So did a little person really hang himself/herself on camera in The Wizard of Oz?

That’s the witch watching them in a distance. A witch watch.

Without a double.

Absolutely not, OP. It's a just prop. Don't know why this rumour has persisted for so long. I mean, I guess I can, it's really juicy. The human imagination is a scary thing.

Read the thousand threads on this and come back to us.

They need a disclaimer for future non triggered Gen Z watching

“No little people were harmed in the making of this film”

Yes, no one on set noticed at the time, it was caught on film and never edited out. Grow up!

debunked YEARS ago. Are you new to the internet, OP?

Jewish space lasers, OP?

It was Clara Blandick practicing for what she did 25 years later...the rope was a nuisance so she settled for the plastic bag.

You can see that Ray Bolger trips when he sees the dead body.

Sure, OP, there was a Munchkin swinging in the trees, but the show must go on! Amirite?

Hey, Judy was only lucid for so many hours. They had to go with what they filmed before the bennies began to wear off.

It was Judy's gay dad.

Mama hated those munchkinsh

R3- the official explanation was a peacock, not a prop, but it looks nothing like a peacock.

R6- Lots of things happen on set that no one catches, not even in editing room. It happens.

Now let's address the legend of the death screams allegedly sampled into Earth, Wind & Fire albums!

what area of the muddy blurred low resolution screen am I supposed to inspect?

R17

Are you thinking of “Love Rollercoaster” by Ohio Players?

I’m Moon the of Side Dark!

🫥

The most famous hung dwarf in history.

Did Mikey really kill himself by eating pop rocks and drinking Coke? That one made the rounds when I was young.

I never heard that story, but it is creepy looking swinging gently in the background.

R16 A dead body hanging on the set was overlooked. I see.

R18- Dead center, in the back, swinging back and forth

ok thanks. I see. yikes.

It looks like a sandbag counterbalanced to hold a curtain or drape.

anyhoo, computer says no.

Yes, R26 and they have s kept it in the film 85 years later. Why the hell not? There must have been dozens behind the camera who all somehow didn’t see a corpse.

Do you remember when Dr. Lecter was grossly offended when Miggs threw his semen at Agent Starling and then mysteriously persuaded Miggs that night to kill himself? Well, this was one of Judy's little tricks too.

This will freak out those little shits who come to watch this expecting family fun!

OK, cameras... roll 'em!

[quote]Well, this was one of Judy's little tricks too.

Not anymore..

Ta.

Munchkin: I'd really like to fuck you.

Judy: If you do, and I find out about it...

Munchkin kills himself.

Not this shit again.

I read that if you go to that soundstage now (it's a storage building today), the skeleton is still hanging by a rope!

[quote]You can see that Ray Bolger trips when he sees the dead body.

But Judy and Jack never break their stride. Troupers!

Dorothy never got over it, OP.

It’s a bird. They literally show them on the set.

Here are the wings.