Well if Ray Bolger was the tin man he could have inhaled the tin man makeup and his lungs would have failed and budy epsin was replaced with jack haley but Jack haley might have been the scarecrow. But it just wouldn't have been the same without Ray Bolger
@@ashley_said_what016 Buddy Ebsen, not "Epsin," and it only affected him the way it did because he had a congenital bronchial condition. If Ray had worn the make-up, he would have needed a bit of leave, but he'd probably have been all right.
That's why Roy and his wife did after he was told that he was going to be the tin man. Lol they tag teamed and told the higher ups at MGM and told them that he should be scarecrow not tin man. Lol they caved and look at what we got. It was perfect if you ask me. His dance style just fits more with scarecrow than tin man.
In my opinion, that scene was awesome, and I wish they would have left it in the actual movie... but on the other hand, it's really a treat to see a surprise cut-out scene from an iconic movie that came out exactly 70 years ago.
Watching this was both eerie and mind-blowingly great at the same time. I thought I knew this movie inside and out having seen it so many times and then THIS! It was like a major bonus to what I remembered from the "original" movie. Hard to explain ... like going through your house which you think you know so well only to find a secret room filled with something beautiful which had been there all the while. Thank you so much for posting this!
My late grandfather always reminded me of the Scarecrow. The son of a farmer raised in the Great Depression; he even resembled Ray Bolger in appearance. I told him that when he was alive and he just chuckled. But now, nearly twenty years after his passing, whenever I see Dorothy say “I’ll miss you most of all,” it breaks my heart. I miss him very much.
@@Sarah-zr1nj Reading that just moved me to tears Sarah. You'll always have those amazing memories of him because you do have a brain, and a heart, and the courage to share that sweet story with us too :)
Originally Warner Brothers was going to restore this scene back into the film when they rereleased the film in theaters for its 60th anniversary in 1998. But the idea was scrapped at last minute
@Sheetza What I said is correct, as is plain to anyone who watches the movie. The dance sequence (choreographed by Busby Berkeley himself) which runs here from 0:59 to 3:44, was trimmed out when the film was streamlined before its official release. An alternate conclusion to the song was shot, which is what you see in the theatrical release.
Ray Bolger, the guy who played the Scarecrow, was furious when this scene was cut. And I can't blame him. This was a great dance number. Ray was a really great dancer.
Tyler Nersinger If he was still alive again and he watched wizard of oz again, he would be happy to see that the scene actually got restored into the film
I love this longer version because it shows Ray Bolger's amazing wiggly dance style. I feel he was so underrated as a dancer. He was just as good as Astair & Gene.
To the people who think he's flying, I really don't think he is. I think it's supposed to be more like a really high jump. As for the pumpkin part, I guess it was just supposed to have knocked him really high into the air.
+Chris And this scene shows how intelligent the scarecrow was.(Oz didn't give him what he already had] The crows didn't expect him to build up momentum and jump that far, he out smarted them.
I think the part with the large pumpkin was actually shown in reverse. In reality, he was lowered onto the large pumpkin FIRST, but the footage gives the illusion that the pumpkin elevated him into the air.
I love Dorthy & Scarecrow together, they belong together I think. What a perfect performance, I love his voice, his silly comedic like nature, he did this splendidly. Aww why didn't they keep this, so sad!
@@MaskedMan66 Pick on people who spell dat for that, and boy for boyz or u for you. So we can have young men of 10 hold a rifle and take lessons for shooting, for hunting and now schools, but not have a 10 year old have sex...even though a woman's body gets their period around 10? Why would they get their periods that age then...what for? We can have 10 year olds have top of the line security phones were you have apps that can make you look older for fake ID's, or tracking on it...and 1 or two year olds have phones now..and you don't think that's crazy and messed up? We have trans now and I have to be careful with my wording and that's not messed up? Besides who's to say in the land of Oz that the scarecrow wasn't her age but just looked older? The older script had that. I have seen kids today, they act way older and know more and yet dumb at the same time because all they want is their phone and the newest remake. Judy was 17 or so and the scarecrow was maybe that age in real life so what does it matter. Only in the book she is 10. If they had used Shirley then it wouldn't have worked in society laws. But people hate cops now a days and blame them for mis deeds, and our society is already messed up and people throw torches for black racism when yet they should believe in reverse racism, and woman not voting until a certain time, we can have all that , but when it comes to 10 years old , that's to young? Nobody dare questions weed , they think I'm out of my silly little mind that isn't not bad it's a miracle drug that gets you high, when yet it's not better for a child, yet a grown man will have the same effects and yet for the man it's still the best thing ever?
