Hey guys! I know most songs in the movie are cut out. It took 3 re-edits and over a month of copyright disputes to get it uploaded. Anything more than 3-4 seconds of music gets instantly copyrighted by the algorithm...
@jamessullivan4391
2 жыл бұрын
Well then fuck 'em!
@CptApplestrudl
2 жыл бұрын
How about a Charly Chaplin movie like "the great dictator"?
@rafaelrosario5331
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for all the hard work.
@maximillianosaben
2 жыл бұрын
Considering just about everyone else has seen this movie already, we all know the songs anyhow. Thank you for the video! You're an awesome gentleman.
@lawrencewestby9229
2 жыл бұрын
This movie will enter the public domain in 2034. The original book and several others in the series are already in the public domain. Thanks for your efforts to get your review up on KZitem.
@Serai3
2 жыл бұрын
Margaret Hamilton was a lovely, gentle woman. She was so concerned about the way the Witch scared children that she eventually went on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, bringing along her costume, and demonstrated getting dressed, all the while talking about it so the kids watching could see the Witch was not a real person, but just a character for an actor.
@Kainlarsen
2 жыл бұрын
Awww, that's really sweet of her! I always feel bad for actors who play iconically bad characters, they always seem to get a lot of hate mail or bad feeling; Mr.T's mother was really upset with him when he played Clubber Lang in Rocky III, because of the way the character disrespected Adrian.
@Serai3
2 жыл бұрын
@@Kainlarsen It's ironic because most actors will tell you it's way more fun to play a bad guy than a good guy.
@biguy617
2 жыл бұрын
She got burned by the fire effects they used in the movie
@shotgunnerB
2 жыл бұрын
Yes. She was burned very badly, also. BUDDY Epsin was hired to play the timing, but almost died because he was allergic to the make up!
@chaospoet
2 жыл бұрын
I remember that episode!
@jaytrace1006
2 жыл бұрын
I’m sure someone mentioned this, but when I was a kid, before VHS tapes and cable, this movie played on tv once a year, and it was an EVENT! Such a wonderful film…
@davidq.5488
2 жыл бұрын
And when it was on, then and today, you just knew everyone else was watching it at the same time, as if the world is the movie theater.
@richelliott9320
2 жыл бұрын
When we got a color tv several friends came over to watch this.
@gdb2db
2 жыл бұрын
It was a big event, once a year! Eventually watched it on a color tv. Which was somewhat primitive by today's standards. But still a magical movie for me in the early 60's.
@lindanicholson950
2 жыл бұрын
And Peter Pan with Mary Martin playing the lead. More great songs.
@JoseyWales44s
Жыл бұрын
It always played on Thanksgiving Day on CBS. It was an event and it is where the movie became a timeless classic. It did not do particularly well when it was originaly released, much like "It's a Wonderful Life".
@Jeff_Lichtman
2 жыл бұрын
Technicolor is actually an old technology that was invented in the silent era. It used a special camera with a beam splitter that divided the image into three beams that went through three colored filters: one red, one green, and one blue. The filtered images were focused onto three black and white film strips. When they made a print, they would use the black and white negatives to make a single color print using a complex dye transfer process. It was complicated and expensive, but it produced great results. One advantage of Technicolor is that the colors in the negatives don't fade, because they don't have any dyes in them (black and white doesn't fade over time the way color does). A side note: the original Technicolor process used only two negatives, one with a red filter and one with a green filter-the viewer's brain would fill in the blue color. I once saw the silent movie The Black Pirate with Douglas Fairbanks that used the two-color Technicolor process, and I thought it worked pretty well. The tornado was achieved with a long, twisted piece of muslin cloth. Director Victor Fleming and the wardrobe department picked out a coat for actor Frank Morgan to wear as the Wizard. One day Morgan turned one of the pockets inside-out and discovered a label that said the coat had been made for L. Frank Baum, author of the Oz books. They originally wanted to cast Shirley Temple as Dorothy. It would have been an entirely different movie. Temple was typecast as a cute little kid. Also, Garland was a much better singer than Temple. They originally cast Buddy Ebsen as The Tin Man, but he had to quit because he had an allergic reaction to the silver makeup, so they got Jack Haley instead. Ebsen is best known today as Jed Clampett of The Beverly Hillbillies. Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West, was a kind woman who loved children. It bothered her that children were afraid of her after this movie came out. Mr. Rogers once had her on his show so she could explain to children that it was all just make-believe, and that they shouldn't be afraid of witches. The actors who played the Munchkins were from Europe. Many were Jewish, and they stayed in the U.S. rather than return to Nazi Germany. The horses in Emerald City were colored with Jell-O mix. They had to shoot the scenes quickly before the horses licked it off. Margaret Hamilton was badly burned in one of the stunts in this movie, and she refused to do any more stunts like it for the rest of the filming. The "snow" in the poppy field was made from asbestos. Toto got $125 a week. The Munchkins each only got $50 a week. Yip Harburg wrote the lyrics to all the songs, and Harold Arlen wrote the music. Both wrote a large number of other songs, and wrote some together apart from Wizard of Oz, including It's Only a Paper Moon. They'd have worked more together, except that Harburg drove Arlen crazy with his political opinions. Harburg was a socialist. It's not that Arlen disagreed with Harburg, but that Harburg wouldn't shut up about it. Harburg also wrote: April in Paris Brother Can You Spare a Dime? Arlen is considered one of the all-time great American songwriters - some of his best are Accentuate the Positive Come Rain or Come Shine Get Happy I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) Stormy Weather That Old Black Magic. The song Over the Rainbow was almost cut from the movie. It's a slow number, and they thought the movie was too long. Fortunately, they left it in. Otherwise it would have been lost to history. In 2004 the American Film Institute ranked it #1 in their list of 100 Greatest Songs in American Films. It was also named The Song of the Century by the National Endowment for the Arts.
@billolsen4360
2 жыл бұрын
Never knew that Technicolor was so old.
@RLucas3000
Жыл бұрын
I still do miss the song The Jitterbug in the movie, the song they cut instead of Somewhere Over The Rainbow. Yarburg did the lyrics to the 1950 Broadway musical Flahooley, it’s ‘ok’. Arlen wrote around 6 Broadway musicals, the best of which is 1954’s House of Flowers, with Pearl Bailey.
@TheCaptainSlappy
2 жыл бұрын
The Wicked Witch was a real trooper in this film. For years, she would get asked to do conventions to scare kids, which she did. She was a kindergarten teacher and also was on Mr. Rogers Neighborhood and explained (for kids) the difference between movies & real life. During the movie, she suffered first-degree burns on the right side of her face and second-degree burns on her right hand when she exits Munchkinland; the flames rose too soon, before she had descended below the stage.
@DigiVixen
2 жыл бұрын
She was also a substitute ballet instructor. She taught my mom when she was little.
@TheCaptainSlappy
2 жыл бұрын
@@DigiVixen Outstanding!
@vicentehizon6202
2 жыл бұрын
The tornado was actually a large muslin stocking, stretching at a length of 35 feet. Muslin being the same material used for windsocks. The top of the stocking was attached to a gantry that gave it the spinning motion. The bottom was attracted to a rod that ran the length of the soundstage. A dustpan of a material called “Fullers Earth” was used to give off the cloud of dust. The rolling clouds were actually painted on two glass panels, and the effects supervisor moved the panels in alternating directions to give off the illusions. The shots where Dorothy hurries back to the farm and see the debris flying past her window was actually a rear projection (a large screen that projects the image of the twister sweeping the Kansas landscape). The shots of the house flying in the cyclone and then falling on the Witch of the East was actually a reverse shot of the miniature house falling down over a matte painting and clouds of dry ice vapor and dropping the prop off the top of the soundstage to make it look like the house is flying.
