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.
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.
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.
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 :)
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.
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
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!
@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.
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.
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 :(
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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 can just imagine how the performers felt to see so much of their performance cut after all the work they'd put into it! But the final cut emphasized the scarecrow's wobbliness more than Ray Bolger's athleticism.
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 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. :-(
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
This scene is very remenescent of the tin man's dance which wasn't scrapped. The tin man starts dancing with no dialogue and dorothy and the scarecrow are left to do some miming
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 can't fathom why MGM why deleted t such a large part of this classic song and dance number! I can't fathom why MGM cut any of the scenes from this beloved, excellent, fantastic, magnificent, wonderful classic MGM 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz! A huge mistake! The 1939 MGM classic movie The Wizard of Oz is my absolute favorite movie ever! I own this on videotape, Laser Disc, DVD and Blue Ray! I love Judy Garland! I love everything about this movie! I love Terry the female Cairn Terrier who portrayed Toto in this classic movie! This movie is perfectly cast! Thank you for posting and sharing this! This is pure movie magic! I love this! I am so glad they found this number!
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.
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 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 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!
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.
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.
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!
This is great. When my son was in 2nd grade in Orange County Calif., he played the Scarecrow in a Little Theater production of Wizard of Oz. He told the director they could not sing “Follow the Yellow Brick Road” because there wasn’t one. She had the set people paint one on the stage. Fun memory.
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!
2:30 those splits were hella impressive. This whole video is further proof that no one else could’ve played the scarecrow better than Ray Bolger
It’s crazy to think he was almost the Tin Man 😭
I think this is the only deleted scene that still has surviving footage
SuperJackster01 Nope, the footage for jitterbug exists, it's just not the original footage
LeviathanJPTV only in the form of Harold Arlen’s home movies.
This scene is the only one that has the footage that was meant to be seen.
SuperJackster01 helllo
There are a few more tidbits that can be found in one of the early trailers for the movie.
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.
Yeah… it’s totally charming, and deepens character.
This is proof no one is a better scarecrow than ray bolger
And to think that he was originally going to play the Tin man!
Two words" Michael Jackson
I'm sure that Ray would agree with you.
Yosef Demby Michael was good in The Wiz but, Roy is the better Scarecrow.
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.
They wanted him to be the tin man. Glad he stood up for himself
Yeah, he's a lot better as the Scarecrow.
Though, what if they made another movie but they switched roles?
Marcello Antonio me too!! I can’t see anybody else playing The Scarecrow!
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.
Judy is just pure perfection. Even without dialogue I can’t help but be drawn to her natural talent and charisma.
Everyone was, which puts the lie to all the stories about her being hated, abused, harassed, starved, beaten, raped, etc. etc. etc.
I wish this extended number was in the film. Ray Bolger was just right for the scarecrow and this routine demonstrates this further.
Ray Bolger just warms my heart in this movie. God, Scarecrow would be the most loyal, best friend you could ever have
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 :)
"Gosh it would be awful pleasin' to reason out the reason, for things I can't explain."
Love that Line! Wish they kept that in the Final Cut.
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.
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
I wish they had.
Same Here Buddy
SuperJackster01 at least they included it as bonus material on the DVD release.
I hopefully they’ll Re-add it for the 80th anniversary, but give you the option to have the deleted scene or not
I saw the 60th anniversary re-release at a local theater and this scene was included.
Like, was there gravity in 1939...
😂
+Danny B they used fishing line to make ray fly because you could not see fishing line in technicolor
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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!
This is actually an extended version of the scene shown in the movie rather than a deleted scene.
It's a deleted part of the scene, however.
You are correct Michael, maskedman66 is wrong
@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.
@@22stunt45 how is MaskedMan66 wrong?? It is a cut part from the scene!
It's a extended version that was deleted or at least left out from the movie, so it is a deleted extended scene
An unforgettable movie! Growing up it was a movie that played on TV that the entire family watched together.
What a friggin legend. I wish they left this masterpiece in the movie. RAY IS JUST SO GOOD! That splits part really blew me away
The use of classic mime here is lovely. It promotes chemistry between Dorothy and the Scarecrow. Really good stuff!
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.
He was highly sought after for his dancing back in the day.
Better than Ginger Rogers!
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 :(
This scene was apparently cut from the film at the very last minute
@@superjackster0165yep, because they feared the film would "run too long".
Ray Bolger was very upset about it and left MGM and went back to New York to Broadway because they deleted the scene!
Idiot Executives cut this scene out because it had "too much fantasy". Dumb.
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.
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.
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!
Her name is Dorothy, and I hope you're not trying to imply a romance. Dorothy was a child.
@@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).
He was doing a forward moon walk slide at 1:30. What a great dancer and comedy guy. I can't believe that this was deleted
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.
R.I.P Ray Bolger the greatest scarecrow of all time
please tell me I'm not the only one watching out for the dog went he kept dancing...
You are the only one.
Ray Bolger actually complained about the dog,she almost tripped him over when they were dancing along the road as a foursome.
@@amybaker4654 Source?
Terry's trainer was keeping an eye on her.
@@amybaker4654 awww poor dog. I love Toto, I would never complain about her.!! 🐶
Really great scene, a classic. Can't believe it didn't make the cut.
If only a uncut version of the film existed 🙁
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.
3:47: "If a scarecrow could this in the real world, it would be scaring the shit out of everyone, never mind Crows.
Gregory Ray .
Now this comment tickled me! LOL! Nonetheless, very true.
this is still the most magical movie of them all
Yes xD
this one scene should be included in the wizard of oz
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.
Exactly! :)
+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.
