scene at 2:25 was made by dropping a miniature of the house on the stage floor painted to look like the sky ,they shot it in slow motion, then they reversed the footage.
Oh my god I had been wondering how they did it for the past couple days, thank you so much. I had come up with many possible explanations but this one makes perfect sense. My ideas were something around “they tied a string on a mini replica of the house”.
Yup! Pretty simple, really. 🙂
Wow, amazing. Such a simple technique. Thanks for sharing 😊
ITS STILL TRIPPIN TO THIS DAY..
grandma and cow seems pretty passive ....gotta admire that
One of the most beautiful films in cinema 🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥. History 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😢😢. It all looked so real. The Wizard of Oz. Is a classic movies of all time time
Incredible Special Effects!
Only as an adult did I realize that the old woman in the rocking chair had a cat in her lap! 😮😅
I hear ya! It happens to me, too. I would see something in a movie I never noticed until YEARS later. In fact, you just now alerted it to me! 😂 Thanks!
And she waved‼️
Old woman was probably getting clawed pretty good.
I just now notice it too!!
I'm surprised Toto didn't try to chase after the cat this time 😂😂
The fellows in the rowboat get me every time! 😂
The cow is what gets me
Or the granny in the rocking chair. 1:06
In the 1950 radio version, Dorothy calls out to a Mr. Gallagher, who replies, "Howdy, Miss Dorothy! Kinda breezy, ain't it?"
Thank you for sharing this, I've loved this film ever since I can remember-it's TV debut was a year after my birth-so I remember what a huge deal the annual showings were.
I remember what a big deal it was when the movie was shown in color when people started getting colored TV's. That was the late 60s. Now I can watch the movie right now on my phone
Every Performance In The W. O. O. Was Tops ! As Was The Case With Many Movies In Those Days !
Brillant Special Effects!
Yesterday my great granddaughter and I had a perfect time at our local dinner theater watching a live performance of the Wizard of Oz, the music, singing, dancing and acting was spot on, and yes Toto too. I first saw the Wizard of Oz in a movie theater in 1957.
Sounds like fun! 😀
These are tornado tests that were filmed by the special fx team. They are not deleted scenes from the final film.
there are deleted now, as BBC TV in the 90s had a uncut version i can remember watching it, in fact did you know it was 2 Hours and 10 mins the running time on the uncut (On Networks), this days there are so much cuts and edit in fact the running time now is 1 Hour 40 Mins on a normal standard feature , that nearly 30 mins Edited/Cut.
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@@bleeuk did anybody recorded that on a vhs video tape back in the 1990's?
@@jeremiahmercks69 i wish i did record when i saw it in 1991, there shown a extended version only on TV for BBC (from the 70s to 90s), and ran up to 2 hours without Ad, no physical or streaming copies yet has the Extended or Fully Uncut Version. it may do just in time for the 100th year anniversary by 2039 watch this space,,,,
Oh yes, these scenes were in fact deleted from the movie! They were not just test scenes! You really need to use reliable, well researched facts! The 1938 original shooting script is one source and Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale and Terry the female Brindel Cairn Terrier who portrayed Toto scenes were deleted reacting to all of the images flying by Dorothy's bedroom window! Louis B. Mayer, Victor Fleming, and other Studio Executives felt it would be too terrifying for children to see the Gale Farmhouse scooped up inside the Cyclone/Tornado/Twister! Absurd Stuff and Nonsense! It was these adults who were afraid and terrified!
I really needed it, I'm glad you posted this video
I like in color🏳️🌈 better 😇
They did an excellent job on the tornado. It looks real af
Imagine that? With no AI.
Hamilton deserved an Oscar for this timeless role
Yet ...She Got Something Even Better than an Oscar... 💚 She Got & Has Immortality because of the Wicked Witch role!
Waaay much better than the ridiculous DEI Wicked movie will ever be...
The tornado getting that close to the house looks frightening
No one can out do 'Margaret' !😂😂❤❤❤, However, the Tornado 🌪 in the movie, are REAL in our time today !😮😮😮
Absolutely breathtaking.
As a four-year-old kid, this scene terrified me. I am 62 now and it still brings back the chills.
The REAL question is: Does your homeowners insurance cover you for houses blown into the air by a twister, if your house falls and kills a wicked witch any any subsequent lawsuits brought by munchkins for the destruction of their private property by your falling house.