@lesliemonster92
2 жыл бұрын
I will never get over just how realistic and frightening that twister is---to this day that entire sequence holds up, and the old school filming techniques really surpasses the quality of most modern depictions. Fantastic stuff!
@josepha5885
2 жыл бұрын
The twister in this film is still scary. decades after I first saw in when I was 7.
@Malryth
2 жыл бұрын
Same here. I recall reading in a book back in the 80's that they blew air through a nylon sock to create the tornado effect.
@wolfgangkranek376
2 жыл бұрын
Horrors Behind the Scenes of the Wizard of Oz kzitem.info/news/bejne/rYKvvqx4aZSYgZw
@saaamember97
2 жыл бұрын
The twister in this film looks even more real that those computer generated ones in the movie Twister!
@frankficcle7081
Жыл бұрын
@@saaamember97 That's hilarious considering Twister's only selling point is its special effects (which have aged terribley.)
@jessharvell1022
2 жыл бұрын
to answer your question, the entire movie was shot on sets, with certain exceptions location shooting was extremely rare in hollywood productions at this time, studios had entire large backlots where just about any location (from new york city to the old west to outer space) could be constructed, the union set designers and builders were some of the great craftspeople of the classic era
@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344
2 жыл бұрын
I agree with your last part especially. The union technicians were superb in that era and still are.
@Pixelologist
2 жыл бұрын
@@shmizzle99 It was actually a large gantry crane to which the muslin cloth and chicken wire tornado was attached at the top. The bottom of the tornado was attached to a smallish cart on a track and stagehands hidden just beneath the set would move the cart back and forth. So the top and bottom of the tornado could be moved independently while the chicken wire at the top enabled it to maintain its basic funnel--like shape.
@KingOfNebbishes
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, a lot of the people involved in set construction were later used in WW2 to create camouflage for vehicles and also to build fake vehicles to deny the Axis useful intelligence.
@markokelly2494
2 жыл бұрын
I always thought parts of it were shot on location in Oz.
@markdodson6453
2 жыл бұрын
The funniest "TV Guide"-style synopsis of The Wizard of Oz That I ever read: "Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again."
@slytheringingerwitch
2 жыл бұрын
Also robs the corpse and refuses to give it back to the grieving relative.
@Wawagirl17
2 жыл бұрын
Pfft! Love it and have to share it now!😄
@windindi2834
2 жыл бұрын
5:00 The tornado in this movie was done by using chicken wire, a long stretched out legging, and a lot of dirt on the bottom spinning rapidly! Many meteorologist consider this tornado to be the most accurate portrayal of a tornado in cinema!
@kiemer4531
2 жыл бұрын
MGM used the effect in their movies until the mid 50's.
@NightcrawlerLuver
2 жыл бұрын
I always wondered how they did that
@ronaldjeffrey8712
2 жыл бұрын
The scene of the house falling from the sky was shot by dropping a miniature house from a scaffold onto a floor painted to resemble the sky and running the film in reverse. The magic of practical effects are so much more interesting than C.G.I. will ever be.
@Serai3
2 жыл бұрын
@@ronaldjeffrey8712 The reason CGI is so unconvincing is that, no matter what they do, it's just a cartoon. Done with a machine instead of paint and brush, but still just a cartoon. That will never be as satisfying as watching a film where you keep asking yourself, "How did they DO that??"
@ronaldjeffrey8712
2 жыл бұрын
@@Serai3 For me the most entertaining part of a film is figuring out how the practical effects are done. Sadly these days the answers is usually just some guy sitting at a keyboard.
@michaelgoldberg7127
2 жыл бұрын
Your observation of Professor Marvel and The Wizard was spot on. They were both played by the GREAT character actor Frank Morgan. What most people don't know is that he actually played 6 characters in this movie. 1)Professor Marvel, 2)The Doorman at the entrance to the Emerald City, 3)The Cabby that took them to get cleaned up, 4)The guard at the door leading to The Wizard, 5)The voice of the Fire Wizard, and 6)The Wizard himself. We lost him in 1949 and he never got to see the colorization version.
@brittyn
2 жыл бұрын
This movie still holds up to this day, I think. I try to put myself in the shoes of people who saw this in 1939 and how awestruck I would’ve been!
@IsaacLikesGames
2 жыл бұрын
My great grandma is like 93, and she said when this movie first came out people in the theatres were gasping and they were awestruck at the part when Dorothy steps out of her house and into the land of Oz. It’s amazing that this movie is 83 years old and it still holds up today. The Wizard of Oz is such an amazing, magical, and timeless classic.
@evanhughes1510
2 жыл бұрын
There were plenty of color films in the 30s prior to wizard of oz
@IsaacLikesGames
2 жыл бұрын
Evan Hughes There weren’t a lot tho
@evanhughes1510
2 жыл бұрын
@@IsaacLikesGames There were enough
@brittyn
2 жыл бұрын
@@evanhughes1510 not like this.
@markdodson6453
2 жыл бұрын
Technicolor ran three strips of film through the camera: a red strip, a blue strip, and a green strip. Each strip captured its own part of the visible spectrum. Then, in the lab, all three strips were printed down -- which is to say combined -- to a single reel of film that resulted in a full, true-color image. Technicolor was loved because of the incredible flexibility available in the lab to make color adjustments due to having each channel of color on a separate reel.
@Decrepit_Productions
2 жыл бұрын
To add a bit of extra info to your fine explanation, technicolor was around a good while by the time WoO was made, existing even during the silent era. However, it was at first only "two-strip" technicolor, missing one of the three colors, I forget which. The goal was always to end up with "three-strip", but it took time to get there. Videos on "two-strip" / "two-color" technicolor, as well as the overall history of technicolor, can be found here at KZitem.
@markdodson6453
2 жыл бұрын
@@Decrepit_Productions And to REALLY bring it full circle -- and thank you for building on our impromptu history -- one of the first two-strip Technicolor movies was the original "A Star Is Born" with Frederic March! And I don't know about you, but I've always been glad they got to three-strip so quickly. Two-strip is pretty much the ugliest method for achieving "color" ever made. A necessary step, as you point out. But man, SO hideous looking, those pinks and greens!
@gammaanteria
2 жыл бұрын
A great documentary short (it can be found currently on KZitem) is "Jack Cardiff: Painting with Light"...Cardiff was the legendary cinematographer who worked on Powell & Pressburger's classic movies. His stories, such as getting selected to run Technicolor even though he had no background technical expertise with it and demonstrating how it worked are well worth watching!
@markdodson6453
2 жыл бұрын
@@gammaanteria I'll look it up! Thanks!
@RayPointerChannel
Жыл бұрын
To be specific, you are referring to film negatives. A prism was used to split filtered light to separate red, green, and blue images on each black and white negative. Since there was not color negative film at the time, the impressions on the black and white film were used in a dye transfer process to create the color.
@MathMan271
2 жыл бұрын
@6:43 i got really into the technicolor process last year and read a ton about it. Technicolor process had been around since about 1914 and was used on particular films from that point on. the acid colors they used are extremely stable and vibrant. even now decades later, technicolor prints are so sharp, high resolution, and vibrantly color accurate, that they are considered of archival quality, dating as far back as 1917!!! @10:57 It uses 3 separate exposed film negatives (cyan, magenta, and yellow - which are the negative colors of red, green and blue) filmed at the same time, and synced and pressed together during the process. Because the cameras were using 3 separate reels of film simultaneously, some technicolor cameras at the time could weight up to 500lbs!!! Edit: Just wanted to add that have gone back and watched a bunch of older technicolor films and comparing them to modern media - i can unequivocally say there is just no substitute for technicolor. In my mind it was and will be the undisputed king for color and clarity
@jamesalexander5623
2 жыл бұрын
"The Adventures of Robin Hood" 1938 is considered the best Technicolor Film ever made! ..... The costumes just Pop!
