The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1910 American silent film and the earliest surviving film version of L. Frank Baum’s made by the Selig Polyscope Company without Baum’s direct input.
It was created to fulfill a contractual obligation associated with Baum’s personal bankruptcy caused by ”The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays”, from which it was once thought to have been derived.
It was partly based on the The Wizard of Oz 1902 stage play, though much of the film deals with the Wicked Witch of the West, who does not appear in the musical.
Auntie Em:
Hate you.
Hate Kansas.
Taking the dog.
— Dorothy
People moved faster back in the day.
In the 70’s our dad bought a 8mm projector and we used to check out historic film from the city library. There were some great ones like Laurel and Hardy.
I assume at the 2:40 point that’s the NORKS army entering into the fray?
Strange that Dorothy found the scarecrow while still in Kansas.
A Great American classic, one of my all time favorites!
I even did the Pink Floyd “Dark Side of the Moon” thing with this movie once. Start the record when the MGM lion roars, and turn the sound down on the video. Pretty amazing.
They had mushrooms that made you fly
Don’t judge a book by its movies
I was a little confused…but thankfully the Indian’s leading in the
Arabian Camels tied the whole thing together.