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Subject: Re: The Wizard Of Oz
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Date: Sun, 9-Oct-83 21:07:13 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct  9 21:07:13 1983
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All right, as long as we're on this subject...

Remember the scene where the wicked witch sends her wicked
flying monkeys out to attack Dorothy et al?  She says something
to the effect of, "I've sent something ahead of you to soften
them up a bit!"  Ever wonder what that something was?

Scene shifts to the forest where our motely crew are ready
to engage the wicked witch.  They're armed.  The tin man has
a large bug spray can, and the lion has a net, and so forth.
In the next scene the monkeys fly away with Dorothy to the
witch's castle.  Now.  What happened to the bug spray can?
The net?  And so forth?

The 'something' that the witch sent ahead was a giant spider.  The
scene where Dorothy and her friends battle the spider (and subsequently
loose their weapons) was cut entirely from the movie.  Apparently
someone thought that this scene was far to gruesome and frightening
to show a 1930s audience.

Oh, and I almost forgot....

In some of the scenes (typically the wicked witch's castle) you
may notice that the wicked witch (Margaret Hamilton) is wearing
a green glove, the length of her forearm.  Hmmmm... "what's
that doing there?" you might ask.

Recall how the big W-cubed de-materialized from Munchkinland?
They quickly dropped her from the stage through a trap door
while flames and smoke covered up her exit.  Someone didn't
drop her soon enough and a good deal of her left forearm was
seriously burned.  At this point I believe they were ready to
can the film.  Margaret Hamilton spent quite a while in the
hospital.  What makes this even worse is that they ALREADY
HAD perfectly fine footage of this scene.  She was burned
while they filmed the scene a second time for redundancy.
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