@michaelcherry8952
2 жыл бұрын
An interesting piece of trivia is that when the costumers were looking for an old coat for the character of "Professor Marvel" they found one in a second hand shop and discovered a label inside that read "L. Frank Baum". The coat had originally belonged to the author of The Wizard Of Oz! Also, there is a story (possibly apocryphal) that when L. Frank Baum was writing the original story, he was couldn't think of a name for his magical land. Then he looked at his two-drawer filing cabinet: the top drawer was labeled A-N. The bottom drawer was labeled O-Z. Problem solved!
@randomlibra
2 жыл бұрын
Good thing it wasn't U-Z. "The Wizard of UZ" Doesn't have the same ring to it :)
@gerstelb
2 жыл бұрын
The likely reason that there was a coat belonging to Baum in the area was that he spent the last years of his life in the L.A. area - he had a small movie studio where the very first Oz movies were made (he wasn’t as good a filmmaker as he was a writer, unfortunately).
@michaelcherry8952
2 жыл бұрын
@@gerstelb Cool! I never realized that he ended up in California. Given that he died in 1919, it's amazing that the coat turned up in a second-hand store 20 years later, right when the costumer for Wizard of Oz was looking for an old-fashioned frock coat.
@jonlenihan4798
Ай бұрын
The carriage, pulled by the horse of a different color, is in the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. The original owner of the carriage was Abraham Lincoln.
@annaolson4828
Жыл бұрын
It's wild to me, and honestly really touching, to see people who've never seen this react to a movie that's been part of American childhoods for about 3-4 generations now. I can't remember how I felt the first time I watched this, probably because I was really young.
@waynesimpson4081
2 жыл бұрын
The wizard "throne room" scene is not composite. The head was projected onto the steam cloud and captured in camera. Inglorious Bastards paid homage to it in it's "burning cinema" scene.
@randall-king
2 жыл бұрын
Amazing
@stoogeswoman
2 жыл бұрын
Did you ever notice that the only character from Kansas who didn't have a counterpart in Oz was Uncle Henry? Even Auntie Em was there, in the crystal ball.
@kathyastrom1315
2 жыл бұрын
For another gorgeous Technicolor film from a year earlier, you should watch The Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn, one of the best swashbucklers ever! It’s just loads of fun.
@brettv5967
2 жыл бұрын
Yes! Such a fantastic, entertaining movie.
@Thorn76
2 жыл бұрын
I second (or third) this suggestion!!! And if you decide that swashbucklers are your thing, Rouben Mammoulian's THE MARK OF ZORRO starring Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone is a great one! -- and speaking of Tyrone Power, the original NIGHTMARE ALLEY is a must if you also plan to watch the Del Toro remake.
@richelliott9320
2 жыл бұрын
And the horse Trigger is in it. Made Marion rides him
@brettv5967
2 жыл бұрын
@@richelliott9320 is that true? I’ve never heard about this. That’s wild.
@richelliott9320
2 жыл бұрын
@@brettv5967 last time I saw the movie I thought the horse looked stunning. Wikipedia said Roy Rogers later bought him and he was trigger
@GrouchyMarx
2 жыл бұрын
Hey Shan, at 6:20 you got that right!! My mom saw this in 1939 at age 8 and she said the audience applauded and cheered at that unexpected scene. I think this was the first color movie at the time and released before Gone WtW, though there were colorized cartoons and FitzPatrick's Traveltalks may have been in color by then. From what I recall in documentaries about Oz is that the beginning and end scenes were also in color, but done to make it look sepia B&W for affect. @ 16:11 That's the "That's the horse of a different color" the driver was saying, a play on the old expression "That's _a_ horse of a different color" denoting any kind of a change in someone, something or situation. There's a documentary on the making of The Wizard Of Oz you would find very interesting. More movie suggestions from around this time are Orson Well's masterpiece "Citizen Kane" (1941), "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948) another good Bogart film, and another Capra classic "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington" (1939). BTW, the reason "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." stands out for you is maybe, according to my mom who saw Gone WtW in '39 as well, that was the first time anyone heard a curse word in a movie!! (Hays code) She said the audience erupted in chatter at the curse word and applause toward Rhett for telling off Scarlett all at the same time. LOL! 😎👍
@TheOneTrueChris
2 жыл бұрын
This is one of the rare examples where a film is considered the definitive telling of a story, even though it makes numerous significant departures from the source material -- in this case, the L. Frank Baum novel.
@MrSmartAlec
2 жыл бұрын
I saw this for the first time on tv as a child in the early 60s. I remember being fearful of the wicked witch and the scene where the stocking-ed feet of the witch of the west curled up and retreated under the house absolutely terrified me. Good times !
@thewildgoose7467
2 жыл бұрын
You could go back even further to 1934's "It Happened One Night" starring Clark Gable. A little risque for it's time and quite possibly the first "road movie", it's directed by Frank Capra and is one of only 3 movies which have won the Big 5 Oscars.
@lynnie6633
2 жыл бұрын
When I was a child, this movie aired once a year on tv. I think it was 1965 or 1966 that I first saw it. It was an event for sure...we got to stay up late, have popcorn and snacks....it was so exciting!!!! I still love it. Oh, on a side note, it seemed that they had problems with the "muchkins", after shooting for the day many of them would get drunk and cause trouble!!
@galandirofrivendell4740
2 жыл бұрын
Back in the 1960s, one of the TV networks (CBS, I think) aired this movie annually as a special event, and people would huddle around the TV in awe. It was comparable to watching the Super Bowl today. That's why it such a beloved movie after so many years.
@mikemarcotte560
2 жыл бұрын
When the commercials advertising this would start playing a week or so in advance, it was SO exciting! My mom would let us kids eat in the living room on TV trays the night it came on! It was a big TV & family event!
@CoopyKat
Жыл бұрын
18:10 In 1968 the producers of "Planet of the Apes" contacted producers and special effects staff from The Wizard of Oz to get an idea of how to do the prosthetics for the apes in the '68 film! That's why it's interesting that you mention the two films when there really IS a connection!
@lynng9618
2 жыл бұрын
Margaret Hamilton was Judy Garland's best friend on the set. JG was treated miserably by the cast and director. MH would bring her into her trailer and giver her tea and advice.
@brittyn
2 жыл бұрын
It broke my heart when I learned how Judy was treated 💔 especially being made to feel ugly and fat. And creating the beginning of her addiction to drugs 😭
@IsaacLikesGames
2 жыл бұрын
After hearing about all the stuff that happened behind the scenes, it made me love and appreciate the movie so much more. Those actors/actresses went through a lot to give us this amazing masterpiece of a movie
@Kainlarsen
2 жыл бұрын
@@brittyn She deserved so much better than she got... poor woman's life was ruined by this film, I think.
