Special effects coordinator and inventor Arnold Gillespie simply tore down the rubber tornado and tried again. Gillespie didn't know much about tornadoes but realized he couldn't go to Kansas and wait for a tornado to come down and pick up a house. So, he relied upon his background as a pilot for many years even had his own airplane for his next idea. He remembered that wind socks at airports resembled the shape of a tornado.
He decided to make a tornado out of muslin plain woven cloth keeping it flexible so that it could bend, twist, and move from side to side. Gillespie finally built a thirty-five foot long tapered muslin sock. The top of the tornado was connected to a steel gantry suspended from the top of the stage. It was a mobile structure similar to those used in warehouses to lift heavy objects and could travel the entire length of the stage. The bottom of the tornado disappeared into a slot in the stage floor.
A rod came up through the base of the tornado to pull it from one side to another. By moving the gantry and the rod in opposite directions, it would make the tornado appear to snake back and forth. The first muslin tornado moved too violently and tore loose at the bottom.
It was decided to mend the fabric with music wire so it would hold together when spun. This was a tedious task as one person had to be inside the tornado to poke the needle back out each time.
To heighten the illusion a product known as "fullers earth", a powdery brown dust, was sprayed into the base of the tornado with hoses containing compressed air. The same material also was sprayed into the top of the wind sock. At its eye, he experiences a strange magical effect where gravity ends and everything is suspended in mid air, and the balloon is then carried to Oz. Oz Wiki Explore. Movies Albums Theatre Collectibles. New pictures New articles Current events Recent blog posts.
Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? History Talk 0. It's a twister! I can't find Dorothy! She's somewhere out in the storm! Dorothy, Dorothy..! There now came a sharp whistling in the air from the south, and as they turned their eyes that way they saw ripples in the grass coming from that direction also.
Suddenly, Uncle Henry stood up. Aunt Em dropped her work and came to the door. One glance told her of the danger close at hand. To satisfy an itch, went flying on her broomstick thumbing for a hitch! Remember there was no CGI in the s! So how did they create such dramatic events as a swirling, whirling tornado on screen? Frank Baum was inspired by a real-life weather disaster. Baum worked as a newspaper editor and learned about twin tornadoes that ripped through the town of Irving, Kansas in One of the victims of these destructive forces of nature was a woman named Dorothy Gale.
Baum used the same name for his main character in his novel and Judy Garland played Dorothy in the film version. According to Nese, the bottom of the tornado went into a slot on the stage floor. There it connected to a rod. The clouds in that scene were painted on glass layers. Gillespie would work as the head of special effects for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from to He would go on to be nominated for 12 Oscars and win four of them.
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