THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION
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27:34 - Review
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You killed me with "she has a sweet voice". She's Judy freaking Garland!
...and Liza Minelli's mom! ☺
the mother of Liza Mennelli
I am sure she doesn't know who Judy Garland is OR her daughter Liza Minelli.
She has no clue who Judy Garland is.
She also smoked about a carton of cigarettes a day.
"He's just giving them objects; there's got to be a lesson here."
The lesson is that what they thought they needed so badly to be complete, they had in themselves all along.
I really thought that was obvious..we saw the three of the produce the very things they thought they didn't have.
Yeah I thought that extremely obvious as well. I thought she even pointed it out multiple times.
I think Cassie get distracted by the cheesey effects (not 2020 level vfx) and over the top acting. Plus she is making instant comments to make the reaction more interesting. So cut her some slack.
@@lethaldose2000
Also, it helps to be six years old. When this was on tv in the mid-60's--a black and white tv, mind you--I had to run into the kitchen every time the wicked witch appeared.
Angry, animate trees? Evil flying monkeys? Aw hell no. To my 6-year old brain, those effects were more than special enough.
No, she is right.
The better lesson would have been: You don't need a diplom to prove you have a brain. You don't need a medal to prove your courage. And you don't need a heart shaped object to prove that you've got a heart.
But this film is from 1930something. So, no offence.
Margaret Hamilton’s Wicked Witch of the West became the prototype for wicked witches after this film. She was a former kindergarten teacher who just adored children. She and Judy Garland became wonderful friends. At the time that this film came about, Hamilton was raising a small son on her own. She wasn’t very keen on the idea of playing a character who would be so frightening to children worldwide, but as she commented,”I loved my little boy, and since we needed the money, I took the job.”
My grandfather was 9 years old when this came out. He said the audience that he was with broke out into applause once it changed to color. How amazing would it have been to be there in person?
People today overthink things I stead of just taking it as a story.
I agree. I wish I could have seen it. My grandmother wasn't born yet when this came out. But my great-grandmother was around 20 years old.
"Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking." Scarecrow predicting Twitter 80 years ago lol.
That or Congress
@@coyotefever105 Yes, but I am pretty sure that Mark Twain made a spot on comment about Congress well before the Scarecrow came along.
“Let us suppose that you were a criminal. And let us suppose that you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
WELL SAID!
Wizard of Oz is the very definition of a classic. The sudden door opening of black and white into gushingly beautiful Technicolor is one of the greatest reveals in cinema history.
If you'll notice, the prolog and epilog weren't in black & white, but the sepia tones of old, old photographs.
@@shallowgal462 Spot on Linda!
I wish they had filmed audience reactions back then.
My husband's grandmother saw this in theaters when it released. She said the door opening into color was one of the most memorable moments of her life.
@@SarahRichardsGraba Same year Victor Fleming's other "Greatest film of all time" masterpiece Gone With The Wind also came out. I bet your granny loved both of 'em. Lol.
Fun fact- MGM actually didn’t want Over the Rainbow in the movie bc they didn’t want their leading lady singing in a farmyard. Like it was considered undignified and whatnot, and the director FOUGHT to keep it in and it turned out to be one of the most iconic movie songs of all time lol
True. Arthur Freed told the front office, "The song stays or I walk." The song stayed, and I'm so glad people fought for it. The movie wouldn't be the same without it.
Slight correction; The Good Witch is named Glinda, not Linda. And yes, this movie was based on a book; in fact there are a whole series of books about Oz. Several of them are in the public domain and can be downloaded from Google books for free.
So anyone can make their own Oz adaptation. Lol even if they make it their own, they still pay homage to the MGM version because it's THAT iconic.
I'd honestly like to see a dark fantasy take on Oz, closer to the brutality depicted in the books. Scarecrow literally wrings the necks of crows and Tin Man is just decapitating creatures!
@@fynnthefox9078 then you need to watch Return to Oz. It's not as good of a movie as the Wizard of Oz, but it is a dark tale more similar to the books.
Original book was published in 1900
Glinda was played by Billie Burke, still beautiful at 54. I like her screwball comedy characters: Millicent in "Dinner at Eight" and Daisy in "The Man Who Came to Dinner"
The costume folks looked in hand-me-down stores for a coat for Professor Marvel, and found one with a name label "L. Frank Baum" - the author of the Wizard of Oz books! True story.
"OMG, kids watched this!" As a child watching movies in the 80s, it wasn't a kids' movie unless some part of it gave you nightmares.
Kids love to be scared and accompanying adults get bored.
Least ways that was the thinking.
Seriously. Anyone else remember Unico in the Island of Magic ? *shudder *
Awe those flying monkeys
"Return To Oz" was legitimately terrifying and gave me nightmares for weeks as a kid.
MGM had to tone down the scary parts because some kids were so scared, their parents had to carry them out of the theater. I'd like to see that version.
The actress who played the wicked witch (Margaret Hamilton) was actually a very sweet lady who taught young children for a living before acting. She even appeared in an episode of Mister Rogers to show kids that the witch was all make believe by dressing up as her and explaining how things were done on set as she did so
I saw that one...but then again, I grew up watching Mr. Rogers LOL!
Thanks Katie. I am glad someone mentioned how nice Margaret truly was. She sold coffee on TV in the 70's.
Also Poor Margret Hamalton was burned during the film
@@thomast8539 Yes, as Cora in her general store selling Maxwell House.
@@dje6719 During the scene in Munchkinland when the trap door that lowered her down through the floor and the flash powder to hide her exit weren't timed properly.
When I was growing up in the 60's, this movie came on every year around Halloween. We used to go over to the neighbor's house to watch it because they had a colored t.v. and we only had a black and white t.v. This movie was watched by every child in America every year and I remember when I was enlisted in the Navy this came on and all of us young sailors, most of us still teenagers, got together in the barracks lounge and watched this together. Every one of us knew all of the words and we basically narrated the entire movie as we watched it. One of my favorite memories after serving 4 years in the Navy from 1978 - 1982.
This was the first movie my mother ever saw. She was 10 in 1939 and her school went to the movie theater on a field trip. Her parents were very religious and did not approve of going to the movie theater, but made an exception since it was a school activity. She always had a little dog her whole life and loved this movie.
it's hard to imagine someone not seeing this as a child, I don't really remember a time before I knew about the Wizard of Oz.
I remember it was a huge deal when this movie was shown on TV every year when I was a kid. It was like a holiday. I never missed it.
I know what you mean. It seems to me that I was born knowing the Wizard of Oz.
In the 80s it was often shown on TV and was a big deal when shown. But she is younger than I and by the 90s it wasn't as ubiquitous.