@TrangPakbaby
Жыл бұрын
@@Kainlarsen curious why do I think that? Judy loved this film and never blamed it for her troubles. Judy was pretty much an addict before this film was made. Whether she did the film or not her life still would have had the same trajectory imo. Mgm was hellbent on exploiting her talent, if anything I think this film probably was the only thing she really could look back on with a sense of pride, worthy of the pain she endured
@danielflynn9141
2 жыл бұрын
So glad you watched this one. I grew up near L. Frank Baum's hometown of Chittenango, and every year they have a festival dedicated to his works. Oz has always been a big part of my life, and I'm an enormous fan of Judy Garland. For me, this film is a fairly faithful adaptation of his work, but it's mostly about the incredible technicolor photography and the talent of the principal actors, all of whom were old vaudevillians. For a more faithful adaptation, I believe Walter Murch's underrated film "Return to Oz" is definitely worth a watch. If you like technicolor photography, you MUST see The Red Shoes (1948), which is arguably the finest technicolor film ever made, and arguably one of the best films ever made. I think it would blow your mind.
@brittyn
2 жыл бұрын
I love Return to Oz! I’m curious what Shan would think. That would be a great reaction.
@mena94x3
2 жыл бұрын
Whenever this happens to be on TV, my mom always talks about how, as a kid, it was pure nightmare fuel for her when the Wicked Witch of the West’s face suddenly appears in the crystal ball when Dorothy is calling out to Aunt Em. As a kid in the 50’s, I guess that was pretty intense. 😂😂🥰
@paulaanderson2339
2 жыл бұрын
I was a kid in the fifties and that crystal ball scene is still the first thing I think of when I remember watching. I feel your mom's pain.
@USEditor
Жыл бұрын
▫️Per your curiosity and questions about the 1939 MGM film “The Wizard of Oz” and its production backstories, groundbreaking and inventive filming techniques, how laborious (and dangerous) the sets were to built and use… …the actual personnel who fashioned the narrative and screenplay, the score and lyrics-and the revolving door of “uncredited” directors who worked on the project. What’s more, four actors and production crews members were “literally” nearly killed during the actual filming of “Oz” due to set and prop mishaps. ▫️HERE ARE SOME OF ANSWERS to your questions and curiosities-along with a couple of corrections/clarifications regarding your “Oz” reaction and film review. My comments here are meant to be informative and supportive. ▫️PREFACE: “The Wizard of Oz” is a classic American musical that made its own rules-that has overwhelmed the test of time-no other fun made has done that. None. Dorothy opening the front door after landing in Oz still incites a “wow” response, surprise, amazement, and goosebumps-no matter how many times one has seen it. During the late 1930s the United States was still in the grips of the decade long financial Great Depression. When people went to the movies then they wanted films that took them away from their daily troubles. “The Wizard of Oz” did just that. At the time the movie came to be from January 1938 to July 1939 MGM basically realized it had bit off more than it could chew by making two of the most creatively ambitious, technologically daunting, labor intensive, with nonstop script and score revisions, that were afforded the most expensive movie production budget ever made to that time-along with nonstop cost overruns. The two MGM movies were “Gone With the Wind” and “The Wizard of Oz” that were both filmed in Technicolor-which involved three strips of synchronized monochrome celluloid film that were exposed at the same time with one being yellow, one in magenta, and one in cyan. After film processing the three colored strips were merged together creating a color filmed take. “The Wizard of Oz” and “Gone with the Wind” were the 7th and 8th movies (respectively) that were filmed in Technicolor to that point. What’s more, both movies were nearly scuttled mid-production due to their cost overruns, creative hostilities, problems with directors, addressing technical challenges, and missed deadlines… …however, because both projects were so far along MGM bit the bullet and allowed their completion (no matter what the final costs). The 105 minute “Wizard of Oz” cost $2.8 million (1939) or $60 million today. The 4-hour “Gone With the Wind” cost $3.8 million (1939) or $84 million today. ▫️HERE ARE THE THINGS you weren’t clear about: (1.) THERE WERE 6 (six) DIRECTORS who worked on the “Wizard of Oz” and they were: Norman Taurog Richard Thorpe George Cukor Mervyn LeRoy King Vidor and Victor Fleming (credited) Fleming left the “Oz” project early to save and finish “Gone With the Wind” of which he won the best director Oscar. (2.) Jell-O was used to color the “Horse of a Different Color” at Emerald City. (3.) THE TORNADO: Special effects director, Arnold Gillespie decided to make the tornado out of muslin which would allow it to twist, bend and move from side-to-side. He built a 35-foot long tapered muslin sock and connected the top of it to a steel gantry suspended at the top of the stage. With various fans tossing dirt and dust through the muslin sock, smoke pots were used for the wall cloud with strips of dark cotton made to look like moving clouds. Many think the CGI process used for movie effects today still hasn’t created a tornado that matched the realistic look and violence of the “Oz” twister. The tornado was filmed so it could be projected onto a background screen that also allowed the 60 mph. fans in the foreground to blow debris, dust and leaves-blowing horizontally-unimpeded. The 5-minute tornado sequence-set, mechanics and filming-made for the most expensive scene in the movie. Bethlehem Steel in Pennsylvania was needed to provide the steel for a special gantry built to slide the tornado sock from the soundstage’s ceiling along a floor track so the funnel looked like it was twisting… …and a floor track zigzagged through the rows in the background cornfield allowing the tornado to move closer and closer to the foreground. (4.) THE SCREENPLAY: “The Wizard of Oz” had more than 20 script drafts from January 1938 to June 1939. The credited writers of the 1939 “Oz” movie screenplay were Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf. However, the list of uncredited writers is actually enormously longer-with scenes from a number of their drafts making it into the film. The screenplay writers who worked on “The Wizard of Oz” from 1938 to 1939 were: William H. Cannon, 1938 Herman J. Mankiewicz, 1938 Noel Langley, 1938/1939 (credited) Irving Brecher, 1938 Robert Pirosh, 1938 George Seaton, 1938 Florence Ryerson, 1938/1939 (credited) Edgar Allan Woolf, 1938/1939 (credited) Ogden Nash, 1938 Herbert Fields, 1938 Samuel Hoffenstein, 1938 Jack Mintz, 1938 Sid Silvers, 1938/1939 John Lee Mahin, 1938/1939 Arthur Freed, 1939 (script doctor) and Jack Haley, 1939 Bert Lahr, 1939 (5.) MUSIC: The primary film “score” for the “Wizard of Oz” was written by MGM composer Herbert Stothart-the music scores for the musical’s songs were written by Harold Arlen-with literally all of the lyrics wonderfully concocted by Yip Harburg. (6.) THE MUNCHKINS: The Munchkins of Munchkinland comprised of around 120 adult little people and 10 children. Nearly half of the adults Munchkins were from Europe. (7.) One thing I would caution against is regarding the temptation to compare any of the sets or production techniques in the 1939 “The Wizard of Oz” through any modern prism. For one, no color fictional movie has stood the technical test of time like the “Wizard of Oz” it can rightfully be said. Producer and co-writer of the film, Noel Langley, was a fanatic about anything being in the movie that could date it. There are no popular or familiar musical measures that reflect any of the popular musical formats of the 1930s-no matter the temptation. The story arc’s astonishingly well constructed-with the best character and scene “foreshadowing” and reprise of any movie ever made. Not hyperbole. Noel Langley wanted to keep the narrative tight and streamlined so it could be easily grasped from the start e.g. “everyone” can emotionally relate to their dog being badly treated by another person-and needing protection. Toto without realizing it is the hook that irreversibly pulls the viewer-of any age-into the movie. What’s more, though made as a children’s movie, it’s also for adults with statements and quips that go over the heads of children-kids react to the characters, visuals and music-grownups more to the script. It covers all bases. Instead of looking only at the backdrops, staging, and a camera shake or two-study the sum of all the visual parts as one… …and how they contribute and tie together the whole of a unique effort. You may find it more entertaining. And nothing beats the overall ensemble and how they all overcame their individual self doubts-a basic lesson not lost on children. “The Wizard of Oz” can’t be looked at as a 1939 made movie, nor a film that some think would have been better made in 2023-or in 2039. As a whole, think of any film since 1939 that hasn’t been influenced by “The Wizard of Oz” in some way. How many elements in the movie remain definitive to this day? Finally, how many movies have as many instantly remembered quotes and music lyrics as the 1939 “Wizard of Oz” has? Or has as many references made to it as this one? Or has a team of four individuals as widely well known as the Beatles? The truth is-none. - William Castronuovo Washington, D.C.
