Saturday, November 12, 2011
The Wizard of Oz: Little People, Big Suicide
Alrighty then! Having scouted around amongst the hundreds of Wizard of Oz clips with dangling little people, I've found some pretty convincing truth that what we see in the background is a giant bird wandering around loose on the set, dipping its head to eat something and then stretching its wings out. The more you look at it, the more you see it.
The one I posted yesterday was just weird, as if they had somehow altered the image to look like something swinging back and forth. I think it had been doctored to match the urban/Hollywood myth about the suicidal munchkin.
I found another video that I will also post, in which we actually see the bird in another scene! I want to watch the whole movie again: probably there are lots of weird creatures wandering around to add atmosphere.
The whole thing is simply bizarre. What makes it seem even more like a hoax is the fact that the munchkin scenes were filmed at the end (since it was shot out of sequence, like almost all movies), so they wouldn't be hangin' around the set for this number.
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