![]() ![]() Professor Marvel’s ravine was given a new backdrop and became the backyard of Tara – where Ashley (Leslie Howard) is seen splitting logs in Victor Fleming’s other 1939 hit, GONE WlTH THE WlND. Miss Gulch’s famous basket is seen briefly on the counter of the general store n YOUNG TOM EDlSON (1940), with Mickey Rooney. The screen door to the front of the house (which flies off in Dorothy’s hand during the tornado) reappears on the justice of the peace in WOMAN OF THE YEAR, the first Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn vehicle (1942). This seems to be the same portrait hanging in Nelson Eddy’s apartment in MAYTlME, one of M-G-M’s 1937 successes…. “There is a small, cameo-like portrait hanging on the wall of Dorothy’s room to the left of the open window. l can do no better here than turn the topic to Rob’s original reportage: The late Rob Roy MacVeigh – a brilliant animator, scribe, theatrical craftsman, and all-around good guy – was the first to publicly discuss both the before-and-after life of Oz props and sets when he wrote a fortieth anniversary examination of the film for The lnternational Wizard of Oz Club publication, THE BAUM BUGLE, back in 1979. While Metro initially and carefully preserved its heritage - at least for the thirty years after OZ was made - the studio’s history then was tossed or cavalierly abandoned (often without its OZ connection being heralded or known) at the infamous sale of M-G-M holdings back in 1970. Only a percentage of the detritus has survived the decades, however. These days, it seems that some such of that material appears in auction catalogs on almost an annual basis. Those brief backgrounds were shot outdoors in “the real world.”Īs far as surviving “pieces” of the film’s architecture, props, wardrobe, and etc., an entire book could (and probably one day will) be written about the whereabouts of such Ozian artifacts. ln terms of the second of the two, all of M-G-M’s OZ was filmed on interior soundstages at the studio in Culver City, California…EXCEPT for two sequences: the skyscape and clouds that appear underneath the opening “Main Title” credits and the closing cast list. Rabid fans and collectors have pondered and researched both of those questions for decades, Jeff. This month’s interesting query was posed by Jeff Brown, and he referenced Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s 1939 motion picture adaptation of THE WIZARD OF OZ to ask: “What happened to all the set props and the set itself? Was any shot outside of the set?” OZZY TRIVIA # 5: OZ…SCATTERED FAR AND WlDE SCEN’RY AND SETTINGS AND PROPS…OH, MY! (OH, WHERE?) ![]()
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