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Overview

User Rating:
6.1/10   77 votes
Director:
Ted Eshbaugh
Writers:
Frank Joslyn Baum (writer)
L. Frank Baum (novel)
Plot:
A storybook opens to depict little Dorothy on the grey Kansas prairies, when suddenly a cyclone comes up... more | add synopsis
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Early Versions more


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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:9 min
Country:
Canada
Language:
None | English
Colour:
Colour (Technicolor) | Black and White
Sound Mix:
Mono
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
This was the first film, cartoon or otherwise, to show the Kansas scenes in black and white and the land of Oz in color. Legal difficulties prevented its release in 1933. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in The X Files (1998) more

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Early Versions, 13 March 2008
Author: MichaelElliott1 from Louisville, KY

Wizard of Oz, The (1933)

*** (out of 4)

Pretty good Technicolor cartoon based on the book. The animation is rather nice and the scarecrow and tin man are pretty funny here as well. This was the first version to show Kansas in B&W and then Oz in color.

Magic Cloak of Oz, The (1914)

*** (out of 4)

The fairies of Oz create a magic cloak, which will give one wish to the person who wears it. Once again the production design is very good here with wonderful and magical sets. The story is quite touching and I'm sure kids would love this version just as much as adults. The highlight of the film is the scene where a horse (played by a human in an outfit) is scratching his butt up against a tree and tries to teach a monkey how to do it.

Wizard of Oz, The (1910)

*** (out of 4)

Nice if strange version of the classic tale. The production values here are actually pretty nice and it's a rather strange trip seeing humans in outfits playing the various animals including the lion.

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