The Munchkins wouldn't mind a bit, considering that it killed their dictator.
For the time period the best special affect ever. 75 yrs old and I still watch this movie every year
Brilliant Sound Effects!
This is footage that was not edited, so we see it all at one time, however NONE of this was DELETED.
Correct. This was test footage that was never edited or used in the film.
Actually some footage was, especially with the intercutting between the window view and Dorothy.
Can we all appreciate just how well those houses in Kansas were built? You can drop one from several thousand feet above the ground from a tornado and when it hits the ground it's still intact. 👍
Happy November 5, Tuesday, 2024! Outstanding Movie Footage!
Nowadays there’d be a Director’s Cut with another half-hour of footage cut from the theatrical release.
But back then, cut footage usually vanished into oblivion. Too bad.
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These scenes were never in a distributed or broadcast cut of the Wizard of Oz. And instead of arguing, just go Google please and save yourself the embarrassment. They were removed during the editing process before the original theatrical release.
Remember when you had to wait a year for this to run on tv? Halloween maybe?
In that crate with the chickens, the rooster and the turkey, there should have also been ducks and geese!
Two men in the rowboat is hilarious what a brilliant movie.
Technological mastery being the fact this was early 1900's
I don’t ever remember the shot of the tornado engulfing the house, that one should of stayed.
Brilliant Specia Effects!
They should’ve showed Professor Marvel‘s wagon and his horse named Sylvester flying past the window!
And like Miss Gulch on her bicycle turning into the Wicked Witch on her broomstick, Professor Marvel in his wagon should have turned into the Wizard in his balloon!
They should’ve left all of that in. Perhaps they felt the movie was too long; this was likely an easy segment to trim, editing-wise.
Great use of Music to stir your emotions!
OH HE'LL NO I'm having nightmares at night
@Callum Playz the music and witch
This is beautiful - I'm going to create a video movie watch party incorporating "raw footage use in the final edit." Thanks for the enlightenment.
Incredible Movie!
When I was a kid -- this was scary
To this day, the tornado is the most terrifying thing in motion picture history I've seen.
Happy Watching Video!
I think if I were Dorothy ... I'd have stayed in Munckin Land. Think about it. I've got my house, my furbaby. Tons of lovable neighbors and everything and everyone is in color. It landed right on the Yellow Brick Rd. 💛 I wouldn't have even bothered to walk down a long road. She could live under Glenda's protection with the ruby slippers as her armor. Me and Toto would be quite comfortable. I mean, damn, my furniture is in tact. Only lost a few dishes.
We didn't have a colored TV so we always went to Gramma's to see it...once a year...aid on the floor...great memories.
Im turning 69 next month and I still consider this movie one of the most incredible films ever produced. It ranks up there with Gone With The Wind and The Ten Commandments, as far as I'm concerned.
I completely get you. It's that realistic tornado that haunts me as an adult. Created from a simple nylon stocking and lined with chicken wire, bi- planes on set to create sound and wind, (or so I've read), the tornado and surrounding action still make me cringe. I sometimes wake up with nightmares and Wife asks me, "What's wrong, what was the dream about?!" Still too embarrassed--as a grown man to tell her the truth: "The tornado sequence from the Wizard of Oz". 😂😂
It must have been a great inconvenience in those Depression times for the woman whose stocking it was to have only one left. 😢
Miss Gulch on the bike changing into the witch along with her wicked laugh scared the daylights out if me as a child.....along with all the other witch scenes......When the annual broadcast was over for another yr....I breathed a huge sigh of relief...my brothers who were not scared like myself would tease me in front of friends....
Fantastic Reconstruction!
The CLASSIC of all classics.
Excellent Movie! Excellent Video!
How they got the tornado to look so realistic is super cool.
Perfect Movie Magic!
Excellent Reconstruction!
Never should have been Deleted!
Unused, not deleted.
Imagine how scared the audience in the theater was when the house falls down straight at them.
0:27 and that's the last time we saw Dorothy alive :D
She's never died.
@@MaskedMan66 lol.they said that because the shot shows the house getting obliterated
@@aquablue1252 Except that it doesn't; you'll have noticed (maybe) that the house is still standing at the end of the movie.
@@MaskedMan66
She lived, silly 😠
@@ShawnPickettPauley I said that she did.
