NFJ

[snopes]

Comment: I was really interested in the supposed hanging on the set of The Wizard of OZ after a cashier at Best Buy mentioned it while I was purchasing the DVD. I started looking through the video copy I have and saw the supposed hung man was a crane as this site confirms. I decided to look into the supposed death further and discovered a website that said that there was a hanging in the studio, a hairdresser who thought that the movie would flop. The website said that the sucide cannot be seen on film as it was in the catwalks, but I was wondering if there is any truth to someone hanging themselves in the studio.

[snopes]

I started looking through the video copy I have and saw the supposed hung man

You can't fool me -- there's no pirate in the Wizard of Oz!

- snopes

[snopes]

Comment: I am surprised that you are claiming that the hanging in the
Wizard of Oz was a bird! I saw it myself, and it was no bird. And the
explanations you give, seem like right out of the Roswell story. (A
weather balloon?!)

Many years ago, the rules around making a movie were different. I
remember Lucille Ball saying that due to production costs, sometimes the
actors couldn't even take a lunch during filming. As far as everybody
ignoring the hanging, they were probably told not to get on the set during
filming. People can be very easily controlled into letting go of their
common sense. (Talk to psycologists!) And if it was just a bird, why did
they bother to edit it out later???? Do you know that years later, they
were still putting out NEW reports about Roswell? Why did the government,
after many years, put out a new report explaining away Roswell? Why the
need to do it again?

This bird story bothers me in that I don't know if I can trust your
version of the truth on other stories!

[Karmyn]

So the 'crane' from The Wizard of Oz crashed at Roswell? Or a munchkin commited suicide with a bird at Roswell?
That's a lovely new conspiracy theory. I bet they were all zebras, too.

[snopes]

Comment: i was told that the munchkin hanging scene was right when dorothy
was walking down yellow brick road right after she left the munchkin
village. i lak the resources to see this far but could you add this as an
addendum if it si wrong but i could have sworn i saw someone hanging in a
tree as dorothy starts on her journey.

[snopes]

Comment: in the article about the munchkin hanging himself in the film the
wizard of oz you show a colored clip it was originally in black and white,
and the hanging was real but it was not on the ground, in the original
version (i dont think there arent many more out there) there is something
falling from the tree up high, in the clip you show that is obviously a
bird

[snopes]

Comment: I was told by my Dad that in the movie The Wizard of Oz (with
Judy Garner) that there is a scene in which supposedly you can see a man
hanging from a rope as if he had hung himself in the background. it's the
scene in which the Tin Man is dancing. But i have looked...and cant find
it. I was wondering if there is any truth behind this.

[Seaboe Muffinchucker]

Originally Posted by snopes

Comment: I was told by my Dad that in the movie The Wizard of Oz (with Judy Garner) that there is a scene in which supposedly you can see a man hanging from a rope as if he had hung himself in the background. it's the scene in which the Tin Man is dancing. But i have looked...and cant find it. I was wondering if there is any truth behind this.

Yes, there's as much truth to this as there is to the fact that Judy Garner starred in the Wizard of Oz.

Seaboe

[Canuckistan]

Originally Posted by Seaboe Muffinchucker

Yes, there's as much truth to this as there is to the fact that Judy Garner starred in the Wizard of Oz.

Judy Garner was one of my favourites as a kid. She could belt out "Somewhere Beyond The Coloured Thing" like no one else.

[Brad from Georgia]

Originally Posted by snopes

Comment: i was told that the munchkin hanging scene was right when dorothy
was walking down yellow brick road right after she left the munchkin
village. i lak the resources to see this far but could you add this as an
addendum if it si wrong but i could have sworn i saw someone hanging in a
tree as dorothy starts on her journey.

Not very likely, as the trees in that scene are just painted onto a flat backdrop. It would have to be an extremely flat Munchkin.....

[snopes]

Comment: I have heard about the infamous rumor of the munchkin hanging in
the woods, but now my friend says there is two hangings, the other hanging
is in the munchkin city when they get into the carrage with the mayor, you
can see in the middle left corner a munchkin swaying back and forth.

[Dr. Winston O'Boogie]

Where's teh outrage? Won't someone think of the munchkins?

[snopes]

Originally Posted by Dr. Winston O'Boogie

Where's teh outrage? Won't someone think of the munchkins?

Wake up, Ozmians!

[snopes]

Comment: Your forgot a particular rumor with the Wizard of Oz movie,
although it is not true that a munchkin hung himself onset. It is said
the producer of the movie hung himself in the background of the movie, now
this is acually true. If you watch the movie on VHS, because they edited
it out of the DVD version, watch it very closely and you will see
somewhere in the middle of the movie he is hanging in the background.
It's really creepy to watch but I had heard this rumor and rented the
movie and saw it for myself. Check it out!

[Brad from Georgia]

Let's not and say we did.

[RivkahChaya]

Mervyn LeRoy is credited as the producer of The Wizard of Oz, and he died in 1987 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mervyn_LeRoy. Samuel Goldwyn, who died in 1974 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Goldwyn, bought the rights originally from L. Frank Baum. Associate Producer Arthur Freed lived until 1973 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Freed.

Why is this thread Not For Jews?

[kit_n_caboodle]

Originally Posted by RivkahChaya

Why is this thread Not For Jews?

I thought it probably stood for Not For Jenn. Isn't the hanging munchkin a hanging munchkin of hers?

[robbiev]

Originally Posted by kit_n_caboodle

I thought it probably stood for Not For Jenn. Isn't the hanging munchkin a hanging munchkin of hers?

I thought it meant New F-in' Jersey.

[ButterscotchCat]

I was wondering what the acromyn for NFJ's was. Never crossed my mind that it is "Not for Jews". Holy Moly, there must be another one. I can't think of it. Wise snopester, Help!

[snopes]

Comment: The infamous "Hanging Munchkin Suicide" rumor is extremely
controvesial. There are two "alleged" "hanging" scenes in the film. One is
the (obviously a bird; false) scene after the "Tinman" part. The other is
during the munchkin scene, where the mayor of Munchkinland sings "she
really was most sincerely dead," and in the background of this scene, a
female munchkin is seen quite clearly swinging back and forth, as if
suspended on a rope. I have heard that she also wears a noose around
herneck, but whether this was part of her costume or not I'm not sure.


Please investigate this scene, because I have no idea whether it's true or
not, and it freaks my friends and I out. ALOT.