This would come on TV once a year when I was a kid. My mom would always bake a lemon cake for some reason. It became a tradition. My sister and I loved it, and would look forward to it every year growing up. Thanks Mom
Of course! That's why it was so exciting! It only came on once per year. My sister and I would get our comforter, pillows and don't forget snacks! There was no such thing as stopping a movie so if you had to do something, you better wait until commercial and pray your back before it started up again! We looked forward to the shows that only came on once a year whether it was Christmas or Halloween. I think it sort of ruins it for the kids today. They can watch anything all year long and I think in a way, they miss out on the anticipation that we felt. I mean, we waited an entire year for these specials to come on! I have to admit I'm still a kid at heart and love watching these wonderful classics. . Of course its about the excitement but most of all, it's truly about the memories we share with family.
That is an amazing tradition. I'm glad you got to have that bond with your mom! Lots of people don't get a bond with family like that so always be thankful :)
I remember it coming on every year around October or November on the local CBS affiliate. One year we finally had a VCR and recorded a fuzzy reception copy and must have watched that it hundreds of times over the next few years. Haven't watched it in a long time but it hits hard with the nostalgia. I am the only one left alive and it makes me a bit sad to know those nights will be gone and forgotten by the world when I go but it is nice to look back on for now.
Im 23 but for some reason this intro always gived me the feels and makes me feel nostalgic for a time that i didn't exist in. This movie will forever be engrained in my heart forever. Timeless masterpiece.
@angrymobsters1599 I'm 21 and feel the same way! My grandma was born in 1922 and was 17 when this movie came out. I often wonder about if she saw this movie in the theatre, or what she thought about it.
I've noticed whenever I'm stressed or upset about something I always come back to just this opening of the movie I'll of course watch the rest of the movie but it's this opening number that can put me at ease or make my panic attacks calm down idk this movie is a gift I treasure
AlexM 8262 omg am the exact same it also helps me sleep must be because it takes us back to when we were kids and makes us feel happy and secure and minds us of xmas
Even though i was born over 50 years after it came out, i feel truly blessed to have had this film be a big part of my childhood. A timeless masterpiece.
I’m 20 and I love this movie as well. It just has this unique magical vibe to it, and the fact that this movie is 83 years old and still holds up today is incredible. The Wizard of Oz is truly a timeless classic
"... and to the Young in Heart, we dedicate this picture" + the cello solo/ those orchestrations... all of the tears. Just gorgeous. What a gift this film and musical score has been to generations.
It is amazing how it starts with triumphal horns, a middle melody and the theme "ding-dong the witch is dead" is played by brass instruments followed by a choir making the sound of a tornado that leads to the title of the film. Those are just the incredible first 20 seconds of this film.
My grandmother got me watching this. I was 5 years old, (1979) and I was bored. She put on this movie. At that time, it came on every year around Easter on CBS. I saw that it was in black and white and thought, "This is boring. I don't like black and white movies." She let me grumble on. But once the movie turned into color, and Dorothy lands in Oz, I became so fascinated!!!! It's been my favorite movie ever since! We would watch it every year together. Sadly, she ended up with Alzheimer's and couldn't remember that we watched it together every year. But I would put the movie on anyway whenever I saw that it was airing. She's resting in peace now. Every time I watch it, I think of her. RIP Grandma.
So because the production was fucked means he can’t enjoy the film. I mean if I were ray, Bret, buddy, Judy, or anyone else who made this film I’d want that shut to be worth it
Megan Did you know that motif that opens the film, playing over the Leo the Lion roaring, is the same motif that plays when Glinda the Good is either arriving or leaving in her 'bubble' thing? Only when it's played for Glinda it's quite sped up and played on a vibraphone-like instrument
The one thing about this film and other old films is that its timeless. That's how you know it was one of the greatest films ever made. A grandmother who was born in 1930 loved it and a person born in 2004 loves it.