@robtomlin6124
2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely love this movie. Just wanted to point out that the workers in the emerald city can give the lion a perm and even due Dorothy s eyes to match her gown but they don't fix the holes in scarecrow s shirt.
@ZaveAres
2 жыл бұрын
Return to Oz from 1985 might be my favorite. I love the darker tone and the genuinely creepy villains in there. It's not a musical btw so you don't have to worry about copyright 👌
@brittyn
2 жыл бұрын
Yep, I love that one too! Much closer to the books, as well.
@michaelnemo7629
2 жыл бұрын
Shan, please watch RETURN TO OZ from Disney from 1985!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@minnesotajones261
2 жыл бұрын
Don't forget the new one: Oz, the Great and Powerful - a nice prequel.
@brittyn
2 жыл бұрын
@@minnesotajones261 did you like it? I thought it was really forgettable and I wouldn’t ever bother to rewatch it.
@minnesotajones261
2 жыл бұрын
@@brittyn I did like it. Call me kooky - I love all the Oz sequels, prequels, etc. There's even a 1970s era cartoon by the guys that did Fat Albert called Journey Back to Oz - a cartoon musical with Liza Minelli doing the voice of Dorothy.
@mikejankowski6321
2 жыл бұрын
Great reaction, Shan. This is a true classic and very entertaining. "That's a horse of a different color" is an old American idiom for something unusual or if someone veers off topic to the discussion and you point out that it is irrelevant. In this case it became an amusing color-changing horse. You did not comment on the plot, but I will share my take on the ending. While Dorothy's recovery was a relief to all, what she took from her adventure, spoken both to Glinda and her family, was that her interest in adventure beyond the horizon was squashed, which to me is sad. Also, the problem with Miss Gulch was not resolved - Toto was still slated for destruction (unless the tornado got the old woman). That is the only negative for me. You have a lot of great comments to go thru and history to appreciate here! Thanks for posting this, and all the work that went into it.
@janedoe5229
2 жыл бұрын
The problem about Toto at the ending always bothered me too, even as a child. We know Mrs. Gultch is going to come back for Toto, so the pivotal problem of the movie has not really been solved.
@victorsixtythree
2 жыл бұрын
6:19 - that shot of Dorothy opening the door and seeing the land of Oz in color was all done in camera. The "black and white" shot of the door is actually shot in color with the door and walls painted to look black and white. The back of Dorothy's head is actually a stand in with make-up and costume to look black and white. When she opens the door we see the color outside and then Dorothy steps through the door - but this time it's Judy Garland in full color. Pretty simple but still one of the most famous shots in cinema!
@brandonflorida1092
2 жыл бұрын
"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" is a line from "Gone with the Wind."
@anthonymunn8633
2 жыл бұрын
Shan,Technicolor was done with a giant camera that had 3 rolls of black and white film running simultaneously,each with a colored filter so it would record one color of the three primary colors.And the prints were kind of like lithography,with each color pressed like a rubber stamp onto blank film.
@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344
2 жыл бұрын
Lighting. Intense lighting.
@anthonymunn8633
2 жыл бұрын
@@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344 true.The set was so hot many of the actors in costume passed out!
@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344
2 жыл бұрын
@@anthonymunn8633 My interest in the process of the Techniclor process started when I watched a two-strip Technicolor film "Dr X." 1932.
@shainewhite2781
2 жыл бұрын
Disney wanted to do an animated version of this movie since 1935, before MGM bought the rights. Shirley Temple was considered for Dorothy before Judy Garland was chosen. Buddy Ebson was cast as the Tin Man but left the project as he was allergic to the Tin Man Makeup. Judy Garland was forced to take weight loss pills and barbiturates to make herself look thinner The Munchkin actors got drunk and sexually harassed Garland on set. When the Cowardly Lion made an appearance, Garland laughed at him and director Victor Fleming slapped In the face to set her straight. Garland kissed Fleming on the cheek and thanked him The scene where they run through the flowers, and Dorothy and the Lion start to fall asleep, they used asbestos to represent snow for the scene. Fleming, Richard, Thorpe, King Vidor, and George Cukor all directed the film, before Fleming was named sole director.
@Shadowman4710
2 жыл бұрын
It's weird that makeup causes so many problems with productions. Virginia Hey was forced to leave "Farscape" in the early 2000's because of her negative reaction to the makeup they were putting on her. It was actually causing serious kidney problems which resulted in renal failure at one point...
@salsonny
2 жыл бұрын
Very Few people get the Oil can joke. When the call went out for little people back in 1937 , they came from all over the country and the studio assigned them to a hotel and it was the first time most of the actors ever saw anyone else like them selves. There were tales of crazy stories and debauchery. There is a movie that somewhat depicts some of the stories "Under the Rainbow" 1981
@buckdraper303
2 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid, this movie came on once a year.. usually around Easter. It was appointment viewing. For being made in 1939, it's an astonishing film.
@Rallarbusen
2 жыл бұрын
Technicolor works by running three strips of black and white film through the camera simultaneously, each with different filters on the lenses. They could were, after editing, combined onto a single strip of color film for projection.
@nedporkus8602
2 жыл бұрын
The song lyricist, Yip Harburg, wrote all the songs in this film, as well as a number of other well know popular songs of the era such as "Brother Can You Spare a Dime," "It's Only a Paper Moon, April in Paris," and all the music for the for a number of musical plays and movies including "Finian's Rainbow," which also featured a song about a rainbow titled "Look to the Rainbow." Harburg considered rainbows to be an important symbol of hope and were a recurrent theme in his work. His song "Brother Can You Spare a Dime" came out in 1932 and is the defining song of the Great Depression. So popular and so resonant was this song with the hardships of that time that it has been credited with tipping the election of that year against Hoover and in favor of FDR. Harburg is one of the towering greats in the pantheon of American music, but his songs are truly international in their appeal. At the end of the Cold War when Soviet puppet governments of Eastern Europe were being overthrown, the Romanians after facing violent government repression gathered in the Bucharest city center and sang "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" when they heard news of the execution of their hated dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu. But of all of these, his Academy Award winning song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" remains perhaps his greatest masterpiece.
@chaospoet
2 жыл бұрын
I keep forgetting the older I get how different things are. When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s it was almost impossible to have not seen this movie. You had to actively go out of your way to not see it. It would get played on TV as a special event once every year on Prime Time Television. Kind of like A Christmas Story during Christmas, But now an entire generation has grown up where that was not the case and you have to actively go out of your way TO see it. I couldn't tell you how many times I've seen this movie in my life, but a lot. After it stopped being played on TV I bought it on DVD and watched it a bunch since. That transition from Sepia Tone in the house to Color entering Oz NEVER gets old. One thing though that just never occurred to me until the most recent time I watched it. When Glinda shows up she explains quote "Only BAD Witches are ugly." but the FIRST words out of her mouth to Dorothy are "Are you a Good Witch or a Bad Witch?" Glinda was throwing shade at Dorothy like "*Snaps Fingers* Girlfriend you ain't all that! You got nothing on me!" in her own polite way, which is freaking HILARIOUS! 🤣
@BartholomewSmutz
2 жыл бұрын
The three-strip Technicolor process was used in this film and for many years which meant the camera had three reels of film rolling all at once required the camera to be very large and quite noisy so a covering was used to reduce the noise called a blimp which made the camera even more cumbersome. However when done right Technicolor films looked beautiful. Two other beautiful films in Technicolor are The Red Shoes and Black Narcissus.
