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8:23 - I am literally tearing up watching all of you react to Dorothy opening the door and seeing the Land of Oz in color! It's got to be one of the greatest cinematic moments in history, right?
Same ❤ :)
Imagine the audience in 1939, used to black and white, who maybe never´ve seen a color movie. They must have been totally blown awy.
It was a beautiful moment, I completely agree.
@@UltraHD.7 And, with no such thing as spoilers back then, no one saw it coming!
Yeah!
THANK YOU for reviewing this movie!!, it was one I requested. Im 61 and this movie was shown once a year on television in the USA during the 1960's and 1970's, its one of the greatest movies ever made IMO. as a child I watched this every year to see the tornado!. facts....the tornado special effects was more expensive than anything else in the whole movie. the tornado was created on a huge sound stage using a airport weather sock thats used to determine wind direction. they filled it with dirt and used huge fans to create the tornado effect. UNBELIEVABLE special effects from 82 years ago before computers!. again THANKS for the review!, Love you all!.
Where i live they run this movie once a year in theaters. They even did a 3D one on the anniversary but i didn't know until after. Love this movie too. So many shows pay homage to it, plays, authors, it just touches every thing in one way or another.
They also showed it alot in the 1980s and 1990s where I live in so cal and another that they still show till this day is ben hur the one from the late 1950s I think it was made in 1959? that is another classic movie.
... and I used to cry from the moment Auntie Em appears in the crystal ball until the end of the movie. Every year. Didn't Danny Kaye used to introduce it?
I never saw the color part, but my parents told me it was in color. We only had a B&W TV set. (i'm 69)
@@michaelvincent8208 This is the same movie it starts in black and white then later comes in color.
margaret hamilton was fantastic as the witch. best evil laugh in movie history
It was sweet how Mr Rogers had her on to show the children she was actually such a kind person in real life.
I classify that witch noise as a legendary cackle. but hey I am not gonna disagree with you on "bet evil laugh in movie hoistory".
She's such a great protagonist and she actually has a reason to hate Dorthy. Since she flattened her sis with a house and all.
@@lethaldose2000 John Wick never had anything on Dorothy Gale for sheer killing power.
I loved seeing her play Morticia's mother in the Addams Family TV show.
@@lethaldose2000 That was hardly Dorothy's fault! She really had nothing to do with the twister picking the house up and dropping it on WWE. If she had had any say in it, she would have stayed in Kansas.
I suppose it could be argued that, as WWE's next of kin, the slippers were rightfully her's. But, she was going to use them to dominate Oz and persecute the citizens. So, Glinda was not wrong in intercepting the slippers and giving them to Dorothy.
One of the most timeless classic movies of all time the Wizard of Oz. There's no place like home.
Unfortunate to know what Judy Garland was dealing with at this time
@@theretrosavage I agree with you it makes me look at this movie in a different way rip Judy garland
@@theretrosavage Judy Garland and Bette White were the same age. They were both born in 1922.
@@nsasupporter7557 wtf is your point
The ruby slippers were silver in the book. They made them ruby in the movie to show off the new Technicolor technique.
I think that Smithsonian has those original Ruby Slippers on display
@@MrTech226 Several pair were made for the movie. The Smithsonian does have one of them.
@@katwithattitude5062 Thanks for the info
You're right. I read it in french when I was a little girl and in the books, they were silver.
And I read three kids books writted differently.
Also, they tried the silver slippers in the movie but saw they didn't stand out. Her socks wouldn't make them stand out too. I got a pair of the same type of sparkley slippers when I was a kid.
Growing up in the 50s this was a must at Christmas Time. This never gets old I still watch it at 70.
The Munchkins were actually portrayed by 124 adult "little people", with 10 young girls among them.
Yep, and there's a mostly fictionalized account of all those little people being together at once called "Under the Rainbow" with Chevy Chase. It bombed but I'll always have a warm place in my heart for it.
@@JustWasted3HoursHere Princess Leia is in it. (Carrie Fisher)
Correct.😊
You girls just watched one of the most classic films in history. As a young boy in the sixties I would wait every year for this movie to come on TV. The witch and flying monkeys scared the hell out of me but I Love it. I'm wondering if any of the older ones here in the states remembers that Margaret Hamilton who played the wicked witch was Cora the Maxwell House lady on their TV commercials in the late sixties and maybe into the early seventies. She was always so comforting too me in those commercials. I always found it hard too believe that she was the wicked witch. In those commercials she was like your loving grandmother. Take care Homie Girls. 🎄🦌☮️✌️💕
Usually I envy them for being able to watch so many movies for the first time. Not in this case. I can't IMAGINE having grown up without this movie.