@@tammie1078 Dorothy's age isn't given in the book, but shes generally believed to be about six. The Scarecrow is three days old when Dorothy meets him, but is functionally an adult. As for Judy Garland and Ray Bolger, she was 16 and he was 34. None of anything else you said is relevant.
@@MaskedMan66 Your thinking to heavily into this. And you were picking on me on purpose. Who says he's an adult? What you never seen a tall child, a guy in a sense? Everything I said actually is, because all those other things are bad too but society doesn't beat it down. I'm pretty sure the age of consent is 16 now, given what state your in. He is alive, so though a scarecrow, he is practically human in this world but it does not say age. This is Oz we are talking about, for goodness sake, they promote a child killing a wicked witch with her friends...which sounds like an assignation as the wizard ask them to do it. I get it he was trying to make the land a safer place, but you don't ask a child that. In Return to Oz, you have the lady with the removeable heads...that's so dahmr but here it is in a children story. So if you wanna talk about questionable motives from me, if he were alive, ask Baum why he would write that in , when he said he didn't want to scare kids, but in the story it says the tinman twirls his ax in a threating manner, so his feelings on his writing and how he writes it is abit contradictory. I love his work and him as a writer but yeah. It('s ok for a 7 year old to hold a gun even if self defense), it's ok for a grown man or women to do weed, as if if to say it's perfectly acceptable that adults get the right and excuse to mess up their bodies, but for children they can't. Destroy a person's life with memes that are designed and created for bullying and havoc. Now thanks to you, where my comment was three years ago was innocent, is now tarnished and I'm going to look I'm the monster.
@@tammie1078 You are writing essays, and you say that I'M "thinking to (sic) heavily into this??" The Scarecrow is a functional adult, indwelt by the life force of a century-dead subterranean Emperor (read "The Royal Book of Oz" by Ruth Plumly Thompson).
It's funny how most people, like us may have started out as strange-looking ducklings on the outside, but inside, they somehow, suddenly became almost, nearly, perfect in each and every way.
To say that Ray Bolger was a dancer was something of an understatement! Obviously, judging by this segment, he was extremely good. There are some good dance sequences with him in The Harvey Girls and in Babes in Toyland as well.
Dude, Wizard of Oz was one of the best movies ever. Saw it when I was little, and it's been a long time. Scarecrow is like my favorite character. I remembered this song from the GM commercial. Mmmm, nostalgia.
The producers thought it, took up too much time, and they were looking to delete about 15 minutes from the nearly two-hour rough cut to get it down to a more reasonable running time (since in 1939, even "important" films rarely ran more than 90 minutes).
@@ChuckD79 There was only one producer, and he railed against the cuts, which were ordered by the suits. And you're forgetting that _Gone With the Wind_ was four hours long.
@@MaskedMan66 I know GWtW was close to 4 hours, but that was a rare exception...also, was referring to the production team as a whole, but yes, they were ultimately carrying out orders by MGM execs in deciding what to cut.
It's cute, but probably the thinking was that it doesn't really move the story forward and the choreography repeats. Expensive decision as that number wasn't cheap to shoot.
Gosh I hate it when I trip and I do the splits then use only leg strength to get out of it then do the splits again then get out of it again then bounce between 2 fences before crashing into another and repeating those bounces backwards
I think that they should just put this permanently back into the film. They have it, and it's easily editable into the film since it was meant to be there. Just like Ray Bolger once said, it's nice to spend a little more time along the yellow brick road.
Warner Bros. considered editing this sequence back into the film for its 60th anniversary theatrical reissue in 1998 (even going so far as to digitally "erase" the visible wires lifting the Scarecrow up in that one part), but ultimately decided against it, not wanting to tamper with a timeless classic.
Congress can't dictate! The United States of America is a Democracy! Congress is supposed to defend, respect and uphold democracy, not undermine it! Furthermore, the extended dance sequence was deleted in July of 1939! It wasn't discovered until 1973! And it was first shown in the 1985 movie That's Dancing!
Rainbowfacedgirl 85 unfortunately the footage from The Jitterbug was destroyed so there's no way they could put that scene back in. Originally Warner Brothers was going to put the Scarecrows dance scene back into the movie when they rereleased the film in theaters for it's 60th anniversary in 1998 but they later changed their minds and decided not to do that
The only way to restore "The Jitterbug" would be to re-stage it on a duplicate of the sound stage with lookalike performers and then do CGI masks to complete the picture. The soundtrack survives, so they could work with that.