@dubbleplusgood
2 жыл бұрын
You asked how much of it was shot on set. Likely all of it. Even the tornado is a background practical prop.
@annharris8550
2 жыл бұрын
“Surrender, Dorothy!” When I was a little girl back in the 50s and 60s I used to watch it on my black and white tv. when it would come on-once a year. I’d get so excited!!!!! Those flying monkeys freaked me out!! I loved the songs! I always knew it changed to color in OZ but couldn’t see it on my tv!
@brittyn
2 жыл бұрын
There are so many interesting facts about this movie. One that I was shocked to learn recently was that the Tinman had to be recast because the original actor (Buddy Ebsen) was hospitalized after 9 days of filming due to inhaling aluminum dust from the makeup. When Jack Haley got hired, they changed the makeup to an aluminum paste instead.
@TellyKNetic
11 күн бұрын
They also didn't tell Jack Haley why Buddy Ebsen dropped out.
@BigGator5
2 жыл бұрын
"And remember, my sentimental friend, that a heart is not judged by how much YOU love; but by how much you are loved by others." Wise words to live by. 😎 👍 Fun Fact: "Over The Rainbow" was nearly cut from the film; MGM felt that it made the Kansas sequence too long, as well as being too far over the heads of the children for whom it was intended. The studio also thought that it was degrading for Judy Garland to sing in a barnyard.
@bruceblakeslee2751
Жыл бұрын
Dorothy stepping out from a world of sepia tone to Technicolor is amazing. Judy's stand in (dressed in sepia) opens the door, (you only see the back of her head) then backs out of the frame, instantly replaced by Judy Garland in her color costume stepping through the door into Munchkinland.
@TheTrmetzgar
2 жыл бұрын
Fun fact, The first full color photo was created by accident. Back the day their was a photographer that liked to use gels or plastic with different colors to get different effects. Later he started projecting his black and white photos with the same color gels. One day he took the same shot using a blue, Yellow and Red gel and later superimposed the image with the same color to backlight using gels. Magic, a color image was created. All color cameras and have light sensitive filters that divide images into a similar situation to make color images. Color TV for the longest time Had Red Green and Yellow light gun that would recreate color images using some for of this basic process.
@heisenb3rg
2 жыл бұрын
This film is truly timeless! Crazy to think it’s almost 85 years old.
@frozengamer3030
2 жыл бұрын
I know it’s hard to believe
@Otokichi786
2 жыл бұрын
Lyman Frank Baum's gift to children: An Iconic American Fairy Tale.;)
@mena94x3
2 жыл бұрын
I adore the King of the Forest/Courage song. It’s adorable and hilarious. All the songs (and their accompanying character-dances) are awesome. 🥰🥰🥰
@majkus
2 жыл бұрын
"Oh, they're back!" You noticed the abrupt transition from the WItch's castle to the WIzard's throne room, which even bothered me a bit as a kid. There was actually an elaborate musical number here (notice that there are no songs in act III?) which starts with the guard singing 'Hail Hail the Witch is Dead' and transitions (with a trombone slide) to the Emerald City with a reprise of Ding Dong the Witch is Dead (with a bit of The Merry Old Land of Oz), and ending with 'You're off to see the Wizard... Let him know the Wicked Witch is dead!" with the Emerald Citizens flanking our heroes as they head to the throne room through the tunnel. You can find KZitem vids with the soundtrack (which was preserved) and the few stills and a couple of seconds that were preserved in a trailer. The MGM powers that be cut it for time, and (as you noticed without realizing it) that marred the film. As the film stands, the big moment of the witch's death, the 'eucatastrophe' (as Tolkien put it), is pretty flat emotionally, and lacks the joyousness that it really deserves. All to save less than two minutes of run time. Interestingly, perhaps, with CGI, deepfakery, and re-recording, this scene could probably be nicely reconstructed and inserted nowadays, if someone wanted to invest the resources and the intellectual property quagmire could be sorted out. Another Act III song, 'The Jitterbug', was also cut, but that's another story.
@glennwisniewski9536
2 жыл бұрын
The jitterbug is actually referred to in the final cut of the film where the witch says, "I've sent a little insect ahead to take the fight out of them."
@ifeelpretty5790
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah they cut and trimmed a lot of songs and dance numbers; Ray Bolger, one of the greatest dancers ever to grace Hollywood, had a whole extended dance sequence in If I Only Had a Brain that was cut from the film. It must have been so disappointing for him after he fought so hard to play Scarecrow instead of the role in which he was originally cast, Tin-Man; he specifically wanted to play Scarecrow so that he could dance full-out and not be held back by a constricting costume like the Tin-Man’s costume.
@The_Dudester
2 жыл бұрын
1) The movie was shot entirely on a set. 2) The tornado was actually a woman's stocking.
@RayPointerChannel
Жыл бұрын
The stocking was used just in the POV shot (Point of View) for Dorothy looking out of the window and seeing the funnel cloud under the house. The scene of the tornado in the farm field were composites of miniatures and rear projections. The Funnel Cloud itself was a seven foot piece controlled overhead with dirt blown from beneath the floor. The book, THE MAKING OF THE WIZARD OF OZ goes into the details. There are also videos on KZitem that illustrate how the Special Effects were achieve. While most were "Mechanical" effects, that term has taken on a new name, "Practical Effects."
@markdodson6453
2 жыл бұрын
Also, Judy Garland-wise, watch her performance in "A Star Is Born." She's an exposed, raw nerve in that movie. Heartbreaking and vulnerable in ways that few actors of the 20th century could truly be. (And James Mason is equally as heartbreaking.)
@iluvmusicals21
2 жыл бұрын
She should have won the Oscar!
@goodowner5000
2 жыл бұрын
...as Groucho Marx wrote in a consolation Telegram to Judy Garland regarding her Oscar loss for 'A Star Is Born'...."the biggest robbery since the Brink's heist"!
@jamesalexander5623
2 жыл бұрын
Judy's best dramatic performance was in "Judgement at Nuremberg"
@RayPointerChannel
Жыл бұрын
@@jamesalexander5623 But NUREMBERG was not a star vehicle as A STAR IS BORN was.
@imocchidoro
2 жыл бұрын
This has been our family's Thanksgiving day movie for a few generations. I love how each generation of children love it like it was brand new. I could say how many times I've probably seen it, but I won't. I still love it every time. Great reaction and review. Thanks
@dynamobahamas
2 жыл бұрын
Judy Garland was also great in Easter Parade another musical she co star with Fred Astaire .To me it was the highest peek of Garland's career showing her acting dancing and singing ability in a classic blockbuster movie.
@toodlescae
2 жыл бұрын
The Thin Man (1934) and The Women (1939) are two of my favorites from this time period. Actually, I love the entire 6 movie series of Thin Man movies. You're right about the Tin Man costume. The actor originally hired for the part, Buddy Ebsen, had yo be replaced because he had such a severe allergic reaction to the silver paint.