Especially with how much people reference it. It's a cultural keystone at this point
I wonder how often it was shown on Canadian television when she was a child? (I have to remind myself she's Canadian some times.)
The “lesson” that was supposed to be learned by Dorothy’s companions was that they always had a brain, a heart, and courage. The wizard gave them the objects as affirmations, but only so they would accept the truth about themselves.
This was much more apparent in the book, in which the Scarecrow was always coming up with the brilliant plans, the Tinman was always showing compassion, and the Lion would literally rip out the throats of his enemies. 😲
Great comment :)
It was apparent in the movie, (even before they killed the witch, hell, with the scarecrow it was apparent from the beginning) even watching as a kid I got that. I don't know how it went over her head.
But Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man
That he didn't, didn't already have czcams.com/video/mbHmAINyiO0/video.html
Absolutely true. And I still tear up a bit at the Wizard's "gift" for the Tin Man. Only a person with a great heart is truly loved by others, and it is often true that the greater the heart, the more plentiful the love from others for it.
@@thatpatrickguy3446 hmm...my takeaway is that since the wizard is a fraud, his gifts are also fraudulent--trinkets people in the real world hold in esteem like diplomas and awards when these things don't really matter compared to the truth of who we are on the inside. Thus, telling the Lion only a person with a great heart is truly loved by others is not necessarily true. I happen to believe a lot of people with great hearts are not always loved by others, and it takes a great heart to give love without receiving it.
When I was a kid they played this movie once a year. I grew up waiting for it like you would another Holiday. It became the First movie for people to see multiple times. Another cool thing was when I was really young we only had a B&W TV. So I saw the whole movie 3 or 4 times in black and white. Then one year we got a new color TV and the movie came on again. When it changed to color it was huge wonderful surprise to me. It seemed like a magical thing happening. To this day it remains the movie I have seen more than any other in my life. (X 10)
some of the actors never saw the movie until '56.
I am 61 I also grew up watching it every year, and then I showed it for years to my 4 kids, I thought I knew a ton about it, but when I saw online someone asked me what did the Tinman, Scarecrow & lion carry in the Witches forest, I said tinman obviously Axe, Lion, I said nothing, Scarecrow I had no clue, I guessed a stick, boy was I wrong, Tinman had the axe yes, but he carried a Giant Wrench bigger than the axe, the lion a butterfly net, I think it was, and a giant bug spray can, and what scared me when I found out, the Scarecrow had a PISTOL< WOW!, I've asked everyone I know, my cousin said she was an OZ expert, none 1 person remembered the pistol, the bug spray can or the wrench, WHY?
That was exactly my experience with the movie also, waiting for when it would be aired each spring! And then when I saw it on our new color TV I was blown away that it transitioned into color and why no one hadn't told me this!
We recorded it with our first vcr. Then us kids would watch it every day after school. Must have watched it 100x.
They still do every Holliday season
This is really a movie you have to see as a kid. It’s both terrifying and wonderful at the same time.
As a kid, it all was real to me. Now as an adult, I notice the plastic leaves and things. The nostalgia protects it at least. ❤
It scared Liza and Lorna when they were kids, their babysitter had to call their mom cause they were so worried!
@@katereilly9367 Liza was older though.
The coloring and the effects were revolutionary at the time. It's hard to believe now, but back then this was just groundbreaking in so many ways.
And in a day before CG, the tornado was done with stockings on a wire mesh spun around in a soundstage. It was so real people were actually reports jumping out of their seats and almost leaving the theater. All of the effects...fire bursting from the floor, all the little people extras, flying monkies, etc... was completely new and had people amazed! Actually, Buddy Ebson, Jed from the Beverly Hillbillies started as the tin man but had to be rushed to the hospital after a day of shooting because he was deathly allergic to the silver paint on his skin. Also, Margaret Hamilton as the with was badly burned when dropping back through the floor to leave Munchkinland when the elevator dropped too slowly and kept her in the fire...just some tidbits!
@@williambill5172 Buddy Ebson was originally cast as the Scarecrow (he was a song-and-dance man at the time) and Ray Bolger as the Tin Man, but Ray convinced Buddy and the powers that were to switch because his childhood idol had played the Scarecrow in the original stage production.
"That damn movie."
-- Buddy Ebson
The snow in the poppy field was actually asbestos. 😬
Exactly correct. Amazing how today's numbskulls don't understand that or appreciate the history of cinematography.
To be fair, children who saw Oz between the 50s and 70s also saw many "old" movies on the weekends when they were broadcast on the 4 or 5 stations (ABC, CBS, NBC, and a local station). We were exposed to black and white films, Westerns, bad monster movies, classic film noir - all of which now are played on TCM today. So we saw modern and classic films about the same time. Its strange now the present generation thinks that ET and Star Wars (I will never call it The New Hope) are classics. They are, but in the bigger cinema history, they mark a radical change (mass audiences for weeks) in attendance. Most films only stayed at theaters for a few weeks, then disappeared until huge hits starting showing up on broadcast TV and then video cassettes.
“Some people without a brain do an awful amount of talking.” This has to be one of my favorite all time quotes. I think that this could be applied to almost any politician.
That rivals "The ability to speak does not make one intelligent" from Qui-gon.
I remember my dad laughing at this and never getting it as a kid. Then years later watched in my 20's and then I realized how funny the line was.
I think the phrase was in reference to Adolf Hitler And Benito Mussolini, since at this time WWII had started between The UK, France, Germany, and Italy. Before that people in the US saw in News Papers and heard on the radio, the various speeches of the two Axis leaders. It's crazy to think there is this wholesome film, all the while in Europe one of the biggest wars ever is ramping up and slowly spreading across multiple nations around the world. The US was at peace and wasn't expecting to take part in the war in Europe.
@@My-Name-Isnt-Important or very possibly Neville Chamberlain as Great Britain’s Prime Minister he merely stood by while Hitler and Mussolini took over one country at a time. In my eyes he was just as bad as they were.
Frank Baums original Wizard of Oz book covered all manner of political and social aspects of the time, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_interpretations_of_The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz
"She's the original Karen" is probably my favorite reaction comment of all time. Love your reactions and your sense of humor.
Yep. Miss Gulch, the OG Karen. A Ms. Mojo poll also gave Miss Gulch that title; she was rated #1. Loved it!
For people my age (70), "The Wizard of Oz" was a major part of our childhood from watching it on TV once a year. For us, a number of the phrases from the soundtrack are permanently in our brains: "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", "Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!", "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!", "Toto too!", etc. It's hard to realize that most younger people haven't ever seen the movie at all.
When I was a kid this played once a year on TV, and was a big event every time. Really glad you watched this Cassie:)
i use to watch this once a year also with my great grandma and mom. When was this one for what holiday if you remember?
