The Wizard of Oz...1939

[asaratis]

...now showing on TCM.

It's appears to be in sepia tone (the reddish version of black and white) and uses a lot of painted background scenery.

It's amazing that Dorothy can fall into a pig pen and come out with a clean dress.


More to follow.

 

[asaratis]

Oh no! It's a musical!

I forgot...it's Judy Garland playing Dorothy.

 

[Mr Natural]

Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon supposedly syncs up with The Wizard of Oz somehow.

 

[asaratis]

Toto wouldn't bite a flea!

 

[asaratis]

Toto escapes the basket of Almira Gulch and returns home. Dorothy and Toto run away with a suitcase and picnic basket...run into Professor...runs home in a tornadic storm...

 

[asaratis]

...enters the house instead of the storm cellar...gets knock out by a flying window..the house gets sucked up into the air..chickens (in the coop) fly by...then a cow,,then two men in a rowboat..then the Witch Gulch..

 

[asaratis]

...then the house lands...and COLOR comes to the screen...the Yellow Brick Road, flowers, a walk bridge...a little village of round, thatched roof huts..and a purple bubble...They must not be in Kansas...

 

[asaratis]

...Witch Gulch was under the house from Kansas...and the Munchins wear funnt little shoes...and gather at the spiral end of the Yellow Brick Road..

 

[asaratis]

Ding Dong the Witch is Dead

 

[asaratis]

Along comes the Wicked Witch of the West...and now she must follow the Yellow Brick road...in her ruby red slippers...off to see the Wizard ...in the Emerald City..

 

[asaratis]

...at a fork, meets the original Straw Man..with no brain...

 

[asaratis]

...they take the right fork...to the apple tree...the one that talks...and meet the rusted Tin Man who promptly begs for oil...and has no heart....

 

[asaratis]

Sorry! This is just too boring to endure!