I loved The Wizard of Oz (1939) as a kid. I loved the story, the music, the characters, the setting and the colors. A local theatre was playing the movie for a few days in honor of the 85th anniversary. I dove at the chance to watch it on the big screen and to rewatch a favorite from my childhood that I haven’t watched in over 20 years.

Compare that to The Wizard of Oz which is effectively a standalone film released in 1939 that was a half century pre 90's and is currently 80 years old and only a really a decade into the sound era of films. It's a completely different thing.

2024年1月29日 · I just took my kids to see an 85th anniversary showing of The Wizard of Oz, and one part of the film really stuck out: the lollipop guild. To recap, Dorothy's house lands in Munchkin land, crushing the wicked witch who had been oppressing the Munchkins. After confirming the witch's death, the Munchkins welcome Dorothy as a hero.

1900 - Baum publishes Wizard. 1902 - Wizard is adapted into an immensely popular stage play. 1903 - Baum desperately wants to write a sequel to Wizard, so he starts doing research on Oz, and manages to find a little information: Mombi, Tip, Ozma, sawhorse. He doesn't have enough to write a full story, so he makes up some stuff to fill the ...

2018年4月20日 · The Wizard of Oz is likely to be the oldest color film the majority of people today have seen, for various reasons (films lost, censored, not aged well, etc.), but it’s not particularly likely to have been the first color film most of its audience had seen – no more or less likely than Jesse James would have been. Older audience members ...

2024年3月21日 · But, Gone With the Wind also rented the camera, and Wizard of Oz had to give the camera back before they could finish filming the entire movie. It just so happened that they had filmed the scenes in the Emerald City first so the filmmakers ended up keeping that part in color and filming the rest in black and white.

2022年9月23日 · In 1939 seeing The Wizard of Oz would be like tripping for you first time today. You would always remember who got you the ticket which theater you were at and how old you were and who you were with. I would have been thunderstruck to have seen it as a kid back then.

2022年4月7日 · Recently, I’ve decided to re watch The Wizard of Oz since we’re doing The Wizard of Oz as a show at the community college I go to. I will say this: the movie is a lot better then I remember. I’ve even decided to do some more research about the movie and other stuff related to the movie.

The Wizard of Oz (1939) We're off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz! Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives.

2016年9月5日 · The Muppet Wizard of Oz, while a comedy starring Muppets in most of the roles, is a far more faithful adaption of the book than the 1939 movie.