Every year on CBS around Easter time - when I was little I used to imagine that each year the actors would all come back, put their costumes back on and do it all over again.
Big TV events are something that I certainly miss . From the holiday specials to The Wizard Of Oz you would look forward to them for weeks for the one evening they played every year . Even things like the mini-series were a huge deal promoted for weeks ahead of time like Roots , V , The Thorn Birds , Shogun come to mind .
@@abbydabby475 Easter. In fact, comedian Paula Poundstone joked about movie reviews citing how reviewer called The Wizard of Oz "boring and unimaginative" when it first came out. She summed up by saying "So you never know. Maybe Rambo III is actually a great movie, and they'll show it every year at Easter!"
Seriously though, my family would all watch it together. We'd make non-microwave popcorn (and not eat it in bed), and my mom would make treats like baked apples or cherry turnovers.
Yep, every year CBS would show it. It WAS a TV event. All us kids would watch it. Usually on either Saturday or Sunday about 7pm! My little sister and I LOVED it. We're talking 1967 or so. The flying monkey's creeped us out, but the wicked witch was scary as Hell.
And Cassie got a Happy Ending!
Oh and the castle guards are singing: "All we are, we owe her"
For all of us growing up in the 60's & 70's, the annual airing of this movie was a big 'must see' TV event. I've lost count of how many times I've watched it - has always been one of my very favorites.
Yes, indeed! And I don't think it "scarred" us for life, as she mentioned! Lol! :)
In the 80’s too!
Yep, growing up in the 60's there was the annual showing on tv of Wizard of Oz and Peter Pan (not a film - the play starring Mary Martin). We watched them both every year and waited for them to air with great anticipation. It never scarred us - I think it stirred up our imaginations. Finally seeing Wizard of Oz on a big screen was a huge event for me, and I loved it even more. I just never tire of this movie!
They showed it on CBS in the 80s too every year.
@@TraceurDoc1was it both Wizard of Oz and Peter Pan that you saw regularly in the 80's? I had no idea either of those might still be airing annually!
Judy Garland was just an amazing actor and singer. And her daughter was Liza Minnelli, literally her acting and singing twin! She was perfectly cast in the ultimate RomCom, Arthur!!
She was perfectly cast in "Cabaret."
Liza is great, but Judy was spectacular.
She's not as well known, but Judy Garland's other daughter, Lorna Luft, also has a beautiful voice. She has mostly worked in theater, is an author, and has ventured into movies and television. She is probably best known for her role in Grease 2.
We watch it with my son when he was 6 and he loved it, his mind was blown. Now he’s 16, no emotional scars for the creepy parts, that’s some American sensibility thing. Kids are not fragile or dumb 😊
She's Canadian. It's beloved in the U.S. by generations. My grandma saw it in the theater when it came out in 1939 and though it was the greatest movie ever.
Cassie, they wrote, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" for The Wizard of Oz movie, which is such a timeless and iconic song.
Kids and adults for generations have grown up knowing it's amazing gift of making the world feel so much more simple.
To think that the MGM studio executives almost cut the song out of the movie because they thought it was too long.
It went on to win the Academy Award for best song.
Believe it or not, but it's true. ;-)
Such an awesome song. From that first octave rise it takes you to the relateable, but fantastic.
And, if memory serves, it was one of the songs in "You Got Mail"!
(By the way, Liza Minnelli is Judy Garland's daughter!)
@@stathissdz2125 If you want your mind blown. Check this out.
Judy Garland's daughter (LIZA MINNELLI) and The Tin Man's (Jack Haley) son Jack Haley Jr. got married sometime in the '1970s until their divorce in 1979.
Talk about lifetime friends and family.
@@stathissdz2125 I made another comment including Liza Minnelli
When I was a kid, they would air this movie on a certain day every year on the local television station. My mother always made it out to be like this holiday event for me and my brother. She would have popcorn popping on the stove, shake it up in brown paper grocery bag with butter and salt, and we would munch on it while the movie was playing. Those were wonderful times! 🙂
Same for me! It came on once a year and Mom would make us popcorn for it!
I'd forgotten that! Always around Thanksgiving if I remember right, it's been a long time, Long before movie rentals and cable and streaming, when your only choice was to watch what the 3 networks decided to show you.
That’s so wonderful and wholesome. Such a sweet childhood memory. Most of my memories of watching Wizard of Oz have to do with smoking drugs and listening to Pink Floyd.
Oh yes! It was most definitely an event when this would air on TV. Like you said, my mom would make the popcorn for us, and we’d all gather around the TV. I think it was CBS that would air this.
Folks born after the Bicentennial have no idea what it was like for kids in the late 60's to early 70's. Only 3 main channels, PBS and a couple of independent stations on the tube. Every Sunday it was the Wonderful World of Disney, every Easter it was the Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston, every Christmas they showed the Sound of Music and yes, the Wizard of Oz was shown once every year, I think in May. Nostalgic bliss.
“It’s a dream.”
In the book it’s not.
“Little kids?”
A mix of kids and little people
In the book the ruby slippers were actually silver. But the people making the movie wanted to continue using colors instead of anything that would hint back to the dull sepia and lack of color that silver would have done.
The book is insane.
The story behind the Timman is heartbreaking.
“Lion is creepy.”
I felt the same thing as well growing up. In the book he is always on all fours like a real lion and apparently really HUGE!
Fun fact: The costumers found the perfect coat for Professor Marvel in a rack of used clothes. In the pocket was a card -- L. Frank Baum. The author of the book. Seriously.
Speaking of costumes... another fun fact is the Lion costume was made out of real lion hide and it weighed 80 pounds. After a few days it reeked of sweat like dirty gym socks because the actor (Bert Lahr) would sweat profusely in it. They didn’t have AC in the studio and with all the lighting in there to emphasize the color ran inside temperatures over 100 degrees.
They found it at a rummage sale if I remember correctly
Mr Baum must have hated his first name, Lyman.
That right there, young lady, is Judy Garland, one of the world's most iconic voices ever. As a singer, I am awed and captivated by her amazing talent.
I agree! Such an amazing singer and just got better and better over the years! A great actress too! In addition to "Wizard of Oz," which I watched almost every year on TV reruns as a boy in the 1960's, I have three other "favorites" of hers -- "Harvey Girls," "Meet Me in St. Louis" (which I try to watch every Christmas season), and "Summer Stock" with the outstanding Gene Kelly!
@@johnbattles1002 Summer Stock is one of my favorites! Me and My Gal, an early one with Gene Kelly, is awesome, as well!