The song, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" is such a timeless and iconic song. Kids and Adults for generations have grown up knowing it has an 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.
Hey! I recognize you from Popcorn in Bed. Good seeing you here!
I was disappointed they didn't include that number in this reaction. I love that song.
@@B-a-t-m-a-n They couldn't. It would have been a guaranteed copyright strike.
@Batman I agree. I looked forward to "Follow the Yellow Brick Road.", "Wizard of Oz" and so many more. They didn't get that it's a musical and that singing along to musical parts, takes the experience to the next level.
@@tarmaque You can play 10 seconds of the song and then muffle it to avoid the copyright strike. But the grls never reacted to it so the editor didn't include that part in the YT release. The editor mainly uses whatever they react to since there is so much footage to cut.
Frank Morgan is an unbelievable actor in this movie. He brilliantly played the roles of Professor Marvel, the Doorman, the Cabbie, the Guard and the Wizard. When Professor Marvel was reading his crystal ball, he wasn't trying to dupe or con Dorothy. Since he knew she was running away, he made up a story to convince her to go back home.
I always thought of Professor Marvel as the antithesis to Miss Gulch.
Gulch hit Toto for getting in her garden. Professor Marvel just chuckled when Toto stole his hot dog, and said he was welcome to it.
Gulch prompted Dorothy to run away. Professor Marvel talked her into going home.
Gulch showed up at the farm to take Toto and get Dorothy in trouble with Auntie Em and Uncle Henry. Professor Marvel showed up at the farm to make sure that Dorothy was okay after the storm.
@@CadeD679 Sad part, I don't think he ever got a chance to see the movie.
@@haveanicedave1551 And, he never knew how it immortalized him.
Simply the greatest movie ever made. 1939 and stands the test of time. To see the pure enjoyment on these young ladies' faces watching an 83 year old film warms my heart.
Best regards from Indiana, USA.
Judy Garland's voice is absolutely ICONIC!! 😍🥰💘💘💘💘😊
Still one of the best of all time
Honestly it’s still one of the nicest closing moments in film history, how the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion were all people in her real life. It’s so sweet.
Thanks for reacting to this golden oldie! These classics have such a beautiful, timeless, endearing charm about them, harkening back to a more innocent time, that even though by 1939 the greatest conflict in human history was just around the corner, the escapism of a dream world must have been beautiful to behold.
I hope you can do more classic films in the future from around this same time, and others in the 40’s and 50’s.
I don’t know how much you’d take to it, but if you don’t mind some pretty creepy vibes, the sort-of sequel Return to Oz is actually really good fun to watch, and I think it’s underrated!
_Return to OZ_ was not a true sequel, because Faruzia Balk was clearly younger than Judy Garland as Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion was actually a CGI lion (more in line with the source material fairytale written by L. Frank Baum, actually) rather than an neurotic actor wearing genuine lion's skins & having rubber latex prosthetics glued to his face, the MGM film was wrapped around the idea that OZ was all a dream from a bump to the head during the twister knocking Dorothy unconscious & yet the events of the source material fairytale and a lot of the adaptations (including _Return to OZ_ curiously enough) treated the trip "over the rainbow" as legitimate (since the start of _Return to OZ_ actively shows Uncle Henry & Aunt Em putting the finishing touches on a new house after their original house was destroyed by the cyclone and the 2nd female "patient" at the psychiatric ward whom Dorothy had befriended turned out to truly be the definitive heiress of OZ, forever young Princess OZma, who promised she would show up in Dorothy's mirror from time to time [think parallels to "The Looking Glass" from Lewis Carroll's similar _Alice in Wonderland_ children's story] to check up on her friend should Dorothy ever wish to come back to OZ again, which Dorothy - with terrier Toto and her initially skeptic Aunt Em & Uncle Henry in tow - finally does permanently in one of the later original OZ books, with Princess OZma effectively allowing Dorothy to serve alongside her as a regent of The Emerald City) rather than just Dorothy's hyperactive imagination.
This film is based on a children's book by L Frank Baum; the first of 14 books in a series about Oz. In the books, Dorothy wasn't dreaming: Oz was a real place that she really travelled to via the tornado. In the later books, she moves there permanently and even brings her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry to live there with her. The books are full of amazing characters and clever social and political satire that grownups could enjoy while reading the books aloud to their children. The books are all great, and highly recommended. Thanks for the reaction!
