Don’t imagine that everything you see in a movie “reflects” reality - the director or a camera guy might have said “Boring, it doesn’t pop! Spray a little glycerine on those leaves!”.
Dan
Tuna is a fish and a plant.
Okay, but it’s an artificial stage with painted backdrops and under the tremendous lights they had to use for early Technicolor. MGM used 150 36-inch arc lamps for the production, and had to borrow lights from other studios. Temperatures on the sound stages sometimes reached 100 degrees F. Real leaves would wither under such conditions and a spritz of glycerine would not help. Plus, the sets were still standing from early tests having Dorothy as blonde.
A hundred degrees…huh…talent must have gotten awful sweaty. Prob no roof fans in that era to keep the ground zone cooler. The corn could have been switched out (we did), or it may have been artificial. Or something else. In any case…?
Dan
And I thought this thread was revived to mention that the corn had just died…
The talent was known to faint and many complained about eyestrain and permanent vision problems. As for the corn, again, in a huge, expensive production filled with artifice, why would you do that? Your production was modern and not a storybook one on painted sets. Regardless, there doesn’t seem to be much information out there so we might not get a definitive answer.
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Artificial foliage and silk flowers have been around for centuries.
Go to your local floral shop and look at how real they look.
The corn was created.
Stage decorators know many tricks to fool the eye. Some of their tricks are better than others.
I think W of O was probably meant to look fantastical. I mean look at the characters. Horses don’t change colors and Monkeys don’t fly either.
Willy Wonka was fantastical in the same way.
It’s a movie. Not real life.
Oops. Sorry
You’re likely wrong about them being real, but your smart-assed answer made me laugh. I’m very often a smart-ass.
Maybe that’s why I’m not liked by many. Or they could have other reasons.
If you go back to the Munchkin City scene, it sure looks like all the fake plants and flowers are made of plastic. They don’t look like metal, yet they’re majorly shiny. I’m trying to find videos of the scene in question, but having no luck so far.
must have been pulled for copyright violations in the last 2 years when I first posted this.
Yea, those carbon arcs must have been miserable to be around and there were a bunch. Here’s one, note the chimney.
