FOUND: All roads lead back to flying monkeys - What They Never Told You

In 1939, when Victor Fleming's MGM adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's novel, "The Wizard of Oz" debuted in theaters, American families were provided the opportunity to momentarily transport themselves away from the grim reality of World War II into another land, just over the rainbow, where the biggest concerns were flying monkeys and a green-faced witch — the original Karen — who hated dogs and was willing to risk it all for a pair of shoes. 

Born seven years after the release of this film, David Lynch would one day mark the event of witnessing Dorothy (Judy Garland) journey from her home in rural Kansas to a place of pure, unexplainable imagination as being formative in his own work as a painter and filmmaker. And in all that, there grew an apparent fascination with monkeys. Not so much monkeys with wings, but monkeys put in close proximity to creamed corn and lots and lots of cigarettes.