STORM2K

Just watched it again on TNT


How, in 1938, when I doubt many people had motion picture footage of a real tornado, did they get a tornado that looked so real.

I'm always blown away by how good some very old, pre-green screen and CGI era special effects were, or how bad the green screen effects in movies like the 1970s remake of "King Kong" was.

Here is an explanation for how the spfx people did it:

http://www.stormtrack.org/library/fringe/oz.htm

And here, a slightly different explanation of events:

http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~doswell/Confer ... 6/WoO.html

Yes, it is amazing how real it was. I thought there was a lack of knowledge about how the Wizard of Oz tornado was produced. Something about the originators dying before the knowledge was passed on or recorded.

I think that movies like Twister, Day After Tomorrow, and other remakes have done such a poor job of making realistic tornadoes. I thought the S-10 commercial with Gene Rhoden about a decade back actually did a convincing job of producing a faux tornado.

I found some uncut footage of the "OZ" tornado

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTjFFTmxOIQ

You're right. The tornado scenes of the modern era can't touch that tornado. It looks so real to me.

When I was little, my older brother always told me and my sister crazy stories just to mess with us. He once told us that a real tornado had formed behind the fake tornado. (Looking at the picture posted, it does look kind of like a wedge tornado is behind the Oz tornado.)

Anyway, he said everyone had to get in the storm cellar and film the rest of the movie there.

HurricaneBill wrote:When I was little, my older brother always told me and my sister crazy stories just to mess with us. He once told us that a real tornado had formed behind the fake tornado. (Looking at the picture posted, it does look kind of like a wedge tornado is behind the Oz tornado.)...

You right....perhaps the Oz tornado shown is actually a Satellite tornado of a larger wedge. I wish they would pan up, so we could see the vault, and meso, and the inflow tail, etc.....

On http://www.Howstuffworks.com a year ago, the fun fact stated that the Wizard of Oz tornado was made from a stocking of some sort. I never noticed that double tornado that looks like a wedge behind the main one.