Smith Sunni Learned To Raise $300 Thousand For Ruby Colored Shoes.

Since 17, the Smith Sunni society has repaired a pair of Judy Galland's books in the movie "Wizard of Oz".

A total of $300 thousand was raised on Kickstarter, with a deadline of November 16th.

Audiences who have seen the Movie Wizard of Oz know that these magic rubies are not as simple as general props. They play an important role in the progress of the plot.

The good northern witch gave it to Dorothea, and she put it on the yellow brick road. Though the evil witch tried to snatch it again, she was hurt by the magic of the shoe.

Finally, with the help of it, Dorothea was able to return to his hometown.

"It symbolizes optimism in the American spirit."

"Ruby shoes are one of our most cherished exhibits," Dwight Blocker Bowers, curator of the Smith Sunni society, said in an interview last year.

In the National Museum of history, it is displayed in a locker with limited lighting and monitored by a camera for 24 hours.

On the fundraising page of Kickstarter, a video was distributed to show that the ruby shoe was now overshadowed by the irradiation of long years of lighting, and that if rubbed shoes were not repaired, the situation of ruby shoes would deteriorate day by day.

In addition to the video, it also contains text descriptions and pictures to explain why we have federal funds to support, but we need generosity and Ruby shoes.

Ruby shoes are one of the most popular exhibits at the National Museum of history.

Interestingly, in the original work written by Lyman Frank Baum, Dorothea wore a pair of silver shoes. From the illustrations of the book, she could also see the footsteps of her shining silver shoes.

But when the movie was filmed, the screenwriter Noel Langley proposed to change the color of shoes to red in order to display the rapid development of color film printing as far as possible.

Shoes were made by MGM's then chief fashion.

Gilbert Adrian's design, full of ruby sequins made it shine brightly under the lights. The decorative bow shows Dorothea's loveliness. The tiny height can make up for the height difference between Dorothea and lion, iron man and scarecrow, without affecting her long journey.

In the film, the evil Western witch tried to steal the ruby shoes but was hurt by the magic of the shoes.

It was said that six or seven pairs of shoes were produced for the filming, but only five pairs are known.

Judy Galland wore four pairs of films in 1939, and a pair of them dressed in the audition.

In fact, except for a woman in Memphis who won a pair in 1940 for a competition, the fate of the remaining Ruby shoes remained unknown for a long time.

Until 1970, MGM

Kent Warner, a department employee, found four treasures in the warehouse of the film factory.

He left a pair of himself, sold two pairs, and handed a pair to the auctioneer's hand.

In the illustrations depicted by Charles Santore for the original, you can see Dorothea wearing a pair of silver shoes.

The surviving five pairs of ruby shoes are now in the following directions: the collection of the US National History Museum was donated by an anonymous person in 1979. It first came from an auction at MGM in 1970, when the paction price was 15000 dollars; the US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and science had a pair; an investment and collection organization had a pair; in 2011, someone bought the pair from the actor Debbie Reynolds, and the green paradise fairy theme park opened in 1970, which was obtained by the help of Reynolds.

The remaining pair was originally displayed in the Judy Galland Museum in Minnesota, but was stolen in 2005.

Although an anonymous person invested $1 million in 2015 to reward the whereabouts of the shoes, the local security department organized a diving team to search nearby lakes, but the shoes are still missing.

On the crowd raising page, where are the shoes needed to be repaired?

In addition to Dorothea's shoes, the National Museum of history also contains the scarecrow costumes and the original script, which shows that the color of Dorothea's shoes is still in the original silver, not the later ruby color.

From this point of view, the crowd is also determined to win, ruby shoes will reproduce the past.