It's not a coincidence that Dorthy lives on a farm. Until the 1920s at least 50% of all Americans lived on a farm. Today it's less than 2%.
My brothers and I watched this every single year on television when it was shown. As a very little children we loved this show, but there were moments that were very scary ( at least for little kids ). Also, for kids, it helped to instill good values. Shirley Temple was supposed to play Dorothy but her studio would not release her, so they picked Judy Garland to replace her. Lots of people thought Judy was a little too old for the role, but it worked out in the end and this is an American Classic.
True. Judy was a bit old for the roll of a pre-teen girl, and they had to bind her breasts to help keep the illusion. (She was rather well endowed, even at sixteen years of age.) Another vehicle was created by 20th Century Fox for Shirley Temple called _The Blue Bird_ but it was not much of a success. It was seen as a cheap knock-off of _The Wizard of Oz,_ and although it had some great effects for the time it didn't have the charm or the quality writing.
The funny thing is. the terrier canine TOTO is one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood at this time. Making $125 per week. This was a lot since most people made around 5-7 dollars a week, back in 1939. The high pay came from the fact that MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer wanted this particular canine Terrier.
Wow. If your numbers are accurate, that's a HECK of a lot more! Using an inflation calculator, I find that, in today's dollars, these would be $2500 per week for the dog -- quite respectable -- but only $100 to $140 per week for the people. How the heck could someone survive on that kind of low pay?!?
@@bigdream_dreambig a sandwich cost like 10 cents, a suit cost $10, a car cost $3000, and a house cost $10K. So it was a different time for sure.
@@lethaldose2000 But those would be the pre-inflation numbers, to be compared with, say, an income of $120/week x 52 weeks/year = $6240/year. Although I guess inflation has affected some items differently than others. Today that would be a $2 sandwich (cheap), $200 suit (cheap), $60k car (pricey), and $200k house (cheap).
@@bigdream_dreambig I don't know where you live but if you are correctly adjusting for inflation. A meal at burger king is $2 but Burger King uses wholesale purchasing to achieve those economies of scale. If you took a $7 meal at Chiplote or Panera Bread you'd get a true sense of inflation. A $10 or $20 dollar suit would cost $600 or $800 today. but that's a custom suit. Not a suit off the rack at Men's Warehouse made in Indonesia where the cost of labor is $2.50 a day. The cost of houses today are controlled by prefabrication and large-scale building of 100 house at a time in phase housing developments and associations. So all this must be taken into account.
@@bigdream_dreambig Yes, my grandma went to work in 1939 right out of high school in a town of about 5000 people so she would have been close to the bottom of the pay scale and she made $10/week.
Keep in mind this movie was made in 1939. It was one of the first major uses of Technicolor in a motion picture. The transition from black and white to color wowed audiences. No one had ever seen anything like this movie before with brilliant color and incredible special effects at the time. The Munchkins were all little people. No kids. Many of the special effects were physical effects done using magic tricks devices by magicians. fireballs were real, smoke and trapdoors made the witch disappear. And no one had ever attempted make up effects like this before. Still regarded as state of the art by todays make up artists. For pre WWII audiences, this was like our grandparents Star Wars.
The part Dorthy doesn't mention as what she learned from her dream: "but first, I need to kill that witch that wants to destroy Toto!"
The story of the Tin woodsman from the Oz Books:
Nick Chopper started out as a rather healthy and handsome human being. He was an Ozian born and raised in the eastern quadrant known as the Munchkin Country in Oz. Being a Munchkin, he was destined to become a great lumberjack woodsman. This was because when Nick was growing up his father was a skilled woodsman who chopped down trees for a living. Nick's father would sell the wood and lumber to the people in Oz to make houses, bridges, fences, and other establishments throughout the farming communities. So when Nick grew up he carried on the family tradition and became a woodsman as well. He made his own home deep in the Munchkin woods not too far off from Oz's Yellow Brick Road. He lived all alone on the side of the road in a little cottage with a bed of dried leaves.
The Wicked Witch spies on a human Nick Chopper with his lover Nimmie Amee.