@DougRayPhillips
2 жыл бұрын
Actually Ebsen was originally the Scarecrow, and Ray Bolger was the Tin Man. But they decided to switch roles. (I assume they had to get permission from somebody.) And then Ebsen reacted to the makeup. I believe it was the aluminum content, and was either toxicity or else just that his pores couldn't breathe. Anyway, he lost out on that role. He also lost out on playing Davy Crockett, because Disney spotted Fess Parker in the SciFi movie "Them," cast him, and demoted Ebsen to sidekick. But at least Ebsen got to dance onscreen with Shirley Temple, and play Jed Clampett and Barnaby Jones, and do a dance at his own 90th birthday party. Life is a mix of highs and lows.
@nickmanzo8459
2 жыл бұрын
It was aluminum dust that coated his lungs.
@CoopyKat
Жыл бұрын
This awesome movie only has about 15-20% of the content of the original book, published around 1900. There are many other adventures in the book that would make this an 8 hour movie instead of 2. Like Dorothy travels through China Land, where everyone is made of china. And a giant scary monster that the lion has to fight off. And the Flying Monkeys actually speak in the book as well. The book is written in a style for adults and children, it's free online, I recommend anyone to read it.
@aussierob7177
2 жыл бұрын
You have to watch A Star is Born.1954. Judy singing and dancing "Swanee" is unforgettable. Also, check out Easter Parade. Judy with Fred Astaire. "A Couple of Swells" is a brilliant song and dance number performed on a moving stage.
@kathyastrom1315
2 жыл бұрын
You were wondering how difficult it was to perform in the Tinsman’s costume? Well, Jack Haley was a substitute for the original actor, Buddy Ebsen, who had filmed only a few scenes when he was sent to the hospital in reaction to the aluminum powder used in his makeup, which got into his lungs. They had to take a new approach to Haley’s makeup.
@3DJapan
2 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid in the 80s this came on TV every year and we had a pizza picnic with a blanket on the living floor to watch it.
@codyclaeys2008
2 жыл бұрын
I know it moves the movie along but the witch having a bucket of water just lying around is like a person who's allergic to peanuts with a cupboard full of peanut butter 🤣
@grahamg5955
2 жыл бұрын
this was part of my childhood at Christmas or Easter when i was young i got sit down and watch wizard of oz. or Casablanca every year. i am glad you watched this as it gives good values in life and gives you a good feel inside. and you always will always say there is no place like home
@823850
2 жыл бұрын
Sometime in I guess the late thirties, at a dance convention, my talented mother, probably late teens, was an on-stage dance assistant for Ray Bolger. She would run her own school for about fifty years, passing away in 2013. She was a good teacher, choreographer, and costume designer. She helped probably thousands of girls improve themselves. Go Mom!
@okami36
2 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid, we were stationed in Germany, and found out our next move was going to be Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. Because of this film, I was half-convinced Kansas was going to be in black and white, and I wasn't sure I wanted to go.
@ejtappan1802
2 жыл бұрын
I grew up in the 1960s when network TV would broadcast this movie once a year. It was always a big event that every family in the neighborhood looked forward to... I especially remember watching it on a color television set for the first time!! That, and being utterly terrified of the flying monkeys!!
@frankiebowie6174
2 жыл бұрын
Every single frame of this movie was shot on the old MGM studio lot in Culver City CA. All the songs were written for the film by Arlen and Harburg. MGM boss LB Mayer and other executives hated it - most specifically the barnyard setting - and ordered it cut, feeling it slowed the pace, but the composers held fast and the song is always at the top of the list of greatest film music performances. And yes, Judy Garland’s Dorothy is the glue that holds this bright piñata together. Thanks for your reaction!
@3DJapan
2 жыл бұрын
6:20 Very cool visual effects hack here. They couldn't film both B&W and color at the same time so the room set is painted B&W. A body double of Garland is wearing B&W clothes. She steps off camera and Garland steps in wearing color clothes.
@RighteousBrother
2 жыл бұрын
This is an absolute Xmas classic in the UK, its shown every year without fail. Interestingly the film was something of a flop on its initial release, and only gained classic status after it was broadcast on TV year in and year out. We did a production of this at school, the endless rehearsals means that the songs are absolutely burned into my memory.
@3DJapan
2 жыл бұрын
How much was filmed on set? It was entirely shot on a Soundstage with wood floors. One version of the ruby slippers had felt on the bottom so it wouldn't make noise on the floor. Sadly the Soundstage burned down not long after filming.
@therenegade79
2 жыл бұрын
Technicolour was done by filming on 3 strips of different coloured film. So it was filmed in colour, with the house set, dress and makeup of Dorothy opening the door to Oz being actually sepia coloured, the Dorothy double stepping out of frame and Judy Garland stepping into frame
@kimwatchesstuff
2 жыл бұрын
I think I remember reading somewhere recently that the tornado was created with a long tube of gauze or some sort of fabric.
@greenpeasuit
2 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite classics. I will only always be amazed by their tornado effect given what they had to work with. I once saw a "making of" and still am amazed. I know a giant stocking and large mirror were involved. Other old movies that I will always love are "Rebel Without a Cause" & and "Its a Wonderful Life"
@jpotter2086
Ай бұрын
Rewatching some of your reactions, sir ... I again enjoyed the genuine wonder and joy Oz brought you!
@catherineholden6388
2 жыл бұрын
My favorite movie ever and I've seen a lot of movies, especially classic movies and many of them many times over. I like how you look at films, so I really wanted to watch you on this one. It was worth everything to see the look on your face when the film went from sepia to full technicolor. I was born in 1957. I would have probably seen the film the second time it was shown on TV and that was the first annual broadcast. By the time I was six it was my favorite. We could only see it once per year. We had a black and white TV, like most people back then. When I was 9 there were some neighbors who had a color TV and they invited us over to see WOZ at the annual showing. I'll never forget seeing that the WWW was GREEN! I was so amazed. Needless to say, with the advent of physical media, I've seen it hundreds of times by now as well as the absolutely superb Return to Oz (Disney live action - actually pretty dark). BTW, you missed the line from the cabby that this was the Horse of a Different Color. That's why the color of the horse kept changing. They used jello packets and the horses kept licking it off. Frank Morgan played: Professor Marvel, the door guardian, the Cabby, the entrance to the Wizard guard, the floating Oz head, and the Wizard. The Tin Man's costume was a pain. Jack Haley had to have a standing board to rest on. The original make up nearly killed the first actor hired to play the Tin Man (Buddy Ebsen) and they changed it so as not to kill Haley. Ray Bolger said he had lines on his face for months from the burlap and the Lion's costume was real lion's skin and weighed 60 lbs. The prosthetic work for the flying monkey's was the template for what was used in Planet of the Apes and improved. There were actually four directors. Nothing remains of Richard Thorpe's work as they had to regroup after Buddy Ebsen illness. George Cukor did a bit, then Fleming. Fleming was taken off to work on Gone With the Wind. King Vidor finished up with the Kansas scenes. The last half of the movie has no music at all because two pieces were cut after filming.
@davidmeir9348
2 жыл бұрын
While not technically the first color movie, it was certainly the movie that made technicolor the standard for the next 40 years. The same year came out Gone with the wind. Another early color classic. There are noticeable differences with the book but rarely an adaptation had been put on the screen such as you feel you are viewing the book, if not completely storywise, at least in the world and its feel. The color parts of the movie hold up surprisingly well even in the make up and FX departement. In itself a small miracle given that the movie is almost 85 years old. The song Over the Rainbow is so beautiful,. If you can, do watch the MadTV alternate ending of the Wizard of Oz, simply hilarious. Needless to say the impact it had on western culture. It truly is a classic in every single sense of the term. I strongly suggest you watch an early Hitchcock classic. the 1935 spy film The 39 steps. Absolutely fantastic. You won't regret it. Also his 1943 thriller Shadow of a doubt that he considers his favorite film he did.
