9. The Tornado Is Actually A Sock Being Twirled Around By A Fan (The Wizard of Oz)
In this day and age, animation students are probably conjuring up things like "hurricanes" and "clouds" and "tornados" in their sleep, because, c'mon - they're just bits of weather, aren't they? No biggie. And yet there was a time in history where the talented filmmakers behind
The Wizard of Oz must've sat across from one another, stared in silence for a few minutes, before one of them said: "How the are we gonna do the tornado?" You probably would have never guessed in a million years that they'd end up rendering an incredibly realistic and genuinely impressive tornado using the means in which they did. Which, by the way, involved
hanging up a muslin sock and twirling it around with a fan. Seriously. The final "tornado" effect was achieved the moment the special effects team decided to hurl sand and debris at it, too. This is how they rolled in 1938, people.