I just realized the the view of the house falling down is what the Wicked Witch of the East saw.
Love wizard of Oz still watch it every yr
Stuff in the twister:
Tree
Trough
Bigger tree
Antenna/telegraph pole/fence?
Small house
Bike
Tree
Chicken coop
Grandma
Cow
Large house
Gate
Unrecognized thing above
Miniature shed
Big tree
Framework and platform
Men in a canoe
Huge crate
Another cow and chickens
Flying thing
Small scraps of debris
Large boards and shingles
The Wicked Witch of the West
Yeah bro there is a lotta stuff in that there tornado. like what could posibly go wrong ?
2:07 no that’s the east remember the legs were under the house
@@mrsnicky7836 but Miss Gulch was the wicked witch of the west...
@Gabriel The Wizard of Oz Fan 2021 no she didn’t as you most likely know the people in Kansas have Oz counterparts and Miss Gulch is portrayed by Margaret Hamilton and she also plays the wicked witch of the west
There’s no antenna. The story is supposed to taking place in the early 1900s and there was no radio or TV broadcasting at that time.
Many years ago I do remember seeing the waving grandmother in the rocking chair and the two men tipping their hats in the row boat.
Fun Fact:
In black and white and in sepia tone, dark colored objects and clothing will remain dark however light colored objects and clothing appear light, so the Witch of the West wears a black dress which would be dark in sepia tone but the witch in the twister has on a light colored dress. In other words the witch in the twister is really the Witch of the East, further evidence of this claim is that I found out that there is a poster of the twister scene colorized and the witch is wearing a silvery grey dress and has red Ruby Slippers on her feet. Ms Almira Gulch was the Wicked Witch of the East
It's a pity they cut or deleted many parts from the movie. Also a pity most of the scenes not included are no longer available so it can't be put together in it's entirety.
What people watching today don't understand is that half of all families still lived on a farm as late as the 1920s. Suburbs weren't really a thing, not as we understand them. You either lived in a city, small town, or on a farm.
Happy Spring 2024! Happy Easter 2024!
Fun fact: The Emerald City was inspired by Chicago after L. Frank Baum visited it during the World Fair.
As kids, we would pile in front of the TV every time this came on. Loved the flying monkeys!
While I've never been afraid of the Wicked Witch of the West, the tornado, on the other hand is a different story!
I was terrified by the flying monkeys. My older sisters would always tell me when they were coming so I could leave the living room.
I was scare shitless of tornadoes as a kid and this scene petrified me. Still does.
They must have cut the scene much later. When i was a kid the tornado scene was intact an was shown on tv. Still scary, as i come from a state that gets hit with these things.
What happened to the dog Toto in real life was a sin. The story goes....when he died in real life and they buried him....years later they built a highway over his grave. SAD...he was beloved by millions even to this day. T.
Happy Autumn 2024! Happy Harvest 2024! Happy Thanksgiving 2024!
That twister was pure nightmare fuel.
Seen all of that back in 1939...nothing new....
Isn’t that the witch of the East in the twister?
She’s killed when the farmhouse drops on her.
Yes. She's wearing a lighter outfit with a cape, and has striped socks on with the ruby slippers.
You can see her enter the eye of the twister too, which is where the house goes to enter Oz.
Margaret Hamilton was never credited for playing both roles, but this scene clearly shows a different witch. And that explains why Miss Gulch never shows up at the end.
I need to look close for those socks! Didn’t notice that.
@@PorcelainRequiem The outfit is still black, but it was brightly lit.
Correct.
The tornado scenes are really good. Gives me goosebumps watching them. I am guessing Ms Gulch did not survive the tornado since the movie had a happy ending.
Hamilton is in 13 Ghosts (1960) with a nod to her Oz character.
Dorothy really went to heaven...that was an EF100 for sure.
I saw this scene before at the show.....when I was a kid
Brillant Movie! Brillant Video!
The building lding that came crashing down at the end was shot in reverse with the barn going down away from the camera.
You watch this movie with your 4 yo kid and you can't peel her off you all day and night because she was so scared. Then 2 years later, she's 6 and watches the movie. "Nah, daddy not scared anymore. I'm a big girl now."
I remember those movie scenes
What was deleted? I remember most of this. It's been years since I've seen the movie.