![]() ![]() There were greensmen, in charge of the trees and plants that were components of the scenery. There were make-up people (at least one each for every principal actor involved), hairdressers, and costume adjuncts. There were additional technicians who oversaw lighting and sound, and others who monitored the playback machine for the prerecorded vocal and orchestral track of the song in this specific scene under discussion. That cinematographer – in this case, Harold Rosson – was actively THERE, with additional cameramen in place, as well manipulating the heavy, cumbersome equipment required for early three-strip Technicolor filming often required a multi-person effort.Ĭontinuing: Alongside or behind the camera, one also would find a director and, in the case of a musical like OZ, a choreographer - plus their assistants. In other words, a Metro cameraman didn’t simply position a huge Technicolor machine on a bend in The Yellow Brick Road, put it on automatic, and desert the set in hopes that the lens MIGHT capture the image of a little Kansas girl, her dog, a Scarecrow, and a Tin Woodman as they came singing, dancing, and sauntering by. Filming a scene in a studio as preeminent as MGM – and for a project as complex, expensive, and top-of-the-line as OZ – required a massive technical crew at-hand and on hand. Secondly, let’s clarify one thing right at the top. No – anything skeevy (!) about what I’m about to write would be aimed toward those folks out there who insist the fiction is fact…or those worthy souls who ignore all the tenets of common sense and continue to perpetuate the rumor!įirst off, the scene under discussion is that which takes place during the apple orchard/”If I Only Had a Heart”/Wicked-Witch-on-the-Roof segment of the movie - with the Tin Woodman’s cottage in the background. I want to begin by saying that if some of my response here seems sassy or dismissive, those tones are definitely NOT directed toward the person who posted this topic it seems to be a very genuine request for information, and I’m always grateful for the opportunity to try to provide that. Was there really a suicide on the set? Everyone talks about mysterious hanging. ![]() That being said, however, it also may very well be the most preposterous of any trivia inquiry ever asked about any movie ever made…! It’s not surprising that this query has popped up here it’s one of the most frequently-raised questions about Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s 1939 motion picture production of THE WIZARD OF OZ. OZZY TRIVIA # 4: SOMETIMES A BIRD IS JUST A BIRD…. ![]()
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