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The Wizard of Oz
* Short Changed: Jerry Maren head munckin said the "little people" on the set were paid $50 per week for a 6-day work week, while Toto the dog received $125 per week.
* The "tornado" was a thirty-five foot long muslin stocking, photographed with miniatures of a Kansas farm and fields.
* The horses in Emerald City palace were colored with jelly to change there appearance. The scenes they were in had to be shot quickly before the horses started to lick it off.
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Rumours of the Munchkin actors' wild drunken orgies and other escapades are greatly exaggerated.
* Meinhardt Raabe of Munchkinland was at one time the shortest pilot in the U.S.
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