@mikell5087
2 жыл бұрын
The year before, 1938, The Adventures of Robin Hood was another notable early Technicolor film.
@haintedhouse2990
Жыл бұрын
loved your reaction! color film was done in films of 1939. the original version of A Star Is Born (1937) was in color among others. nice research on this timeless classic.
@michaelbastraw1493
2 жыл бұрын
"I wonder how much of this was filmed on set?" Okay, Shan, you got to spit take out of me on that one. Best. Leo.
@kevinerose
2 жыл бұрын
This and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang were the scariest movies for me as a child.
@oaf-77
2 жыл бұрын
When I used to watch chitty chitty bang bang, I thought the intermission was the end of the film. I thought it ended on a serious down beat
@goodowner5000
2 жыл бұрын
OMG Yes! That guy with the straggly black hair & long nose, all dressed in black that lured and captured the kids. SHIVERS!! 😱
@oliverbrownlow5615
2 жыл бұрын
@@goodowner5000 "There are children here somewhere ... I can smell them!"
@Serai3
2 жыл бұрын
LOL, the coach driver explained it - that horse is the Horse Of A Different Color. So every time you look at him, his color has changed! Speaking of color, it was very important in the original story, and the filmmakers had to contend with it. In the book, Kansas is described as grey - everything, including the people, were relentlessly grey. But when they went to make the film, they realized they had to change that because in movies at the time, _everything_ was grey (in other words, black-and-white), so using grey wouldn't be a comment on Kansas. Thus, in order to make Kansas seem colorless in contrast to Oz, it was decided to make sepia the color of dullness and "old timey" reality.
@AlanCanon2222
2 жыл бұрын
The first three-strip Technicolor feature film was "Becky Sharp" (1936), three years before Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind.
@pamnicklas5536
2 жыл бұрын
Back in the day...they only showed this once a year...everyone made sure to tune in because it was that special!
@johnmavroudis2054
2 жыл бұрын
Scarecrow Rules! (and... wonderful review, as always! Thank you!)
@donatord
Ай бұрын
The tornado was not a composite. It was actually a giant burlap construction being whirled around with smoke and dirt being thrown out the bottom far enough away that it looked real and huge, but it wasn’t very big.
@gaptoothed
2 жыл бұрын
Victor Fleming is the credited director, but left to work on Gone With the Wind - two others worked on the movie. The film was shot entirely on sound stages at MGM, which today is Sony Pictures (Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy are taped here). Cute reaction.
@danielflynn9141
2 жыл бұрын
P.S. A solid documentary came out in 1990 and it was entitled The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic. It's presented by Angela Lansbury. Can't argue with that! It might be a little tough to find at the moment, but there are segments of it here on KZitem.
@spikedpsycho2383
2 жыл бұрын
tornado effect was done using a bunch of blankets and a rotating drum... He created the tornado out of a wind sock that they use at airports. The whole tornado was made out of a wool cloth that was 35 feet tall. He mended the fabric with music wire so it would hold together when spun. Gillespie then attached the top of the tornado to the top of the sound stage to a gantry way that was across the top of the stage. He attached the bottom part of the tornado to a slit in the ground and then was attached to a car that moved along the length of the stage.
@martinstallard2742
2 жыл бұрын
Maybe you could watch Robin Hood with Errol Flynn which is from the same decade
@oaf-77
2 жыл бұрын
From that era I’d also recommend ‘Thief of Bagdad’ (1940)
@ibnteos
2 жыл бұрын
If I remember right, Disney managed to get the rights to the story some time after this film was made... before trying to adapt it they were experimenting on some of the visuals they could use with other movies, such as "Babes in Toyland" (1961). I think the first adaptation of Oz from Disney was the sequel "Return to Oz" (1985). A more modern production was the prequel/reboot "Oz the Great and Powerful" (2013). Another adaptation of the Wizard of Oz that I remember is "The Wiz" from 1978 wtih Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, I think it was the film adaptation of a broadway musical. I believe there are some production featurettes regarding the Garland film on the anniversary release DVD/BluRay; most behind-the-scenes of the times were news reels and on-film commentaries as a form of preview or trailer. For some production commentaries on films of the time, there's the documentary series "MGM: When the lion roars" from 1992. :)
2 жыл бұрын
Babes In Toyland (1961) is a masterpiece, still waiting KZitemrs react to it.
@StCerberusEngel
2 жыл бұрын
Still have my 50th Anniversary VHS on my shelf. Must've watched this so many times as a kid. The Downy tie-in commercial is still engrained in my memory.
@davidfox5383
2 жыл бұрын
As a boomer born in 1962, this movie was an annual TV event that was every bit as important to a middle-American child of that era as birthdays and Christmas. The movie is very good, but it holds a special place in the hearts of many from that era.
@1wwtom
Жыл бұрын
I believe that Dorothy's Ruby Slippers are enshrined in the Smithsonian Museum. Another side note is that the Professor/Wizard of Oz part was offerred to W.C.Fields who turned it down. And yes, usually sometime before or around Easter every year there are stations/channels that still show this film. I know I've seen it Dozens of times.
@juice_box_jax
2 жыл бұрын
Since you’re asking for recommendations from the same period, definitely check out the classic ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. For my money it’s still the best Robin Hood film and one of the best swashbuckling adventure films ever made. Fantastic music and action and a great cast and the early Technicolor really pops.
@thomastimlin1724
2 жыл бұрын
Frank Morgan, who played the Carnival guy and the "Wizard," also played 2-3 other parts including the first doorman, and the soldier protecting the Wizard of Oz building, and was also the guy driving the colorful horse carriage and singing "The Merry Old Land of Oz." it was a sort of joke on the children in the audience if you didn't realize it until you were an adult. Frank Morgan was always hysterical in anything he played on screen, often playing some kind of failure of a con artist.
@brettg274
2 жыл бұрын
From this era, please check out: “Treasure of the Sierra Madre” starring Humphrey Bogart “King Kong” original, followed by the Peter Jackson remake.
@ink-cow
2 жыл бұрын
So much trivia, here's some more: when Dorothy tells Scarecrow at the end that she'll miss him most of all, supposedly that's left over from a draft that suggested a love interest between Dorothy and the farm hand Hunk. This might be true because it actually had some precedent, as an earlier silent Wizard of Oz film was made in 1925 that had a farm hand in love with Dorothy. The silent film barely resembled the book at all, and had the farm hand and his rival (Oliver Hardy) disguise themselves as a scarecrow and tin man to avoid capture by Oz troops.
@falcon215
2 жыл бұрын
That twister at the beginning scared the bejezzus out of me as a young kid.
@vwlssnvwls3262
2 жыл бұрын
This used to be on t.v. every year, and I watched it every time from about 7 - 13 years old. In the 90s John Ritter starred as L. Frank Baum in a made for t.v. movie about the trials and tribulations Baum went thru in life and in writing this book. I recall it be very good, and very interesting, it was called "The Dreamer of Oz".
@gordonmorris6359
Ай бұрын
If you watch closely when Dorothy first approaches Professor Marvel as he stands behind his wagon, on the back of his wagon is written BALLOON EXHIBITIONIST, providing another element for Dorothy's dream.
@glenmcdonald375
2 жыл бұрын
This is where the saying comes, "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain"... to depict any charlatans or sleight-of-hand or deceptions...
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