@@johnbrewer8024 , yes, I love Me and My Gal too! Gene Kelly was just an awesome, charismatic performer. He is also unmatched in Brigadoon, Singin' in the Rain, and as D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers (with June Allyson as his female co-star).
So is her daughter Liza Minnelli
Just think. She was only 16 with such a mature voice
When this came out you have to remember that most people had never seen a color movie. Mom said they were shocked when it went to color....It really seemed like Oz was magic.
When they first showed this on television, the told everyone that the beginning was in black and white and not to try to adjust their televisions.
That is really not true. Movies had been made in color for at least two deacades before 1939 when Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz debuted. They just weren't done particularly well. Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz debuted a three color process called Technicolor that provided vibrant colors that were a step beyond what had been seen.
The film was first shown on tv in 1956. Essentially no one owned a color tv then
And I'm pretty sure CBS didn't broadcast in color for about another decade
That’s because there wasn’t a color film until The Wizard of Oz. It was THE first color movie ever!!
About 25 years ago, when my daughter was young, The Wizard of Oz was released into theaters for a short run. We took her to see it. She was awestruck. Oh, and when I was in the 6th grade, I played the Scarecrow in our elementary school production of The Wizard of Oz. Sadly, there are no pictures that I can find of that experience. My dad, who was the family photographer, must have had to work that day.
The Wizard of Oz was released in 1939 and was the most beloved movie at the time and most watched movie in movie history. It was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning Best Original Song for "Over the Rainbow" and Best Original Score. The movie was apparently dangerous to make, and some cast members were injured in various ways, including the wicked witch and the flying monkeys. It was the most famous movie to use the new Technicolor film process - giving deep, bright and brilliant colors rarely seen in movies today. Technicolor was a very complex and expensive process to use, but made spectacular color movies. Many people can instantly detect what movies were made in technicolor by the deep quality of the color. It produced the finest color films made between 1917 and 1955 when studios stopped using it. No movies today can match the color of Technicolor. A much less expensive color process is used today in films.
I love how you kept calling The Good Witch "Linda" lol. Her name was Glinda.
The G is silent, like in gnome or Gnarnia.
And the Witch’s guards weren’t singing “Oreo,” they were singing “all we own, we owe her,” which was L. Frank Baum’s knock on the military establishment.
@@ChrystusBrzeczyszczykiewicz ...Except it was pronounced.
@@donsimpsonshead8809 I’ve always believed it was “Oh we loathe the old one” which explained why none of them were particularly upset when she died…
@@Cubs-Den-Reactions It's nothing like that. It is “O-Ee-Yah! Eoh-Ah!” in the script and that is clearly what they are chanting when you know it. It wasn't meant to have a meaning.
I remember one year when I was a kid my uncle watched this with us. When Dorothy sang Somewhere Over the Rainbow he told us when he was in the Army over in Europe they hated hearing that song on the radio because it reminded them of home and they didn't know if they would ever see home again.
I like moral this story tells. You always had what you wanted most and you just didn’t know it. The Wizard of Oz is without a doubt one of the greatest movies ever made and still remains 80 years later.
Judy Garland even now is such an understated singer. Her voice is so beautiful and pure. I love hearing her sing.
"She's like the original Karen!" Holy cow, you're right!
Made me lol
Yup, the original Loqueesha.
Although there were colored films released prior to the Wizard of Oz, this was the first one using Technicolor which displayed in extremely vibrant colors. It is said that when the transition from black and white to color occurred a lot of people gasped in the movie theatre because they had never seen anything like it.
Actually the 1935 Becky Sharp was the first full-length 3-strip Technicolor film 4 years prior...but it was still not commonly used and yes, I'm sure this had a strong impact on audiences as you described. This same year, 1939, the same director, Victor Fleming, directed the Technicolor Gone With the Wind.
@@davidfox5383 Didn't know that. Maybe it was because the Technicolor footage for Becky Sharp wasn't available for viewing again until it was restored in the 1980s.
A meta way to understand the transition shot where Dorothy walks into Oz, is to imagine it is the difference between earth and heaven. It's implied onscreen that Dorothy didn't know what color was, until she saw Munchkinland. Likewise, there could be things beyond color, that we can't see or comprehend until we step into a higher plane of existence.
@@davidfox5383 Also the previous year there was the Adventures of Robin Hood.
@@robhugh535 yes, one of my favorites!
The good witch (a conflation of two witches from the book by Baum) is Glinda, not Lynda.
The flowers growing up from the front of some munchkins shoes was used for some Blue Meanies in Yellow Submarine.
Margaret Hamilton/Wicked Witch was actually a sweet grade school teacher.
The "snow" in the poppy field was actually asbestos (done before they knew the danger of it).
This story was my daughter's LIFE from 1.5 years old to around 10. She watched it every day, always asked for Oz themed things for her birthday, it was the first stage play she sat through aged 3, and every weekend, we'd play make believe with her being Dorothy and me being...well everyone else! We went to see Oz the Great and Powerful at the movies and although it's nowhere near as good, we loved that too, the first new Oz movie that resembled the Judy Garland original in decades. I don't think I'll ever tire of watching this movie, as there are so many happy memories attached to it.
Dorothy missed Kansas so much that she did it all for getting back there. Meanwhile, Toto missed the rains down in Africa
The ruby/red slippers that Judy Garland wore in the film are now considered a national US treasure.
They were anonymously donated to the Smithsonian museum in 1979.
The attraction is so popular that the carpet on the walkway surrounding the shoes has to be constantly replaced due to visitors' wear and tear.
There were actually 6 pairs made for the film. The Smithsonian pair are only one of 6. 3 of the pairs are in private collections. One pair was stolen. One pair was also in Debbie Reynolds (Carrie Fisher's mother)private collection.
@@bobroma Yep for sure. I remember hearing about the 6 pairs on set. I didn't want to get into all that detail in my comment. Comments on CZcams are best when they are short and sweet. Then the relpies can get into more detail.
Thanks for starting the converstation.
@@lethaldose2000Absolutely, I agree with you about the comments here. I just get excited about Wizard of Oz trivia because I have studied quite a bit of it.
Here’s some more trivia about the slippers.
In the original 1900 book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (yes, you read that right: the book was already 39 years old when the movie first premiered), the Wicked Witch of the East had silver slippers. But due to camera issues with reflective material (see also C-3PO from Star Wars and Peacemaker from The Suicide Squad), they were changed to ruby red.
You would think that they would have had the floor at the exhibit paved with yellow bricks.
I had seen this many times before I realized that all of the characters she encounters in OZ are foreshadowed in the B&W opening sequence.
The lion is actually my most favorite of Dorothy's 3 OZ companions. He is so goofy and nutty, even when he tries hard to be scary.
He is honestly.