After his parents died, Nick had no other family to turn to, so to stop his aching heart from the loneliness he was enduring after their deaths, he decided to find a mate to marry and to start a family of his own with. Soon Nick fell deeply in love with a beautiful Munchkin girl he had met by fate named Nimmie Amee. She was lovely and kind but worked as a full time maid and belonged to an old widowed woman who lived close by in the woods. But Nimmie Amee also had deep feelings for Nick, so Nick proposed to her confessing his true love. Nick Chopper then promised his significant other and future wife that he would build a nice sturdy house for her to escape to and live a happier life at, all he had to do was chop some trees down and start building. Now, This old woman who owned Nimmie Amee eavesdropped on the two lovers talking one day about their plans. Being old and alone, she did not want to lose her servant, so she secretly visited the Wicked Witch of the East. This Witch was the Wicked ruler of the Munchkin Country and had the people who inhabited the east tightly in her bondage. The old woman paid the Witch two sheep and a cow to prevent her servant from becoming a bride to elope with Nick Chopper in anyway possible. The Wicked Witch cast a dark spell and without him knowing it, she magically enchanted his axe to slip in his hands when he used it to swing. Instead of hitting the wood of the tree trunk, his axe strangely missed the spot her aimed at and over time chopped and hacked all of his body parts clean off one by one. After each accident, a nearby tinsmith named Ku-Klip who also lived in the Munchkin Country replaced the lost part that had been amputated with a new shiny tin one until eventually his entire body was made of tin, even his head. And his soul from his meat body, transferred to the tin one. But with his new form the Tin Woodman no longer had the desire to eat or drink, or even sleep. And his new tin body had no heart, so naturally he thought he could no longer love, and ultimately lost interest of pursuing a future with Nimmie Amee.
Super sad 😢
It's amazing that a film from 1939 can still make people laugh in all the right places, and feel the myriad of emotions in all the right places. I so enjoyed your reactions. It's such a timeless film, a work of art, and so pure in its presentation - I think that's why it still resonates today. Of course, the performances, music, sets, effects - all fantastic. Now check out "Meet Me In St. Louis" for more Garland, this time as a beautiful young woman. :)
"a horse of a different color" is a popular phrase. So the literal horse of different colors is a pun
The horses used in this scene were different colors from having Jell-o powder rubbed onto them! It was necessary to use something safe to dye them. Of course the horses licked it off because it tasted good.
The way they did color video back then involved shooting it on three different reels of film at once. In front of each film was either a red, green, or blue color filter. The resulting films were then tinted according to the color filter that was used, then recomposited for theaters. To get it to work, it required specially made insanely bright lights that cost an astronomical electric bill. It wasn't practical, but it was the best technology available at the time.
Believe it or not, this wasn't the first color film. The very first color film was a 1908 short film called "A Visit to the Seaside," and used an even more primitive method in which a rotating two-color filter was synced to the film to capture black and white frames that alternated between the two filters. In the theater, the film was projected through another red-green filter combo to yield a color picture.
Michelle saying "I want to go to Bali..." That was a well-timed laugh!
The movie takes place during the 1930's in Kansas when over planting led to soil depletion and barren crops. The winds came, causing Sahara like conditions. Causing a great migration of people to California. John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath". Also a movie.
What's most amazing to me is the fact that this was done in full color. At the same time, a television would cost about $7000 in today's USD and only came in black & white with about a 19" screen at best. It's insane how far ahead of its time this movie really was.
Well, it was a LONG time before it ever made its way to TV. Like 15 years or something. It was the first use of full color in a movie…ever. I can’t imagine what it was like going to the theater and seeing that for the first time. It probably made the experiences of seeing visually groundbreaking movies like 2001, Jurassic Park and Avatar pale in comparison.
There were other color movies out at the time, and even before. For movie theaters, of course.
This was NOT the first full-color feature-length film. “Becky Sharp” was made in 1935, four years earlier.
This movie never gets old. A true iconic masterpiece.
They originally wanted W.C. Fields to play the wizard/Professor Marvel, but he was unavailable and suggested Frank Morgan.
I saw the Broadway play, "Wicked". It tells the back story of the wicked witch of the west. As wicked as she is in the movie, the play explains that she is misunderstood. It's a really amazing stage play to witness. I love, "Wicked" and I love, "Wizard of Oz". Especially when I show it to my nieces and nephews.