I’m happy for restoring this, but the jitterbug scene, I think it’s good it was cut; the MGM managers thought the song would date the film due to its jazzy style and take away its timeless feel, and I think they were right.
@@Grandmaster_Dragonborn That really wasn't a concern, especially considering what some people at that time considered the very dated vaudevillian nature of some of the comedy.
I love this movie. This was my favorite movie as a kid. I wished they added this in the movie. I had never seen this until just now and I absolutely loved it and wished they had this as part of the movie.
The Scarecrow's Extended Dance Number was choregraphed by Busby Berkley! Bobby Connolly Choregraphed all of the other Dance Numbers in the Movie! This should never have been deleted! None of the deleted original footage, deleted original dialogue, deleted original soundtrack, deleted original song and dance numbers should have been cut from the movie! The1939 MGM Classic Fantasy Musical Movie, The Wizard of Oz should have run its full 140 minutes and not carelessly, ruthlessly and stupidly cut down to 101 minutes!
One of my local cinemas showed a print circa 1990 which included this extended version of the dance sequence. I was blown away. I thought that I had just failed to appreciate Ray Bolger’s skills the first couple dozen times I’d seen the film.
OMG! Tahnk you very much for sharing this! I don't believe they deleted this wonderful scene from the movie, I bet the scarecrow is the fav character of most people and this was so cool!
I wonder why this deleted scene survived, but the other deleted scenes (Jitterbug, reprises of Over The Rainbow and Ding Dong The Witch is Dead, and the wind machine scene) are lost. If they could save this scene, why couldn't they save the others?
@@JBrooksNYS It is spelled Dorothy! Judy Garland is 15 portraying an 11-year-old Dorothy Gale! Hunk, the Farmhand and Roy Bolger were both 34 at the time! The writers who suggested this in a one-page outline never worked on the screenplay! I n fact this was only suggested before any of the songs were pre-recorded or the film went into production!
Its a urban legend. Its just a a big bird in the background that wasnt used in the movie. Some of yall already know this but love to keep it myth going
Thank goodness the editors at least had the sense to preserving this footage, unlike the Jitterbug and the reprises of Over the Rainbow and Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead. Thumbs up if you agree.
I have to admit that this scene is a bit long and silly, especially with all the flying around and showing him bounce off the fences again in reverse, but it's very well made nonetheless. I like the extra verse of the song at the end; it adds to that whole idea that Dorothy has a crush on the Scarecrow's character back in Kansas. :)
i was watching it these days and always found it weird how much scarecrow seemed to care for dorothy, sometimes ,more than the others. they were closer and looked at each other in a different way … then i found out that hunk was going to be dorothy's love interest, originally !!that is very bonkers, the more u know :)
It is not too long or silly or nothingness! Dorothy did not have a crush on Hunk back in Kansas! 15-year-old Judy Garland was portraying an 11-year-old Dorothy Gale! Hunk, the farmhand and Ray Bolger were both 34 years old at the time! It was a platonic brother and sister friendship! Dorothy Loved Toto the most besides Auntie Em and Uncle Henry! She loved Hickory and Zeke the farmlands also! Dorothy just says to the Scarecrow that she is going to miss him most of all because she met him first on the yellow brick road, of the three companions! She even tells him he better not join her because she has a witch mad at her! He begs her to take him with her! Judy Garland was an Adorable, Very Pretty Girl! Ray Bolger and Margaret Hamilton were not related at all! But they look like they could be brother and sister! I am not being unkind, but Ray Bolger, Jack Haley and Bert Lahr were Character actors! Ray Bolger as the Scarecrow was better looking than Ray Bolger or Hunk! Jack Haley was the best looking of the three! Billie Burke who portrayed Glinda, the Good Witch of the North was beautiful! She runs away from home to save Toto! The Creepy, Lecherous, and Pedophilia is child molestation, abuse and a mental illness! The whole idea is disgusting!
Imagine choreographing this scene for months just to get it right, you film maybe 3 weeks or more just to be perfect and after all that hard work, it’s left on the cutting room floor :(
It seems that for 1939 they used some great special effects that must have cost quite a bit for the production, and they didn't use it, which is both a waste and a shame. Thanks for posting!