@@RatBatSpiderCrab I don't think he expected it either.
2:14 and then how do you explain this?
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.
Omg. The splits he did...
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
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!
That was legendary. What were they thinking!
They cut it out because they thought the movie was running too long
I can't believe that went on for four minutes!
Scarecrow does a pretty good job in this, you go ray!
It's a shame they cut out that scene. I thought it was funny
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
They have NO right to delete that scene! Shame on that movie!!!
I can just imagine how the performers felt to see so much of their performance cut after all the work they'd put into it! But the final cut emphasized the scarecrow's wobbliness more than Ray Bolger's athleticism.
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.
Since its a film registered in congress and if a scene wasn't in the finished film it cant be put into the film sad
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!
I've seen a horsefly, a dragonfly, a firefly & a housefly but never a scarecrow fly :-)
I really wish they would bring this back in the movie. Especially the Jitterbug
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.
@@MaskedMan66 the technology is available, just like they did for Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher in Rogue One.
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.
OMG that is so hilarious! I almost died when he flew over the corn. Ha ha ha ha ha!
This dance was better than the Tin Man dance. I love that dance, too, but this is just awesome.
I've been looking for this deleted scene for a long time and here it is.
thank you for posting, this was my life as a kid i would watch this daily it was at teh end of the movie
BRILLIANT
Best musical masterpiece that all children love it, journeying over the Rainbow.
So do Adults!
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.
You probably saw "That's Entertainment."
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 You must have, because there was no such scene.
@@MaskedMan66 ohhhhhh ,🤨
@@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. :-(
For how old this was.. that was great editing! They should keep this for a deleted scene to see on a dvd!! It was good!
It’s available on the DVD as a bonus feature
Film editing was an art form by 1939. Movies had been around for almost fifty years by then.
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
that was awesome!!! ray bolger is a good dancer :)
This is my favorite dance. I've gone and watched it on my old DVD copy many times.
“Gosh it would be very pleasing to even out the reason for things I can’t explain”, wow that lie is very relatable
The great Ray Bolger !! Love the scarecrow, one of the greatest parts in American cinema!!
This scene is very remenescent of the tin man's dance which wasn't scrapped. The tin man starts dancing with no dialogue and dorothy and the scarecrow are left to do some miming
The scarecrow is my favourite character. I wish they would have put this scene in though. It is funny and it show Ray's talent in dancing!!
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.
2:07 bro got so Mad he defied gravity. 😂😂😂
I can't fathom why MGM why deleted t such a large part of this classic song and dance number! I can't fathom why MGM cut any of the scenes from this beloved, excellent, fantastic, magnificent, wonderful classic MGM 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz! A huge mistake! The 1939 MGM classic movie The Wizard of Oz is my absolute favorite movie ever! I own this on videotape, Laser Disc, DVD and Blue Ray! I love Judy Garland! I love everything about this movie! I love Terry the female Cairn Terrier who portrayed Toto in this classic movie! This movie is perfectly cast! Thank you for posting and sharing this! This is pure movie magic! I love this! I am so glad they found this number!
No remake can match this man. He is the originator.
He would have told you that Fred Stone, the first actor to ever play the Scarecrow, was the originator. 😀
@@MaskedMan66 true, but Ray Bolger set the standard for playing the scarecrow
@@bradyryan5105 Again, Bolger would tell you that Fred Stone set the standard.
There will never be a remake! It would really tick me Off! The movie The Wiz was stupid!
You do it smoothly and reaĺy good, they can now put this clip in the film👍👍👍
why the delete this its cute
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.
It's a shame this was taken out of the movie. Thank you for downloading this.
I watched this movie again yesterday, it’s so gooood
This scene is awesome! I don't care if it's over the top! That's what makes it funny! Why did they delete this masterpiece from the movie?
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.
@@ChuckD79 A producer heads up the production team, but he is the only producer.
@@MaskedMan66 how come? And will you please give me a reason why?
Outstanding Video!
Brilliant, Perfect Video!
he was my boyfriend omg I love u scarecrow and I want u back😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Was he really your boyfriend? You must be old now.
@@smolspacedorito6409 it's a lie
Omg lol
He was joking...
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 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. :)
It's a bummer it got cut! I really thought they were cute
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!
Brilliant Video!
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.
The Twister from Kansas Takes Scarecrow 2:50 🌪
Toto is so adorable (°◡°♡).:｡ 2:40
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.
No, actually there is other full original footage from the movie and alternate takes!
Spectacular Video!
Wonderful Video!
It's a shame you have to sit through stupid TH-cam advertisements to see this. Great post! He rocks!!!
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
Whatever the opinion is, it should be put back in.
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!
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Amazing!!
This scene should of stayed in the film.
Should have.
That was amazing!!!
It's incredible that by that time they had special effects!!!!
You're kidding, right? Special effects had been used in stage productions for centuries.
that was a good clip.
i remember dancing to this when i was younger
This is great. When my son was in 2nd grade in Orange County Calif., he played the Scarecrow in a Little Theater production of Wizard of Oz. He told the director they could not sing “Follow the Yellow Brick Road” because there wasn’t one. She had the set people paint one on the stage. Fun memory.
So epic, scarecrow invented jumpstyle.
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!
cutest scene!
This is amazing!
Outstanding!
The scarecrow does the splits in the dance
Beautiful Movie.
Oooh, never seen it befor .. thnx :D
This makes me so emotional 😿
"Oh, I'm a failure 'cause I haven't got a brain."
"Well, HWHAT would you do with a brain if you had one?"
"Sell propane and propane accessories."
I love this ❤
That part where he bounces off the fence is so cool, i'd love to do that