The Ruby Sippers Started Out As Silver Slippers

It is cool to hear the inside stories and get to know the secrets behind beloved films. For example, did you know that the famous ruby slippers that Dorothy uses to click her heels and get back home in the movie "The Wizard of Oz" were not originally ruby red? This should not be too surprising, after all any film that is based on a book has to go through some changes before it hits the screen. In fact the novel written by L. Frank Baum is actually called The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy sets off to look for a pair of silver slippers. How did the slippers go from silver to ruby, seeing as how the two things are very different? Well, The Wizard of Oz was made at the time when the people making movies were very excited about the possibilities available to them because of Technicolor. In order to take full advantage of the Technicolor process, the film makers thought it would be better to make sure that the coveted slippers that Dorothy sought really popped. So they discarded the silver slippers in favor of ruby ones. People who have seen the movie and know little about L. Frank Baum’s original book usually have know idea that the precious slippers that Dorothy thought would help her get home were silver in the original story.

In your own story, you may find that silver can still save the day and help you meet your goals and get where you want to go. Silver is quite valuable, even if the makers of the The Wizard of Oz movie saw fit to replace it with another gem for the sake of making the slippers stand out. You can sell silver and let a silver buyer replace your silver with spending power when they give you cash for silver. You probably do not have any silver slippers, but you likely have silver earrings, silver necklaces, silver cuff links, a silver watch, silver flatware, sterling silver objects, silver candle holders and silver statuettes. And just think, you will not even have to go as far as the Emerald City or undertake an epic journey to get this cash for silver. When you go online to contact a silver buyer, you can get a postage paid envelope and send your silver in without going very far at all.