@Music _Wicked_ may have political overtones (the whole anti-Animals agenda pushed forward by Madame Morrible & Elphaba being mislabeled as a Wicked Witch when she was actually right all along about the Ozian elite's racism, xenophobia & other bigotry against oppressed groups, as a mirror reflection of real-life), feminism (but then, so did the original story, given the witches - both good AND wicked - being the only ones with legitimate power & Dorothy being the innocent protagonist), pro-LGBTQ+ relationships (both G[a]linda & Elphie are canonically BI, since Glinda would later enter into a boring arranged marriage with an utter dullard - lampooning how dame Billie Burke was married to MGM star Lawrence Zigfield in reality, although she was treated with great respect because of whom she was wed to - and titular green girl Elphaba would make love to literal diamond stud Winkie prince Fiyero to sire "Son of a Witch" Liir, however Elphie & G[a]linda would also love each other romantically, particularly during their younger college years at Shiz University) and the like, but there were reasons why these things were added to the inversion of the classic tale retold from the iconic villain's perspective, reconstructing her as a misunderstood wallflower "beautifully tragic" protagonist.
The term "woke" didn't exist in 1995 when the book _Wicked: The Life & Times of The Wicked Witch of the West_ was written, nor 2003 when the Broadway musical debuted, so _Wicked_ is NOT "woke crap"!
Imagine how many generations this has been a childhood movie for, and how amazing this must have been to film viewers in 1939, with the brilliant colors in it. 1939 was a big year for films, since 'Gone with the Wind' also came out in 1939 in color and it beat 'The Wizard of Oz' to the Best Picture Oscar. The Wizard of Oz won two Oscars, for Best Music and Best Original Song ('Somewhere Over the Rainbow').
22:50 I love when Ellie says Oiiii ❤️❤️❤️
8:23 no matter what year it is, no matter the generation, where we are from, the reaction is literal magic on our faces when we see Dorothy walk into colour.
You just witnessed one of the most classic movies ever made
The Technicolor process was almost experimental in 1939. It uses three strips of regular black and white film in the camera each behind different coloured filters. This required ferocious amounts of lights in the studio, making it really really hot for the actors in their costumes.
One of my favorite classic movies. The Wizard Of Oz is a true timeless treasure.
The song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" has been voted in numerous polls over the years as the greatest movie song of all time. Hard to believe that it was _almost_ cut from the movie because they felt it slowed it down too much. Luckily they came to their senses and left it in!
The U.S. gets more tornadoes than any other country in the world, due to it's topography. They mostly occur in the central states known as "Tornado Alley", which includes Kansas, where Dorothy lives.
'Now I know I've got a heart, 'cause it's breaking.' That line gets me every time.
FUN-FACT - The snowflakes they used in the poppy field scene was asbestos, crazy, they had no idea of the dangers of asbestos in 1939
Only 9 kids played a Munchkins in the movie. The vast majority, 113, were adults.
Yall needs to watch another Judy Garland movie called Meet me in St Louis it's a masterpiece
I never heard of it before..
Your reaction to the color reveal is fantastic. One of the greatest moments in film history.
Scarecrow, tin man and lion are the same guys on the farm in the first scene
Hey girls...Nice review, so heartfelt!
The amazing backstory of "The Wizard of Oz" movie.
- When the wardrobe department got the script, they said Professor Marvel (and The Wizard) required a long coat for the part. Every coat on MGM's lot didn't seem acceptable for the actor Frank Morgan's part, so they sent several assistants out to the thrift stores in the Los Angeles area to search for long coats. After returning with many coats, Mr. Morgan went through them and chose one tattered, old wool coat. He looked at the label, and it was marked with the previous owner's name.
L. Frank Baum. They saw the manufacturer's name, as it was made by hand at a fine clothing shop in England, and contacted the shop, which was still in business, to search their records to verify the owner's having placed an order for this coat in the late 1800's. It was true! How it made it's way to Los Angeles is a mystery. And an even larger mystery was how it was selected by the actor who played The Wizard of Oz, from hunddreds of pieces of clothing on the MGM studio lot.
After filming concluded, the MGM studio presented the coat to L. Frank Baum's family as a souvenir of the film. You see, the author of the original children's book "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" from which this movie was based, was L. Frank Baum!
- Buddy Ebsen (from The Beverly Hillbillies TV show) originally got the part of The Tin Man, but was allergic to the silver face paint, so he had to turn the part down.
- The Ruby Slippers Dorothy wore are considered "The Holy Grail of Hollywood Collectibles"
- "Today in 2001, Judy Garland's "Over The Rainbow" was voted Song Of The Century in a poll conducted by the Recording Industry Association of America, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Scholastic Inc. The song was written for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and became Garland's signature song."*
* www.thecurrent.org/feature/2021/03/02/today-in-music-history-over-the-rainbow-was-song-of-the-century
Vicky, I love the way that you noted that they all already had what they wanted. Very sharp. I also agree with you about Peru. Machu Picchu is my dream vacation!
