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Kickstarter campaign aims

To save Dorothy's fading ruby slippers

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"The Wizard of Oz" ruby red slippers became one of the film's most iconic props
Washington - Arab Today

Wishful thinking and three heel-clicks whisked Dorothy back home in "The Wizard of Oz," but it will take hard cash to restore her ruby red slippers.

The sparkling shoes dazzled audiences of the 1939 film classic as Dorothy, played by Judy Garland, danced down the yellow brick road. Now the US Smithsonian's Museum of American History in Washington -- where they are on public display -- has launched a crowdfunding Kickstarter campaign to raise $300,000 for restoring their pizzazz.

The shoes, made nearly 80 years ago, are in dire need of repair as well as a new display case to protect them from environmental harm, the museum said.

The Smithsonian Institution -- which oversees museums and research centers in and near Washington -- receives federal funding to support its core operations, but that money will not cover repairing the shoes, it added.

The institution often solicits corporate and private donations to pay for projects beyond its budget.

Conservators say the shoes' sequins are flaking, leaving them more of a washed-out auburn than the glittery ruby color for which they're known.

The Smithsonian had raised just over $85,000 as of Tuesday afternoon, with slightly under a month left in the fundraising campaign.

MGM Studios' prop department created the low-heeled shoes by dying commercially manufactured low-heeled slippers red and attaching red sequined netting.

The slippers became one of the film's most iconic props, on near-constant display at the museum since they were anonymously donated in 1979.

Millions of visitors view them each year, and they are slated to be part of a new 2018 exhibition on American innovation in music, sports and entertainment.

The Kickstarter campaign is the Smithsonian's second, after it raised $719,779 last year through crowdfunding to conserve Neil Armstrong's spacesuit.

The museum issued its appeal with the words of the Wicked Witch of the West: "These things must be done delicately -- or you hurt the spell."

Source: AFP

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