This careful approach to ensuring the film was the best it could be went into creating the tornado as well. According to a 2014 Washington Post article, The Wizard of Oz was the first depiction of ...

T he recent theatrical release of "Wicked" sets up the story of how "The Wizard of Oz," its tornado, the Wicked Witch of the West and Dorothy Gale's trip to see the wizard came about.

The case of the missing Wizard of Oz ruby slippers has ended abruptly ... He blasted it with compressed air and, voila, it's the tornado that sends our heroine flying over the rainbow.

Dorothy and her dog Toto are caught in a tornado's path and somehow end up in the land of Oz. Here she encounters some memorable friends and foes in her journey to meet the Wizard of Oz who ...