Harold Arlen/Herbert Stothart with lyrics by Edgar "Yip" Harburg.
Judy Garland who plays Dorthey is the mother of Actress, singer, dancer and choreographer Liza Minnelli
They are all real Munchkins on The Wizard of Oz.
6:25 The tornado was actually made with a woman's stocking. Haha
The actress who played the Wicked Witch lived in the town next to mine and so it was a bit confusing when I was a child as we would see her in the stores and my mother knew her. Nice lady in real life.
It's a common misconception that the filmmakers switched from sepiatone to technicolor when Dorothy went from Kansas to Oz. That's not true. The depressing sepiatone is just Kansas. Ever been to Kansas? That's just the way it is...
Good thing the witch never flew on a rainy day.
The Oz doorman, horse carriage rider, the soldier at the main door, and professor marble, and of course the wizard are all played by the same actor .
there's a sequel called Return to Oz, it's one of the most haunting films you'll ever watch , also, there's a video on youtube by Film Theory, i think that poses that Glinda is actually the Wicked Witch
Return to Oz is only a pseudo sequel, since it was made by Disney, not MGM.
Here are the only alive cast of the movie wizard of oz
Caren marsh doll as judy garland's(dorothy's voice actress)stand is 104 years old and alive
And then few of the ten little girls that played munchkins are alive and i know three that are alive and two that passed away in 2022 and in 2023 but for the other five i don't know anyways
The first one betty ann bruno born in 1931 and was only 8 and died in 2023 age 91 before having 92 years
Then ken keamore born in 1931 and died in 2022 age 91
Then three that are alive are janet comerford born in 1931 age 92
Valerie lee shepard born in 1931 age 92
And lastly priscilla montgomery born in 1929 age 94
Beautiful ladies. My momma is 92 and saw it when she was 9. Please keep being so childlike when too many are just childish. Big difference. Thanks again
*i think this is and probably will be the most iconic "black/white to colour" films of all time* - *i recommend "the wiz" and "oz the great and powerful" too!!*
Also, the two forthcoming film adaptations of _Wicked_ (based on the 1995 novel & 2003 Broadway musical).
You're not in Bulgaria any more Homies. Welcome to Oz where all dreams are possible.
A couple years ago, I read the book to my second grade class. It was the first time I had read the book. Talk about differences. The biggest being how the Tin Man decapitated just about anything he encountered! The kiddos loved that.
Fun fact, the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West was a nice lady who later in life became a Kindergarten teacher.
She even appeared on the Mr. Roger's Neighborhood TV show.
And a banned episode of Sesame Street.
@@TwilightLink77 really! Didn't know that!
Why was it banned?
@@blowba She was portraying the Wicked Witch on Sesame Street.
As an American, it was amazing watching grown women who have never seen this. I loved your reaction and wish you could have played the great music. Having been in the music world, I know how heartless those bastards are. Nice job girls!
This used to be shown once a year on a major TV network in America. It's an all time classic. Movies don't get more classic than this one.
This movie had cutting edge special effects. For 1939. As a native Kansan, whenever I go anywhere else outside of my home state. This is the movie people associate with Kansas. They may not know anything else about Kansas, But they know this movie.
I can't help but think the poppies are a reference to opium poppies. And the snow, white powder, is a reference to cocaine. The opium knocks them out and some cocaine perks them up again.
Got the privilege to watch this movie as a child..cause watching it as an adult just wasn’t the same..
if you were older,you might remember Margaret Hamilton (the Wicked Witch) in a series of Maxwell House coffee commercials.
The last Munchkin, "Jerry Maren", died in 2018 at age 98.
Dear Michele, may the Wizard of Bali be with you.
Dorothy keeps killing people "I didn't mean to kill her, it was an accident." LoL. I am from Kansas City! Go Chiefs!
🤣 11:08 - Viki imitating the way the Lollipop Guild speaks. 🤣
The Munchkins are all adult little people. They were brought to Hollywood from all over the country for this film. That's a special effect the old fashioned way.
Y’all should watch “Twister” with Bill Paxton.
You want to see what tornados do, that’s a good movie.
As others have stated the Munchines are actually full grown adults, dwarves. What you saw on screen was the largest gathering of dwarves recorded on screen. A major call was put out to get them.
This was also the first full color movie, landing in Oz was the big reveal for it.
The lions outfit was two actual lion skins sewn together for the outfit.