For many Americans, this was the first color movie they ever saw. I can only imagine the collective gasp when the movie switched to color.
Well The Adventures of Robin Hood was a HUGE box office success and came out a year before this. But yeah it was still newish for a feature film.
just imagine a young unsafisticated child seeing this in a theater,not knowing about acting and cameras taking this as a real thing.................wow.
@@arnoldzyphill3167 lol what
@@Marckymarc71 most of us growing up when this film was aired originally only had black and white tv's, so we had no idea the majority of the picture was in color. I recall the first time I saw it on a color tv, I was in high school so this was 1969 (dating myself here, but oh well), I was blown away when Dorothy landed in Oz, opened the door and the entire screen was in color! It was like seeing the film for the very first time. It has never lost its charm for me.
1939 was the best year ever for movies ... starting with Gone with the Wind.
The Wizard of Oz takes me immediately back to my childhood, watching the annual broadcast on TV. In 1964, we did not have a color TV, but we went to my cousins house who did have it. The magical burst of color that we experienced watching Dorothy open the door to Munchkin land is a memory that will always stay with me. Cassie, I hope this movie was magical for you too!
Same here, it took one of my cousins almost getting hit by a car trying to get across the street to watch it and color before my grandmother bought a color TV.
Yep... this film and Sound of Music were annual must watches for my family.
I think this was the first movie in Technicolor. A process that accurately reproduced color on film. It's a very very expensive process to use at the time. I know there were other color films but the colors don't look correct. So to audiences, this was amazing.
I saw it in the theater when it came out
Imagine what that scene was like for people seeing it in the theater for the first time in 1939. Must have been a true mind blower.
“I don’t like the fiery alien in the sky bit.” I’m dead.
(Here is the final chapter of the book)
Aunt Em had just come out of the house to water the cabbages when she looked up and saw Dorothy running toward her.
“My darling child!” she cried, folding the little girl in her arms and covering her face with kisses. “Where in the world did you come from?”
“From the Land of Oz,” said Dorothy gravely. “And here is Toto, too. And oh, Aunt Em! I’m so glad to be at home again!”
Fun fact: The woman who played the witch, Margaret Hamilton, was a well-loved actress with a wonderful personality and a great sense of humor.
Yes, and her trademark was to sign her Autographs by Margaret Hamilton WWW (Wicked Witch of the West)
@@iwatchyoutube6539 so true!
Margaret Hamilton was also a Kindergarten teacher in Cleveland, Ohio, before she got into acting. I found that out about 50 years ago! ( I am 75 now) I was pleasantly surprised by that information because I was born and raised in Cleveland too until I started teaching Kindgergarten in Michigan for 2 years. After living in two other places, I came back home to Cleveland in '98 and am still here.
Loved her in the Gazebo with Glen Ford & Debbie Reynolds.
She was also much kinder to Judy than others in the cast.
1.)"Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!"
2)."Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain"
3.)"I don't think we're in Kansas anymore"
4.)"There's no place like home"
These have all become part of the American lexicon over the last 80 years.
Robin Williams in Good Morning Vietnam. " ooo eeee ooo, Follow the Ho Chi Minh Trail."
I don't know why people think this is such a great movie, it's just a bunch of cliches strung together.
@@jb888888888 These 'cliches' were born from this movie.
They weren't cliches before this movie.
For our family, it’s all of those, plus “Poppies, sleep, poison…”
Ten years ago I had the privilege of acting in a local theater group's production of this. I had the title role and was also Professor Marvel. Local kids played all the munchkins. A high school girl with a really good voice played Dorothy. I never had so much fun and can still recite most of the dialogue along with the movie. What an experience!
The point of the final scene with OZ where he gives them diplomas and whatnot, is that they already had Brains, Courage and Heart. They proved it through helping Dorothy in her quest. He's giving them the official "certifications".
Dear Popcorn in Bed, try to imagine having to wait til this is televised to watch it. When I was growing up, once a year, here in Ks., this came on t.v. We subscribed to the "TV GUIDE" and would wait and wait and wait for it. We'd get all our chores done, one of us would pop "Jiffypop" popcorn (a tiny aluminum pan, containing popcorn & oil, with pleated aluminum foil covering, that expanded when it popped, I still find it in some stores. You put this on the stove and shook it back and forth to keep it from burning. We'd get our baths out of the way, grab our pillows and we all took the floor space in front of our "console" television set. For the next 2 hrs, my folks didn't have to tell anybody to pipe down, lol! (with 5 kids that was rare!). There is something to be said for delayed gratification. It was a "treat". Great job. Thank you.
"There is something to be said for delayed gratification." Wise words indeed. I think we could all use a bit more of that in todays "push-button" world.
I haven't seen this pointed out...but when Dorothy says something like "I feel like I've known you all along", she means it. Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion are each characters from her farm in Kansas...the same actors... and as Oz characters they exhibit the same personalities and speech patterns as the farmhands.
Oh my goodness! You just described me and my 1960's northwest Georgia upbringing! Almost the very same yearly Wizard of Oz scenario!
Same at our house but you forgot the coke which was a treat you only got on occasion!
@@kathleenclark815 Yes, I'm sure it's clear to most people that the "Oz characters" are echoes of the "Kansas characters." I'm just surprised that I've never heard or read any reference to it.
There's a scarecrow, a lion and a skinless terminator.
Wizard of Oz is not the first colour movie, but was the first to really show it in a big film, in a way that showed how it could be used to great effect. Absolutely amazing that the real world starts out in a monochrome brown and morphs into a full colour Oz. It must have blown people's minds.
I’ve always wondered if the scarecrow getting the Pythagorean theorem wrong was on purpose.
Interesting, I hadn't realized that. Up to then he got everything right. Could they maybe be saying that diplomas can mess you up?
Yeah, Scarecrow says, “The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side.” The Pythagorean Theorem states: “The sum of the squares of the legs of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse.” So the possibilities are:
1. The writers just got it wrong.
2. Maybe it was in the script right but the actor said it wrong.
3. The writers purposefully misstated it: to underscore anyone can *sound* smart but that doesn’t make them smart (and the difference can be hard to detect.)
4. Others…? 🤔
@@charlie.on.youtube I would lean toward some kind of deliberate joke thing going on. That's a very subtle script.
@@OnePost909 agreed!
"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain" is one of the funniest lines in movies. It makes me laugh every time.
Wizard of Oz wasn’t just a story, it was like a 20 book series that was wildly popular. Good libraries still have the whole series on their shelves.
Baum only wrote 14.
@@marctoad Good to know, I never read them all and wasn’t sure of the number.
@@marctoad A female author took over after that and wrote some more. I can't remember her name.