I have no idea why I've seen this scene before, but as a kid I remember watching the edited version of the movie and asking my mother "where's the part where he trips on a pumpkin?" she had no idea what I was talking about and I thought I had imagined the whole thing until right now.
One Time in 3rd grade k watched this movie and i remember i saw a part where they aré out in the porch of the emerald city waiting on what to do next and i remember the scRecrow holding the broom too and i asked fans about that scene and everyone doesnt know what i am talking about either so i have the same question didd i just imagined that scene?
@@elizabethmarielunacordoba9956 They did film a really elaborate "Triumphal Return" scene in the Emerald City, but Dorothy was carrying the broom there, and sadly the whole sequence was cut before the movie's official release; only preview audiences ever saw it. :-(
What drives me crazy about this scene is that it was originally not deleted until 1973 when they made more room to sell commercial time. This scene is what made Ray Bolger famous. I wish they would put it back in and restore the film to its original form.
This dance was never shown in context with the film. It was deleted in 1939 after the first preview, along with many lines of dialogue, The Jitterbug, the Triumphant Return number after they kill the witch, and many other bits and pieces, in order to bring the running time down from 2 hours to 100 minutes. From what I understand, the studio/distributors discussed reinstating the dance number as far back as 1989 on the film's 50th anniversary, but they decided to leave the movie intact as it is and just include it as an extra. However, I do recall the 1970s broadcasts having a lot of other bits cut from the film that should never have been touched, like parts of the cyclone, the long tracking shot of Munchkinland, the establishing shot of the poppy field, and many other things. . .it was butchered, and it didn't go unnoticed by us kids that grew up watching it year after year! :-)
This scene was never in the finished film. MGM cut the dance at last minute just before the films release because they thought the film was running too long
Actually Ray Bolger had appeared in films before this and on stage,this form of dancing was his trademark and he was known before he became the scarecrow.
It was discovered in 1973. The extended Scarecrow Dance Number choregraphed by Busby Berkeley was deleted from the movie in July of 1939 It was introduced in the 1985 theatrical documentary movie That's Dancing! All of the other dance numbers in the movie were choregraphed by Bobby Connolly!
Fuck me it's funny when you imagine this as scarecrow and batman lmfao. In fact you should just go ahead and rename this as Batman And Scarecrow Da Movie. Go on, I dare you hahaha
It's probably a Hammond organ (invented in 1935) and a similar effect was used in the Bewitched TV show. If you get the vibrato disc spinning fast and play some upper register chords, there you have it!
Dude... I hear you, but its supposed to be for the sophisticated, operatic ear. It was indispensable to his character development and it was good English comic opera. Put the DVD in and you'll agree that his unique performance of those lyrics was priceless.
I think this deleted footage from this scene is maybe the only footage that was cut that still exists. In many of the other deleted scenes only the audio,still photos or home movies exist.
Jeff Hietala Yeah it is a shame. Scenes like the jitterbug scene would have been fun to watch. But tbh, I'm pretty greatfull that bits and pieces still survived so that we still get an idea of what the deleted scenes looked like.
+MediaLover194 I love this but have to agree. I think this is great but don't think it would have made a big difference overall in the success of the movie
+MediaLover194 I concur, sometimes I watch a deleted scene and have to ask myself why it was removed, here on the other hand it was clearly removed for pacing and I feel that was the right choice.
As nice as it would have been to have an extended scarecrow dance, I see why they cut it. The Scarecrow’s leap into the field looked far too unconvincing, and you could easily tell when he goes back up the hill bumping into the fences that it is just reversed footage from when he was going down.
Because this movie has been designated as a "classic", there should be no deletions of things on film. That is how it works with the classifications of such movies.
No, "Wicked" contradicts everything. That's why it's off in its own little world which will thankfully never intersect with any legitimate version of Oz.
Wicked was first a novel published in 1997 and then made into a Broadway play! Lyman Frank Baum's Classic Children's Book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with illustrations by W. W. Denslow was published in 1900, which is what the 1939 MGM Classic Fantasy Musical Movie, The Wizard of Oz was adapted from and based on! Wicked is a whole different animal! You really need to visit your Free Local Public Library or Film Library or Local Barnes and Knoble Book Store or Thrift Books store and read the books about The Making of The Wizard of Oz! Educate Yourself! Read Reliable Well-Researched Material!
Yeah I loved 🥰 it. I was laughing and smiling all the way through it. I Wish that they kept in the movie. I always through that the scarecrow scene was too short.