The original makeup for the TinMan gave the original actor selected for the part a major allergic reaction and damn near killed him he quite and the guy on screen got the job.
That isn't actually true, that it was the first color movie, though a lot of still think that it was. It was one of the earliest (but not the first), and many of the people seeing it in the theater hadn't seen a color movie yet.
Some of the munchkins were kids
"The Wizard of Oz" is the gold mine at the end of the 1930s
All these things all those characters wanted they had all along.
I was looking forward to the girls singing so many of the songs like, "Follow the Yellow Brick Road.", "Wizard of Oz" and so many more. They didn't get that it's a musical and that singing along to musical parts, takes the experience to the next level.
Some not so fun facts
The lion's costume was made from real lion pelt
The actress who played the Wicked Witch got severe burns and was in the hospital for a few weeks
There was another actor who was originally going to play the Tin Man but he inhaled toxic paint (?) From the suit and was hospitalized and couldnt do the role
And the "snow" was made of asbestos which they knew was harmful at the time
Frank Morgan played Professor Marvel, The Wizard of Oz, both door guards, and the carriage driver.
There is a 1981 comedy called "Under the Rainbow" starring Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) and Chevy Chase (from the 'Vacation' movies) that is based on the tall tales told by Judy Garland about what party animals and how out of control the little people were during the filming of the Wizard of Oz. It's not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination, but if you're interested...
"This is your home now. Enjoy it." 🤣 You all have such great reactions!!
"That's the horse of a different color" was a joke on an old American saying from back then. If in a discussion you brought up a contrary or unrelated point, one would say that to mean it is totally different. The horse changing color each time you see it was a good literal play on the saying; I for one always liked it. Also, "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" has become ingrained in our phrases as a blast at behind-the-scenes manipulation. This film is so iconic, and there is so much interesting history to its making. Glad you enjoyed it so much, this is another fun reaction!
I'm an old man and enjoyed seeing this film through young eyes!!! Please screen :"Gone With the Wind"(1939).….any Mae West films from the 1930s..."American Pop" tells the story of American music through the generations of a family..it is ROTOSCOPE ANIMATION!!! (1979) "Midnight Express"(1979) with Brad Davis is hardcore about an American in a middle east prison for drugs..."She"... 1930s RKO .. Randolph Scott...a adventure fantasy about traveling to a mysterious kingdom beyond the icy artic ruled by a cruel unaging woman:"She who must be obeyed"... The special effects are mind blowing... there's a colorized version that's quite good..early work of Ray Harryhausen.
There were 2 color movies, the first 2 color movies ever produced in 1939. This one and "Gone with the wind ".
The Wizard of Oz is my favorite and was so ahead of its time. And researched to become the most influential film of all-time. 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
The Wicked Witch should have recognized Dorothy and Dorothy should have recognized the Wizard.
The lady playing the witch actually was hospitalized after being burned in this seen 💥
Great reaction ladies! I would like to suggest "Casablanca" for your next classic Hollywood movie; I think you'd like it. I don't think it spoils it to tell you there is a scene with a couple from Bulgaria :).
I heartily agree!!! Such a great film.
If you react to Casablanca please increase the volume level of the movie. Thanks!
The tin woodsman is that way because he kept cutting pieced of himself off by mistake and replacing them with metal.
There are at least 5 pair of Dorothy's ruby slippers still in existence. 1 pair is at the Smithsonian Institute and it's value is $666,000 thousand dollars. Another pair is at the Judy Garland Museum. It's value is between 2 and 3 million...
Mrs. Hamilton was burned during her first appearance. There were a number of strange things happened during the making of this film.
The fire effect went off early while she was being lowered through a hole in the floor that was hidden by colored smoke. Her face was burned.
Judy Garland was 17 in this movie,died at 47.
The tornado was just a stocking/long sock with some sort of powder in it in it.
3:55 what is that laugh all about 😂😂😂😂
The shot of the Wicked Witch trying to reach for the ruby slippers and being electrically repelled was used for by Jeff Lynne's great '70s rock band Electric Light Orchestra for their album ELDORADO.
1. If you start playing side one of the album "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd when the MGM lion roars it syncs up with what's happening
in the movie until the color kicks in.
2. Buddy Ebsen was supposed to play the tin man but he was allergic to the dust they used on his face, so since he was under a lifetime contract
with MGM they offered him "The Beverly Hillbillies" and the rest is history.
