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What color were the real Oompa Loompas?

a) Black.
b) golden.
c) colorful.
d) orange.

In the first edition (1964) of Roald Dahl's classic children's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the indefatigable and devoted Oompa-Loompas were black instead of orange.

Dahl described them as a tribe of 3000 pygmies taken by Mr. Wonka from "the most impenetrable and darkest corner of the African jungle, where no white man's foot has set foot" to replace the white workers fired from the factory. The Oompa-Loompas lived exclusively on chocolate, although before that they only ate "beetles, caterpillars, eucalyptus leaves and the bark of the bong bong tree."

Despite the huge popularity of the first edition, the author's description of the mischievous folk with its clear hint of slavery smacked too much of racism, and in the early 1970s the American publishing house Knopf insisted on changing the text. A revised edition of the book appeared in 1972. The black pygmies disappeared and were replaced by the Oompa-Loompas, who look like little hippies with long "golden brown hair" and "pinkish-white skin".

Dahl's book illustrator Quentin Blake later depicted them as multicolored futuristic punks with Mohawk haircuts. In both Hollywood film adaptations - 1971 and 2005 - the Oompa-Loompas looked like orange elves.

Dahl disliked the 1971 film terribly, in no small part because screenwriter David Seltzer (who later wrote The Omen) forced (without the author's permission) Mr. Wonka to throw in poetic quotations that were not in the book.

The name of the film was also changed: it became known as "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" - allegedly because at that time in the United States the word "Charlie" was a street slang nickname for African Americans.

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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