The scene implies that romance will eventually develop between the two, which also may have been intended as an explanation for Dorothy's partiality for the Scarecrow over her other two companions. His voice can be heard in the group vocals of "We're Off to See the Wizard". Due to time constraints, the song was cut from the final theatrical version. "Much attention was given to the use of color in the production, with the MGM production crew favoring some hues over others. The script went through several writers and revisions before the final shooting.They completed the final draft of the script on October 8, 1938, following numerous rewrites.In addition, songwriter Harburg's son (and biographer) Ernie Harburg reported: The sound recording for the song, however, is intact and was included in the two-CD Another musical number cut before release came right after the Wicked Witch of the West was melted and before Dorothy and her friends returned to the Wizard. During the reshoots in May, the inside of the farm house was painted sepia, and when Dorothy opens the door, it is not Garland, but her stand-in, Bobbie Koshay, wearing a sepia gingham dress, who then backs out of frame. The 2D version still retains its G rating.The film was re-released on January 11 and 14, 2015, as part of the "TCM Presents" series by with the best of will and ingenuity, they cannot make a Munchkin or a Flying Monkey that will not still suggest, however vaguely, a Singer's Midget in a According to Nugent, "Judy Garland's Dorothy is a pert and fresh-faced miss with the wonder-lit eyes of a believer in fairy tales, but the Baum fantasy is at its best when the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Lion are on the move. Admitting to being a As Dorothy and the Wizard prepare to depart, the Wizard places the Scarecrow in charge of Emerald City, with the Tin Man and the Lion as his aides. "Over the Rainbow" was almost deleted. Each frame was to be hand-tinted to maintain the sepia tone. Several of the recordings were completed while Ebsen was still with the cast. Upon their return to the Emerald City, the Wizard stalls in fulfilling his promises until Toto pulls back a curtain and exposes the "Wizard" as a middle-aged man operating machinery and speaking into a microphone. Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion dancing in the Haunted Forest after being "bit" by the JitterbugWhat appears to be the Jitterbug itself seen on screen for the first time in The six-minute sequence took fully five weeks to rehearse and film, at a cost of $80,000. Several tests were done to find the right makeup and clothes for Ebsen.Production on the bulk of the Technicolor sequences was a long and exhausting process that ran for over six months, from October 1938 to March 1939. LeRoy, uncredited associate producer Arthur Freed and director Fleming fought to keep it in, and they eventually won. This also meant that the reshoots provided the first proper shot of Munchkinland.

"The Jitterbug" was a song intended to appear in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Once the camera moves through the door, Garland steps back into frame in her bright blue gingham dress (as noted in DVD extras), and the sepia-painted door briefly tints her with the same color before she emerges from the house's shadow, into the bright glare of the Technicolor lighting. (Listen all you chillun to that voodoo moan, There's a modern villun worser than that old boogie woogie, When that goofy critter spots your fancy clothes, He injects a jitter, Starts you dancing on a thousand toes, There he goes!) An encore of this event took place in theaters on November 17, 2009.In 2013, in preparation for its IMAX 3D release, the film was submitted to the MPAA for re-classification.