@@porflepopnecker4376 Ruth Plumly Thompson. I believe she was Baum's daughter or daughter in law.
They are ridiculously fun reads. He wrote the first one and got so many letters from kids and adults asking for more adventures or even suggesting ideas for them that he wrote more, often using ideas from his readers.
This film will always have a special place in my heart. I was born in 86 so grew up in the 90s and obviously back then we had VHS tapes. There was a guy who used to rent videos out of his van the van was filled from top to bottom with VHS tapes. Every saturday night he would park up and families from the neighbourhood would rent movies. It was £1 per video and he would come back on Sunday to collect them. Every single week I chose 'The wizard of Oz" I watched it over and over again I just loved it, I literally never chose any other movie, every single week without fail it was " The wizard of Oz" and I will always remember one sunday when I was returning the tape the guy just handed it back to me and said " you can keep this sweetheart since you love it so much". ,Its a childhood memory that I will always remember 💕
That's a great story! It seems particularly fitting for this movie.(And he probably figured you were wearing it out, anyway. 😄)
Aww... You almost made me cry. 🙂
How sweet!
I’ve always loved this film ever since I was a kid and that may be 2 1/2 years and on!!! I’m going to be 57 next month. However it’s so AWESOME to see someone’s reaction as an adult watching it for the very first time today!!! Kudos to you!!! It’s a beautiful story and still makes me cry at the end. Margaret Hamilton as the Witch was such a sweet loving lady throughout her whole life that even the actors in the film had a difficult time acting frightened because they knew who she really was. But it was so gruelingly uncomfortable to be acting in such heavy make up & costumes yet made it look so effortless and made the movie come alive. I young Judy Garland at age16 awesomely believable in her character, won her an Oscar for best juvenile performance in 1939
When I was 3 years old, my mom said I fell in love with this movie. She said I used to pretend I was Dorothy and wouldn't answer to my real name - plus I had a pretend Toro that had to be held out the car window to go potty.
I still love this movie today and have shown it to all my kids.
The movie treats the whole episode as a dream. In the books, Oz was a real place to which Dorothy traveled. Later in the series, she moved there permanently along with Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. She became a princess of Oz. Glenda was the witch of the south. It was the witch of the north that sent Dorothy on her way to the Emerald City. The tin man began life as a normal man but he kept having accidents with his axe. Every time he chopped something off, the tinsmith would replace it with tin until there was no meat left. In a later book, it came out that his axe had been enchanted by an evil witch. The books were my favorites as a child and I read them over and over.
Me too
Yay! Another Oz Books fan!
We read the entire series to the kids when they were young. They loved it!
The books are great.
I would even say they may be the first epic fantasy series.
The Tin Woodman in the books is a pretty interesting character.
My husband is from a tiny little town in Kansas that has FULLY embraced the Oz theme. Their water tower is painted like a hot air balloon, they have a yellow brick road, the city park is called Emerald City Pkayground, they have the Oz Museum, and the local stores are places like Oz Winery and Emerald Door Salon. Every October they have Oztoberfest. They go all out. It’s very cute.
I wonder if Cassie has ever seen Judy Garland in any thing else? Meet Me In St. Louis is one I would LOVE to see her react to 💕
Wamego.
Do they do regional productions of Wicked?
@@DRC16690 yep
I must go there.
Like Grover's Mill New Jersey embracing their fame as the landing point for the Martians in the radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds. I was once taking a computer course in nearby Elizabeth, New Jersey in an office building that was still under construction, and I said to one of the workers: "Nice job of building it back after the Martians destroyed it...." and he grinned and said, "Thanks!" He knew exactly what I meant.
Growing up, The Wizard of Oz used to come on TV every year, it was a treat. The movie is sort of tinged a little with sadness for how Judy Garland (Dorothy) ended up. p.s. Liza Minelli, if you've heard of her is Judy Garland's daughter.
Fun fact! There was a scrapped ending, where the boy representing the scarecrow is going to join either school or the military and he asked Dorothy to write to him, implying a more romantic development between them❤️
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and the other songs were all written for this movie. Frank Morgan, who played the Wizard of Oz and Professor Marvel, also played three other roles. One of them was the Doorman who screamed, "Who rang that bell?!" If you want to see more of the early days of Technicolor, you might be interested to watch "Gone with the Wind" (which also came out in 1939).
Same director made both films
"The Wizard of OZ" and "Gone with the Wind" were filmed on the same lot at the same time.
Yes
And don't miss these Technicolor gems...The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Meet Me In St. Louis (1944), She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949),The Quiet Man (1952) and Shane (1953).
@@thomast8539 "Black Swan" (1940), pirate swashbuckler with Tyrone Power was also shot in Technicolor.
This film is considered the greatest achievement in cinematic history, which even to this day, and all of our technology has not been rivaled. I think I tend to agree.
And Citizen Kane.
@@BenDowdy and The Godfather
@@dostoyevski9423 And Lawrence Of Arabia
@@rabbitandcrow and Star Wars
Actually Citizen Kane is considered to be the greatest achievement in film history.
You thinking that Glinda is callled Linda, has nearly killed me haha
I first saw this movie as a child back in the early 70s. 50 years later, it's still one of my favorite movies, and I still watch it whenever I get the chance.
You should definitely watch “It’s a wonderful life” if you haven’t seen that. Especially around Christmas time!
I agree completely. It's a classic that everyone should see, multiple times IMO. It is a wonderful WONDERFUL movie! Don't forget the Kleenex. I've seen this movie maybe 50 times, and it still makes me cry at the end every time.
Yes...and "Miracle on 34th Street".
To be clear when I said I cry at the end of the movie every time, I am speaking about HAPPY tears. I don't want anyone to think that the movie has a sad ending. It's just the opposite, the movie has a very happy and satisfying ending.
@@bobbilm3035 yes it is the number 1 cry movie for me.
@@bobbilm3035 absolutely. Incredible movie
Best line: "Oh my gosh! Kids watch this!"
The flying monkeys terrified me when I was a kid. 😁 (Used to have nightmares! 🤣)
This used to be on annually back in the 1970s.
This, and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". Please do that one next! 🙂
And now THAT song is stuck in my head too.
I never liked the movie when I was a child or as an adult but I always thought it was funny that it was the flying monkeys that terrified people. They didn't phase me, nor did the witch. The Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion freaked me out. Basically, I've never liked clowns and that's what they all reminded me of.
I tried to show parts of this to my 5 year old nephew and he doesn't like the witch and the monkeys at all 😆
@@JulioLeonFandinho I grew up in the 70's before the VCR and couldn't wait to watch this (and the 'Sound of Music' and 'Rudolph' and 'Frosty' and Charlie Brown Christmas) when they were on once a year.... I showed this (and the 80's version of 'Annie) to my 13 year old on dvd when she was 2 and she watched them about 500 times each and memorized and sang all the songs over and over again... my mom (her grandma) is still afraid of the flying monkeys though.
