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xmoviegrlx
11-28-2002, 11:17 PM
me and my friends came across wizard of oz on tv andthey said a miget /dwarf/ little person hung himself during the filming of the movie and u can see the guy hanging from a tree somewhere in the movie. I heard it from alot a ppl its true. if anyone has any info on this tell me because its kind of misterious you know, or if it is a joke. :confused:
dh1989
11-28-2002, 11:28 PM
I doubt its true. They would have painted it over and I doubt they would film with a hung man in the background, someone would've noticed. Its an urban legend, in my opinion.
FeydRautha
11-28-2002, 11:53 PM
This is a very popular urban myth about the Wizard of Oz, and it's not true. Sometimes in the story it's one of the dwarves, in others it's the son of one of the technicians on the crew.

If you ever visited a working film set during shooting, you'd see there's so much activity going on and so much riding on getting the shot right (filming's an expensive business), the entire cast and crew would have to have been blind not to notice a corpse hanging in the background.
VicVega
11-29-2002, 08:03 AM
Read about it here:

http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/ozsuicid.htm
edonline
11-29-2002, 11:31 AM
As someone once said regarding the "hanging man" inThe Wizard Of Oz (it wasn't a munchkin, supposedly a stangehand had hung himself and he was discovered too late into filiming to edit him out of the scene), don't you think the studios pay people to notice things like that?
APzombie
11-29-2002, 12:06 PM
I Hated this legend...

its a bird, not a munchkin.
James Logan
11-29-2002, 12:12 PM
Originally posted by FeydRautha
This is a very popular urban myth about the Wizard of Oz

THE WIZARD OF OZ has urban legends?

Freaky. :D
Pootie
11-29-2002, 01:49 PM
yeah its a bird
edonline
11-29-2002, 02:13 PM
Originally posted by James Logan
THE WIZARD OF OZ has urban legends?

Freaky. :D

Don't tell me you've never heard the one about The Wizard of Oz and Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon...
James Logan
11-29-2002, 02:23 PM
Originally posted by edonline
Don't tell me you've never heard the one about The Wizard of Oz and Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon...

Actually...I didn't. Sounds interesting though. What's it about?
bankholdup
11-29-2002, 02:57 PM
If I remember correctly...

The Floyd/Oz connection is that if you play 'Dark Side Of The Moon' while watching (i think) the laserdisc version of Oz, it fits perfectly..I forget. My brother tried it once but failed miserably.
Mick
11-29-2002, 02:59 PM
Originally posted by James Logan
Actually...I didn't. Sounds interesting though. What's it about?

If you start playing the album at the right time, just as one of the logos appear or something, the lyrics and the events on-screen are similar. Anyone here actually tried it?
James Logan
11-29-2002, 03:19 PM
Thanks for the explanations, guys. I'd be curious to know if anyone tried that and if it actually worked...
chandler_bing905
11-29-2002, 04:34 PM
hey

yeah i tried it once and it does work pretty good, only for about the first half of the movie. When dorthies house lands, it fits great. the cha-chings in the song moeny start to soudn adn then the song like kicks in as everything changes to color, it's prettttttttty nifty!

but then a commerical came on, and ruined everything lol. but hey, it's still pretty cool, woulda have been better if i was high, but these things happen.
NuclearMisfit
11-29-2002, 05:27 PM
you can download a copy of the wizard of oz with pink floyds darkside of the moon edited in on Kazaa.
FeydRautha
11-29-2002, 08:10 PM
Originally posted by James Logan
THE WIZARD OF OZ has urban legends?

Freaky. :D

If you go to the Urban Legend website snopes.com and visit their Movie section, they've got a whole bunch of urban legends attributed to this film.

One that isn't there that I heard, though, was that the male "munchkins" were a pretty randy bunch and used to hit on Judy Garland at every given opportunity, even going to far as to pinch her bottom and make rude comments to make her blush. I don't know how true this is, but I wouldn't put it past them to behave like that.
FeverDog420
11-30-2002, 02:00 AM
Originally posted by Mick
If you start playing the album at the right time, just as one of the logos appear or something, the lyrics and the events on-screen are similar. Anyone here actually tried it?

The synchronicity is detailed here (http://www.rareexception.com/Garden/Floyd/Floyd.php).

The video-savvy father of a friend made me a copy of the movie with the music dubbed over it.