TAKEN FROM THE DVD

3,700,000 - Cost, indollars, of making the film, plus prints and advertising

3,017,000 - Gross receipts, in dollars, from the film's initial release

165,000 - 1988 auction price, in dollars, of a pair of orignal ruby slippers

14,917 - (Here's mine!) Fans who have visited both the enter and index page of "The Wizard of Oz Online" as of May 9, 1999

10,000 - Fans thronging the August 15, 1939, Hollywood premire

1,100 - Approximate number of wires used to rig the Flying Monkeys

1060 - Production number given the film at MGM

1,000 - Number of costumes designed by Adrian

1,000 - Amount in dollars, of his weekly salary that Jack Haley gave back to the studio in exhange for permission to work on his weekly radio program during producton

300 - Extras hired for Emerald City crowd scenes

124 - Total number of actors portraying Munchkin

100 - Approximate weigh, in pounds, of the Cowardly Lion's costume

70 - Approximate number of sets used in the film

50 - Movies released by MGM in 1939

26 - Desingnation of the soundstage housing the orchard and cornfield

14 - Full-length Oz stories created by L. Frank Baum

12 - Approximate time in minutes, Margaret Hamilton (Miss Gulch/the wicked Witch of the West) is on screen

11 - Daily pay, in dollars, for the witch's stand in

10- Writers who worked on the screenplay

10 - Films, including The Wizard of Oz, nominated for 1939's Best Picture Oscar

9 - Other MGM projects being filmed when Wizard shooting begain

6 - Total number of soundstages used

4.67 - Height in feet, of tallest Munchkin

4 -Total number of directors who worked on the film

4 - Rank of "Over the Rainbow" on sheet music sales chart one week before the film's opening

3 - Days director George Cukor worked on the film

2.25 -height, in feet, of shortest Munchkin

2 - Hours in makeup room each morning for Ray Boger

1.41 - Hourly wage, in dollars, of a studio prop man (circa 1939)

1 - Number of shoeshine boys on the studio payroll