3. Sadly Judy Garland died in 1969 from barbiturate overdose.
4. In the 1980s they made The Wiz. Featuring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson among others.
5. It probably didn't exist then but it makes one wonder exactly how much acid had to be dropped it took to come up with this story.🙄😎
6. Glad you like this😁😁😁😁
Scratch 5 off the list. It was a children's fairytale. The first American one, to boot. Written as "The Wonderful Wizard of OZ" by Lyman Frank Baum.
In the book, the Wicked Witch is described as having dried herself out from wickedness. Her heart has stopped, and her blood has turned to dust. That's why water kills her.
Or, if you want the _Wicked_ explanation, "Elphaba" bathes in a water-substitute oil (a likely probable reference to the whole "bubble [x2], toil & trouble" chant ascribed to vintage wicked witch/evil fairy mythos that usually involves cannibalism, whereby the wicked witch/evil fairy would put their innocently pure child victim/s into caldrons filled with scalding-hot boiling oil, with the witch hunt hysteria making things worse, since innocent women using unconventional methods of healing or presumably curing various medical afflictions that were previously thought incurable were often perceived by gullibly misled superstitious people to be basically nigh immortal fairies disguised in corrupted human form that worked for the devil himself, although this archaic mindset certainly contrasts widely against the later _Bewitched_ [Samanatha Stevens, who was originally portrayed by Elizabeth Mongomery, plus her humorously meddlesome mother Eudora, as portrayed by Agnes Moorehead] & _Sabrina: The Teenage Witch_ [the burgeoning witch-in-training was played in live action by a teenage/young adult Melissa Joan Hart in the 1990's] & _Wendy, the Good Little Witch_ [the long-standing girlfriend of Casper the Friendly Ghost introduced in the pages of Harvey Comics & portrayed in live action by a 10-year-old Hilary Duff in 1998 for the _Casper Meets Wendy_ direct-to-video movie] & _Harry Potter_ [female costar Emma Watson played Hermoine Granger, who was a very astute young witch born from Muggle - _Harry Potter_ canon lingo for regular people who either don't have or have forever lost their magic - parents, proudly enrolled at Hogwarts' School of Witchcraft & Wizardry] depictions presenting contemporary fictional witches as otherwise normal female humans generally ostracized from standardized society due to possessing extraordinary magical abilities despite being benevolent/good rather than bad or the eventual adoption of witchy terminology by real people who practice Wicca) on account of the fact that the not-really "Wicked Witch of the West" had a deadly allergy to genuine water, as canonized in the _Wicked: The Life & Times of The Wicked Witch of the West_ novel, first penned in 1995. The 2003 musical adaptation of Gregory McGuire's revisionist history of OZ, however, essentially made Elphie into an Elsa-type tragic figure (i.e. a classic villain altered into a misunderstood wallflower protagonist with elemental powers [fittingly enough, ice for Elsa & fire for Elphie], with both liberated characters being conveniently originally performed by Idina Menzel [per the Original Broadway Cast stage production for _Wicked_ & the Disney film _Frozen_ as an inversion of _The Snow Queen_ fairytale]). Idina Menzel-lookalike superfan Erin Rementer even did the best mashup of _Defying Gravity_ & _Let It Go_ appropriately titled _Let It Defy Gravity_ which can be heard here: ruclips.net/video/syhdAiDxJTs/видео.html
I’m an adult and I still love this classic movie 🎥🥰👍🏻
A great classic film. Every time I see it I think of my father seeing it first run at the age of 10. He told the story of my great aunt Marge taking him to see it at the Jane Pickens Theater in Newport, RI in the summer of 1939. (The theater is still there!) The impact of the movie must have been amazing. Talking pictures only came out 10 years earlier and it was one of the first color movies. What a memory.
Houses DO fly in tornados, usually as kindling (i.e. in pieces) but, people have been known to hide in their bathtub and be thrown miles away, surviving it all. It doesn't look like the house had a foundation (i.e. house wasn't anchored to the ground), so it'd be easier for the house to be lifted into the air, in 1 piece, without being destroyed. However, I don't think it very likely that it would LAND and stay intact. Oops !!! Anyway, Merry Christmas 🎈🎉🎁🍰🙌👏🎶✨💥, girls, and have a Happy New Year !!!
Someone found the lion suit and saved it, I think you can see it appraised on antique roadshow!
This was on earlier on TV today, which was great! I love this movie but it's so sad what happened behind the making of this film. My mom told me about how Judy Garland was abused. 😔 Every time I see this, I'm amazed by how it turned out but feel so bad for what Judy went through to play Dorothy's role.
Same here. The others went through bad stuff too.