At the end of the sequence in which Dorothy and the Scarecrow first meet the Tin Man, as the three march off singing "We're Off to See the Wizard," there is a disturbance in the trees off to the right. This was long rumored to be one of the crew (or, by some accounts, one of the Munchkin actors) committing suicide by hanging himself. In fact it is the silhouette of a crested crane stretching its wings, as several large birds had been allowed to wander the background to lend the appearance of mysterious creatures lurking in the woods (a close look reveals the bird's black-tipped white wing as the bird reacts to the actors passing close by). The crane is spotted in the background several times prior to the "hanging" scene. The conspiracy was disturbing enough for Warner Bros. to edit the footage, and in all official, remastered version releases since 1998, the "Hanging Munchkin" is gone and the stork has been digitally colored bright pink so that it cannot be mistaken for anything else. However, further confusion grew in the 2000s, when an unknown person released a short clip of "original, enhanced footage" in which the stork had been entirely erased and a clearer image of a hanging human form edited in its place. The urban legend of the "Hanging Munchkin," while false, persists.

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