This movie has been tested out as one of the scariest movies for kids ever made.
When I was young, growing up, before cable when there were 3 TV stations, this came on once a year and I watched every year for years, even after I was an adult. Such a great movie!!!
The chimney sweep in 'Mary Poppins,' Dick Van Dyke, was asked if there was any character in movies he would've loved to play. His response was 'The Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz.'
The Death Star scene in Star Wars when Luke and Han disguised themselves as stormtroopers was an homage to the Witch’s castle scene.
The entire structure of A New Hope is based on Wizard of Oz, especially the way that Dorothy and Luke pick up allies along their journey.
Oh! Never noticed that.
@@Rocket1377 That and some Akira Kurosawa movies
@@coyotefever105 Specifically Hidden Fortress (1958). A samurai warrior and some others escort a princess. The parts of R2 and 3P0 are taken by a pair of Japanese peasants that barely get along.
@@Rocket1377 not the entire structure, but yes, many elements of it are there, as well as elements from the film The Searchers.
Someone once asked for a list of movies you've seen 10 times, and I came up with all of my standards (Pulp Fiction, Princess Bride, Star Wars). And then it hit me that "Wizard of Oz" and "The Ten Commandments" were probably easily on this list because in the day and age before Blu-Ray, before DVD, before VHS, before more than 4 network channels, we tuned in every Easter to watch these films.
It's a huge generation gap for me to process that this isn't the case for the newer generations. I guess they do mange to get "A Christmas Story" replayed for them traditionally though.
Yes. I don't know how she could not have seen those movies.
The four staples are Wizard of Oz (played 4 times a year). Ten Commandments (played every Easter and Christmas)
Sound of Music (played every other holiday not named Christmas or Easter)
and of course Miracle on 34 st (played every friggin Christmas)
Inconceivable!
@@lethaldose2000 Even as somebody that's seen tons of movies and has thousands, I haven't watched The Sound of Music or Miracle on 34th Street. I own them both but never got to them.
Other movies from my childhood on that list would be Ben Hur, Spartacus. Barabus, King Kong. March of the Wooden Soldiers. King King and March of the Wooden Soldiers would come on the day after Thanksgiving and that meant CHRISTMAS! LOL. Oh and how could I forget. Jason and the Argonauts. That was must see tv for me.
@@r.h.3084 Sound of Music always bored me to tears. Miracle on 34th Street I loved. Though I love, It's a Wonderful Life and any of the Scrooges(A Christmas Carol) better.
A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others is such a powerful statement, observation and truth ❤
"Linda, the Good Witch" 😂 Cracked me up.
A great Liza Minnelli movie is, "Arthur". 😁
7:00 The way they did this transition from black & white to color was really clever. It just wasn't possible to have black & white and color film in the same film strip. The entire scene was actually filmed in color. The Dorthey who opens the door isn't Judy Garland, it's a stunt double wearing a black and white dress. Everything inside the room is colored shades of grey to make it look like a black and white picture. Then she opens the door and steps out of frame. Then Judy Garland steps into frame wearing a normally colored dress.
This was the first feature film filmed in color.
Not counting earlier films in two-strip Technicolor, such as "Mystery of the Wax Museum" and "Doctor X."
Technically, the bookended Kansas setting was shot in sepia tones, which gave it a brownish tint, rather than black & white.
@@rickardroach9075
Yep, the first Technicolor feature was made 22 years before Wizard of Oz.
Not quite the first movie. I believe the first movie in color was Becky Sharp
Two-strip Technicolor, which had a distinct teal-magenta cast to it with no yellows, was introduced many years earlier. The first full-length feature film in the more accurate 3-strip Technicolor was Becky Sharp in 1935, four years before Oz.
My Grandfather once told me how when he was a young man he saw this film in theaters for the first time and it was the first film he'd ever seen in color. This movie was packed nearly every show for months while it was out in theaters because there was no other like it. What it must have been like to see this on the big screen for the first time.
This was only the second Technicolor film made. The fist was The Adventures of Robin Hood.
that it had such an amazing transition shot made it all the sweeter
Growing up in the sixties one of. The three networks would show it one Sunday evening a year. Mom would make popcorn balls. We would have celery sticks with peanut butter and that cheese that you spray out of a can. Dad would churn homemade ice cream and we would watch the movie and it was such a big deal. My younger brother and I would scream in terror and laugh. Such a wonderful simple life. I just turned seventy and both my parents and younger brother are gone. Such wonderful memories. Thank you for showing this
I watched this every year on TV as a child growing up in the sixties. The first five times I watched it was on a black-and-white television. Imagine my surprise when we finally got a color television!
The biggest thing about this movie, that you touched on while watching, were the "pop culture" things that you've probably heard all your life, but never knew where they were from. Loads of movies reference this movie because of it's iconic nature.
This was the “Star Wars” of the 1940s - the bright sets, the action, magic, the strange creatures and monsters, heroes, loyal friends and a hissable villain.
Considering how old and well1known the source material was at the time, it not going too far to state that this was the Lord of the Rings of 1939.
Dorothy > Princess Leia, Toto > R2D2, Tin man > C3PO, Lion > Chewbacca , Wizard > Obi -Wan , Wicked Witch > Darth Vader ( maybe young George also had a dream ;-)
The Wizard of Oz's release was more recent to Star Wars' release than Star Wars' release is to today.
@@Raja1938 Oh my.... I didn't realize this! Just yesterday I learned that Cleopatra's life was closer to today than her life was to the building of the Pyramids!
@@MadMax-pu1kj Ah, didn't know that one. I'd read these time-is-relative factoids somewhere years ago. Another is that Wright Bros first flight was closer to the moon landing than the moon landing is to today.
This movie inspired all those other things you mentioned.
The vivid colors and effects were cutting edge technology.
I saw it as a young kid and the flying monkeys and witch scared me to death!!!!!
I never could understand why anyone would want to go home to that dreary place. I would have stayed in Oz forever and never looked back!!!
This movie was huge.
If you haven’t seen gone with the wind, that was an enormous hit too.
Both movies were best selling books first.
And it’s Glenda or Glinda.
In the books, she’s Glinda, so I’m gonna go with that.
The story of how the tornado twister was created is a lesson in resourcefulness for future set designers.
The good witch is "Glinda" not Linda. Professor Marvel was also the Oz gatekeeper, the horse carriage driver, the Oz doorman & the Wizard, all played by Frank Morgan.
