The Wizard of Oz Movie Review (1. As a child I simply did not notice whether a movie was in color or.

The movies themselves were such an overwhelming mystery that if they. It was not until I. The Wizard of Oz" for the first time that I consciously noticed B& W. Dorothy was blown out of Kansas and into Oz.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum was a hit from the start. Published in 1900, the story of Dorothy and her friends the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly. Back in 1910, a 13-minute silent film called The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was produced. By today’s standards, it’s delightfully creepy, but 105 years ago, it was. The above line of course belongs to the Tin Man, the role that caused the most problems for the production. The original choice was Buddy Ebsen (The Beverly.

What did I think? It made good sense to me. The switch from black and white to color would have had a. Almost all films were still.

Technicolor consultant” from the factory, who stood next to the. Shooting in. color might have been indicated because the film was MGM's response to the huge. Disney's pioneering color animated feature, "Snow White and the.

As a child I simply did not notice whether a movie was in color or. L. Frank Baum’s children’s book “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” has inspired countless film and theatrical adaptations, including Victor Fleming’s iconic 1939. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: A Monetary Reformer’s Brief Symbol Glossary by Patrick S.J. Carmack, J.D. The following is a compilation of several views of the. L. Frank Baum first told the story in 1899 in his classic novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Since the book was published more than 110 years ago, one might assume.

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Seven Dwarfs" (1. Advertisement. If. Wizard” began in one way and continued in another, that was also the history. Richard Thorpe, the original director, was fired after 1. George Cukor filled in for three days, long enough to tell Judy Garland. Watch The Sadness Download Full.

Victor Fleming took over. When Fleming. went to “Gone With the Wind,” King Vidor did some of the Munchkin sequences.

Kansas scenes. There. Buddy Ebsen, as the Tin Man, had an allergic. Jack Haley. Musical numbers. Margaret Hamilton (the Wicked Witch of the West). Even Toto was out of.

We. study all of these details, I think, because “The Wizard of Oz” fills such a. It somehow seems real and important in a way. Is that because we see it first when we’re young? Or simply. because it is a wonderful movie? Or because it sounds some buried universal. I. lean toward the third possibility, that the elements in “The Wizard of Oz”. For kids of a certain.

But over the rainbow, dimly. There is a deep. fundamental fear that events might conspire to transport the child from the. And what would he. Why, new friends, to advise and protect him. And Toto, of. course, because children have such a strong symbiotic relationship with their.

This. deep universal appeal explains why so many different people from many. The Wizard of Oz.”. Salman Rushdie, growing up in Bombay, remembers that seeing the film at 1. Terry Mc. Millan, as an African- American child in northern. Michigan, “completely identified when no one had time to listen to Dorothy.”. Rushdie wrote that the film's “driving force is the inadequacy of adults, even. Mc. Millan learned about courage, about “being.

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And that even the Wizard of Oz is. The. Wizard of Oz” has a wonderful surface of comedy and music, special effects and. As adults, we love it because it reminds us of a. That is why any adult in control of a child is sooner or. The Wizard of Oz.”Judy. Garland had, I gather, an unhappy childhood (there are those stories about MGM. Dorothy. She was important to the movie because she projected vulnerability and.

A brassy young child star (a. Ethel Merman, say) would have been fatal to the material because she. Garland’s whole persona. When she hoped that troubles. Her. friends on the Yellow Brick Road (the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, the Cowardly. Lion) were projections of every child's secret fears.

Are we real? Are we ugly. Are we brave enough? In helping them, Dorothy was helping herself. Jack Haley, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr) had all come up through a tradition. Maybe it helped that none of them knew they were making a. They seem relaxed and loose in many scenes, as if the roles were a. L. Frank Baum's book had been filmed before (Oliver Hardy played the Tin.

Man in 1. 92. 5), and this version, while ambitious, was overshadowed by the. Gone With the Wind.” Garland was already. Wizard,” but not a great star- -that came in the 1. Wizard.”Advertisement. The. special effects are glorious in that old Hollywood way, in which you don't even.

Modern. special effects show *exactly* how imaginary scenes might look; effects then. A bigger Yellow Brick Road would not have.

The. movie's storytelling device of a dream is just precisely obvious enough to. Dorothy, faced with a crisis (the loss of Toto). Professor Marvel (Frank Morgan) on the road. She is. befriended by three farm hands (Bolger, Haley and Lahr). Soon comes the. fearsome tornado. What frightened me was that you could see individual things.

I dreamed circling around and around while seated at. Then, after the magical transition to color, Dorothy meets the same characters.

There. are good and bad adult figures in Oz- -the Wicked Witches of the East and West. Good Witch Glinda. Dorothy would like help from her friends but needs to. If I Only Had a Brain,” or a heart, or nerve, they sing). Arriving at last at the Emerald City, they have another dreamlike experience. Morgan). The Wizard sends them on a mission to get the Wicked Witch's broom. Dorothy’s return to Kansas is the.

Grownup shoes. The. Dorothy is back in Kansas, but the. The land of Oz wasn't such a bad place to be stuck in,” decided young. Terry Mc. Millan, discontented with her life in Michigan. It beat the farm in.