In the original "The Wizard of Oz" movie, is it true that in one of the scenes a Munchkin can be scene hanging from a tree in the background?

CapainNemo

Snopes debunk this urban legend thusly: 1)The scene was filmed before the Munchkin scenes, so there would have been no munchkins on set. 2)If someone had hung themselves - be it a munchkin or a stagehand - someone at the time would have noticed (even if not instantly, they would have found a body), there is no way it would have made it into the film. http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/ozsuicide.asp There is a clip of the scene there. In my opinion it is a falling piece of scenery, a very active imagination is required to see a suicidal munchkin. May 25 09, 12:15 PM

ilikeguinness

Contrary to myth, there is not a body hanging off in the far distance in the woods at the end of the Tin Woodsman scene. That myth got started up because of the graininess and poor resolution of TV and VCR videotape viewings of the movie. There are a bunch of very large crane-type birds that are scattered all over the set in this scene; most of the time they’re enough in the background so they just vanish completely in low-resolution viewing. At the very end of the scene, one of them flaps its wings and that’s what causes the little flash of white that people have wildly mythologized as being a stuntman or Munchkin hanging from one of the trees in the far distance. Nor is it a technician who was momentarily caught on camera, either. If you see the thing on laserdisk or in a theater—especially in the newly restored version—it’s very clear what’s happening. http://www.scottfoglesong.com/oztrivia/oztrivia.htm May 25 09, 12:15 PM