Directed by Victor Fleming, starring Bert Lahr, Billie Burke, Frank Morgan, Jack Haley, Judy Garland, Margaret Hamilton, Ray Bolger (add more)
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In the scene where Dorothy gets to the crossroads right before she meets Scarecrow, the camera shows the field where Scarecrow should be, but he is not there until the camera shows the field again. [Although it seems that the camera never moves, these two shots are actually from completely different angles. (The two shots show two backgrounds that are not at all alike). This indicates that not showing the Scarecrow the first time is correct.]
When Dorothy is entering her house in Kansas at the peak of the tornado, she opens the screen door and it flies off the hinges and into the air but you can also see a hanging plant right in front of her ever so slightly swinging from side to side. The storm takes a door off its hinges but can't knock a hanging plant off its hook? [In a tornado, anything is likely. A roof blown off a house and a hay rake deposited by the wind onto the floor of an upstairs bedroom while not disturbing the made bed, furniture or anything in the room speaks to the fact that a tornado can knock a door off it's hinges but not disturb the hanging plant or nearby lighter in weight objects. It depends on how the energy (force) is concentrated and such acts (tornado) are even more likely to do something like this.]
The Witch of the West refers to the Jitterbug dance number omitted from the final film: "I've sent a little insect on ahead to take the fight out of them...." [True she does. But just because we don't see it does not mean it didn't happen.]
All three farmhands have dialog which alludes to their Oz characters : Hunk (Scarecrow), "Your head ain't made of straw, ya know." Zeke (Lion), "She ain't nothin' to be afraid of, have a little courage." Hickory (Tinman), "Someday they're gonna erect a statue after me." [That is way too obvious to be trivia. It's part of the movie, for everyone to notice.]
When they are leaving the Haunted Forest, you can see a crew member with a can creating fog. [Where? I've watched it over and over, and can not see any such thing, it must be something else.]
In the opening shot, Dorothy is kneeling on the road to comfort Toto. As she stands up, you can see that she has three wet spots on her dress-front. When she arrives in the farmyard, the spots are gone. [There's a time lapse and possibly enough time for the spots to have dried.]
After the flying monkeys fly off with Dorothy, the Lion and the Tinman hurry over to the disassembled Scarecrow, who says "First they tore my legs off and threw them over THERE". But the legs are right below his chest; the Tinman immediately grabs them without having to reach far. [The Scarecrow is in a state of high anxiety, and he is overwhelmed by what they did to him. Now he and the others are facing dire circumstances, so it is merely the character's error as to where his lower limbs are, not a film mistake.]
Corrected by Rikki
When the Munchkins come out onto the Yellow Brick Road, one of them comes out of a sewer hatch on the yellow bricks. A few minutes later, as Dorothy begins her journey, there is an overhead shot and another shot afterwards in which you can tell that this sewer hatch has disappeared. [It's clear from the movie that either Dorothy dreamed of Oz the whole time, or that Oz is a magical place (or both). Either scenario would allow for a disappering or hidden sewer.]
Corrected by Matty Blast
When the Scarecrow is dancing with Dorothy for the first time there is a shot where he flies into the air. When the Scarecrow lands you can see that there is an area on the yellow brick road that has been altered to make some of the dancing easier, like doing the splits. [The only scene where the scarecrow flies into the air was in a deleted scene. Deleted scenes are not valid mistakes.]
When the Scarecrow is singing, "If Only I Had A Brain", when he goes up into the air, you can clearly see the wires that are holding him up. This is not in the actual film, but on one of the DVD deleted scenes. [Deleted scenes are not valid.]
When the foursome is about to leave the poppy field, the scarecrow begins to dance before any singing begins, then stops, looks around, and starts dancing again. [The scarecrow always walks that way when they're getting ready to go somewhere together. It's just the way he moves. That was intentional.]
When Dorothy first meets Glinda in Munchkinland, and after all the songs, Glinda is telling her to go to the Wizard. She moves and hits her crown with her wand. It is easy to hear. [How is this a mistake? She didn't break character and neither did anybody else. This is more of a trivia entry than a mistake.]
When Dorothy and the Scarecrow first find the Tin Man, he tells Dorothy to bang on his chest. After the echoing bang, she points to Scarecrow as if to tell him it's his turn to speak before he says, "Wow, what an echo." [She wasn't pointing to the scarecrow. She was pointing to the beating like saying "listen to that" without actually saying it.]
During the march of the witch's guards, the guard playing the cymbals crashes them together at least four times, but there is no corresponding noise. [There are no guards playing cymbals. The only guards playing something, back by the gates, are playing drums. Which you can hear.]
Throughout the first Kansas sequence Aunt Em and Hickory make references to 'that contraption' which is the reason why, "They'll erect a statue to me one day." The explanation from this is from a cut scene where Hickory (Jack Haley) is trying to build a machine that will predict the weather. [This particular scene didn't really need to be in the film to make it fit. It answers the question to what the contraption was, but it's not a mistake the scene can flow just fine without the cut scene.]
The Lion's line "My life has been simply unbearable" comes out as "Mice life..." [I'm pretty sure this was intentional. As Bert Laur was a comedian and wanted to put in a certain way the lion talks. So therefore making "My life" come out as "mice life"]
In the scene where Dorothy is at the door to see the Wizard, the doorman's moustache is pointed upwards, but shortly afterwards it is pointing downwards. I believe it was changed to reflect the mood (upwards=smile, downwards=frown/sad). If I remember correctly, when it is downward, he is crying about having an Aunt Em, also. Still a mistake, but there's an explanation. [If this is the way a character is in Oz then it is not a mistake, even if it is quite odd, but remember there is a lot of odd stuff in Oz. Not a mistake though, if that's how the character is.]
How does the lion know about the Sphinx if he's lived all his life in the land of Oz and never is told about it by Dorothy? [How do you know Dorothy never told him about it? There's plenty of time they're together that we don't see them.]
When the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion are watching the guards marching around the witch's castle, the three guards who sneak up on them throw away their spears and attempt to subdue them in hand-to-hand combat. Why would anyone throw away a spear in a fight? [Because they've been ordered to capture them alive rather than stab them repeatedly?]
Corrected by Gary O'Reilly
When Dorothy first hears the Scarecrow and she doesn't know who is talking, the Scarecrow's mouth doesn't move for his first few lines. [Not really an audio problem. I'm sure it was written and directed that way. It seems pretty obvious.]
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