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Return To Oz (1985)?
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`~10270~` actually performed most of the film barefoot, as she found her black shoes uncomfortable, and the ruby slippers were very fragile and easily damaged. Thus, the actress only wore shoes when they would be visible on camera. `~10278~`, who plays Ozma, also auditioned for the role of Dorothy. The Scarecrow was originally supposed to have a fully articulated animatronic face, akin to that of the Gump, however budget cuts forced the puppeteers to reduce his face to a series of masks with fixed expressions. A gymnast stood upside-down (with legs bent) inside Tik-Tok's body to move the legs. `~8586~` who plays the Lead Wheeler, one of the asylum orderlies, and provides the voice of the Nome Messenger also served as a movement coach on the film, working to develop the postures and movements of the Scarecrow and Jack Pumpkinhead. To create the stop-motion puppets of the nomes, `~10271~` and `~8586~` were photographed against a background grid. `~4346~` then watched the footage frame by frame and manipulated the puppets based on the movements and expressions of the actors. In order to include the ruby slippers as part of this film, Disney had to pay royalties to MGM, the studio which had produced !~wizard_oz~!~The Wizard of Oz~!. The ruby slippers did not appear in the original novel @%The Wonderful Wizard of Oz%@; they were invented for the 1939 film to better take advantage of the newly developed Technicolor process. Interestingly enough, in @%The Wonderful Wizard of Oz%@, Dorothy wore a pair of magical silver shoes which were actually destroyed when she used them to return to Kansas. In the subsequent novel @%Ozma of Oz%@, one of the books on which this film is based, Dorothy and her friends meet the Nome King who possesses a magical belt with properties similar to those of the silver shoes. Early drafts of the script for @%Return to Oz%@ reflect this, with the Nome King possessing a magical ruby belt which had been created from the ruby slippers. Originally the Scarecrow, Tin Woodsman and Cowardly Lion were to have more prominent roles in this film, however, budget cuts forced their appearances to be reduced to mere cameos. `~10270~` did all her own stunts. While filming the sequence near the end of film where Dorothy rides atop the Cowardly Lion, actress `~10270~` became so overwhelmed by the temperature that she passed out on the sound stage.
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