Fun fact about early cinema: a lot of actors and director mindsets were still grounded in theater. You can find a lot of similarities with the way lines are delivered, the over the top expressions and the pacing of the stories.
Being one of the first movies with color and hearing the actors, I imagine there was also still a bit of influence from silent films where large facial expressions and movement helped convey a scene. While other films had been colorized, this one had a huge impact on the future of movies. A great movie to showcase their new coloring technology and what a brilliant way they used it to bring the magical world alive, the world at the end of the rainbow.
@@Quirkyalonester Oh absolutely! It really was a wild time in history regarding film.
Why is it fun?
Yep, so true...and, even the way sets were assembled. Stagecoach (1939) is a western cult classic, but there are a couple of scenes where the banker comes off a bit cartoonish on camera.
Naturalistic acting didn't really appear until until Marlon Brando's generation.
One of the greatest "what-if" moments in film history occurred with this film - Jack Haley, who played the Tin Man, only got the part because the original actor, Buddy Ebsen, had an allergic reaction to the makeup.
He was about 30 years old at the time, but people these days might still know him from reruns of The Beverly Hillbillies t.v. show (which was filmed about 35 years later), where he played patriarch Jed Clampett.
I mentioned it in my post, Epsen was chosen due to the fact he had worked with Garland doing song and dance sequences in other films and was comfortable working with him.
And Jack was excellent...but don't stop now...go on...tell Cassie that Buddy went on to play Jed Clampett on the Beverly Hillbillies, a TV detective and supported Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Just think in 1939 how exciting it was for children to see a black and white movie turn to glorious color for the first time. What a thrill. 11-4-2021
Fun fact: the witch makeup had copper in it and during one take where she disappeared in Munchkinland, the fire caught on the makeup and she wound up with 2nd and 3rd degree burns on her hands and face.
This film had incredible visuals and special effects for its time. The shot where Dorothy steps from the monochrome house, and into the technicolour land of Oz, always impresses me.
Right? This was done practically too. They painted the door and the walls around with same brown-ish colours we saw throughout the previously portion of the film, and used Dorothy's double wearing a brown dress. A brilliant simplicity!
I don't think Cassie realizes how much effort and thought it took to create effects pre 1970. Everything you see had to be practically done. No fix it later on the computer. Heck the only computer in existence was counting bullets for the U.S. Army during WW2. That computer was the size of a house and could only compute at 1/100 the speed of an iphone.
Oh how times have changed.
The richness of Technicolor cannot be reproduced today. This film if made using CGI would be a shallow exercise
The tornado effect was also very impressive, and still holds up pretty well today.
@@michaelwalsh1035 I love this comment. With everything you can do in movies today, they can't do the color like this anymore, and there's nothing like Technicolor! If there was a movie done today that could accomplish this, I would be beyond impressed. Sadly the color in the movies today don't pop. They're drab.
"She makes friends easily."
Yes, Dorothy has a lot of friends.☺
Alice in Wonderland: Wait? What am I? Chopped liver?
The history of 'Friend of Dorothy' was really interesting to read. Thanks!
they occasionally will play this in a theater and .. even today, in the dark..huge up on screen..the tornado..the monkeys..the witch face and the first scene in oz are pretty overwhelming
Scarecrow has always been my favorite as well! His chemistry with Dorothy being the sweetest and probably most memorable was definitely helped by the fact that Ray Bolger (Scarecrow's/Hunk's actor) was like a father-figure/guardian to Judy Garland on set! It was said he felt the need to protect her when they first met!
There was an incident where one of the light fixtures above them burst and Ray (while in his flammable Scarecrow costume) shielded Judy from the sparks!
The "I think I'll miss you most" line Dorothy says to Scarecrow was a leftover from the scrapped plotline where Judy and Hunk had a romance. Thankfully that was cut since Dorothy is supposed to be 12 and Hunk is presumably the same age as Ray was at the time, 34/35.
Laughed out loud at "Is she going to get in trouble from the Farmer of Oz?" 😂
That character was cut from the final edit of this film.
I doubt Boq (the Munchkin at whose house Dorothy slept at before continuing her journey) would've minded. In both L. Frank Baum's _The Wonderful Wizard of OZ_ book & the 1995 _Wicked_ novel, he's the farmer whom Scarecrow came from. However, in the 2003 _Wicked_ musical, Boq (and NOT Nick Chopper, ala the source material) became the Tin Man after being transformed by the Wicked Witch sisters ("Nessarose" [East] & "Elphaba" [West]).
This movie is the epitome of a classic. Whenever I’m on a hike with my family, we all sing “Lions & tigers & bears! Oh my!”
"KIDS watch this!"
Damn right they do. 😁 I must've seen The Wizard of Oz and The Wiz dozens of times each since I was about 5 or 6 years old. But yeah, good, wholesome reaction to one of the all-time classics. I'm pretty sure this and Gone With the Wind were the first feature-length films to be shown in color this extensively.
Here's a fun fact: a few of the extras that played Munchkins and Judy Garland's (Dorothy) dance stand-in Caren Marsh Doll are still living to this day, over eighty years after the film came out. In fact, Caren is _104_ years old now.
Edit: Apparently, I was _way_ off with the color film thing. There were dozens of films that used at least some color before Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz. Around a third of those films are thought to be lost, though (meaning no known surviving prints of them exist).
"He looks like a green Megamind." Thanks, I'm never going to get that image out of my head now.
“Only bad witches are ugly”
When why did you ask her! Damn, Glinda was throwing shade before shade was even a thing.
Ah -- but, even if only bad witches are ugly, that doesn't necessarily mean that beautiful witches are always good. You might end up with beautiful bad witches, too!
And I don't even consider Glinda to be especially attractive in her own right.
@@bigdream_dreambig There are beautiful good and bad witches...Samantha was all good, but her sister Serena...she was the definitive pot-stirrer.
16:45 "It doesn't work on them?" You are correct; it was explained in the book that the movie was based on. Because the tin man and the scarecrow are not living creatures like Toto, Dorothy, and the Lion, they were not affected by the poppies. Tin and straw are not affected.
I like that touch (the poppies don't affect the non-biologicals in Dorothy's group).
Tin Man and Scarecrow are basically magically animated creatures.
@@Cheepchipsable Though in the books, wasn't the Tin Man originally human?
Poppies=heroin snow=coke
"was it huge to have this in colour?" It was. My dad saw it when it came out (he was six) and he remembered the whole audience going "whoa!" at the colour reveal. No-one there had seen a colour film.
My own reaction when i saw this first time on color tv, as a child we only had Black and White...
52 years old and when I was 4 my mom took me to the Foxx Theatre in Atlanta to see the Wizard of Oz. She said I cried and was scared of the witch . Lol We still watch it every year.