I love the overture as much as the film. Considering it was 1939, the music, special effects, costumes, and entire production were testimony to the expertise of everyone involved.
I feel bad for kids these days, when I was a kid, this would turn up on television once a year, and it was an event! the next day, you were to report if you hid your eyes every time the wicked witch came on! and you were expected to tell the truth. I remember watching it one year at my besties Joanies house, where I also ate my first McDonalds! one of the best sleepovers ever!
I first saw this movie on tv when I was maybe 4-5 with my dad and my brother back in the 2000’s. It actually took a few years for me to rewatch the movie due to how scary it was for a little autistic child like myself. My brother told me I was hiding under my blanket with my teddy bear during the scary moments but I somehow sat through the whole thing. I’m 21 now and I still think this movie is still scary but a fantastic watch.
Takes me back to seeing this first time as a kid and just loving it.Scarecrow was my fav of the group.Hearing this music just gets me choked up and teary eyed that Ill never be able to go back to those days.
TBS used to play this movie as an entire event when I was growing up and it was so magically scarily enticing to me that I treasure those memories. One of my favorites :)
My wife and i just watch it at the theater today for an 80th anniversary showing. It was graet. The audience was from ages 0 To probably 80 ish. I thought i was going to be the only one to statr applauding when it ended but the whole audience broke out in applause. I hope my wife didn't notice the tear in my eye LOL . 💜 You Judy.
I watchThe Wizard of Oz on March 5th and June 9th. My Gramma Feeney's Birthday and anniversary of her passing. Since I was little I've watched it , I luv it.
And the most perfect, the most magnificent, the most grandiose, the most memorable. Herbert Stothart richly deserved the Academy Award he received for his brilliant and beautiful orchestrations.
I remember watching this movie in school as a kid and I really loved it. I'm even reading one of the books it was based on now because reading really helps with stress relief.
The Wizard of Oz is still the greatest movie of all time. Greatest soundtrack too. It's magic that can't be replicated. I have the best childhood memories of rewinding the VHS tape over and over. Watching it now takes me back to the happiest times of my life.
This movies make me feel so much, it would come on the TV once a year around Christmas in the UK when i was a kid, i looked forward to it every year, now when i hear the opening music it takes me right back, love it so much.
I can still remember the first time I watched this film with my parents I'm just 8 years old back then full of innocence, and now here I am, 22 year old who is crying overt the memories this film brought back. Its just so nostalgic.
One of my favorite movies since I was little. Last year I got to watch it at a gorgeously restored old movie theater - exactly the kind of place where my grandparents would've gone to see it back in 1939. It was a truly wonderful experience.
This opening how poignant it is: the strings used in the overture, the inspired use of sepia tone seguing to brilliant technicolor. It forever gives joy and longing and hope to all that watch.
I kinda remember that once when I was a kid, I was watching a black and white movie but then I had to turn the tv off as my grandparents and me were off to visit my great grandma. Never did I come across the movie, up until now
This movie is a cousin tradition every yr never missed it we would go to the grandparents house spend the night when shown our grandparents would make us a huge bowl of buttered popcorn to share while watching it and now my cousin and i are in our 60s and she lives about 8 hrs away our grandparents are gone now but we still share this movie i bought her and i the limited edition copy so she can watch it anytime if we cant be together
I watched this movie again the other day, I thought "Uncle Henry" looked and sounded familiar. He was played by Charlie Grapewin, he was born in 1869. He appeared in over 100 films, I remember him as "Grandpa Joad" from "The Grapes of Wrath". He appeared in the 1903 Broadway version of "The Wizard of Oz", 36 years before he was in the famous film.
Charley had been a trapeze artist in his teens, and this movie was not his first association with "The Wizard of Oz." He was in a touring company of the musical extravaganza based on the book which was such a huge hit in the first decade of the 20th century. I don't know if he played a main character (though he'd have done for the Scarecrow) or was in the ensemble, but he was there. :-)
@@MaskedMan66 "The Grapes of Wrath" is a classic movie about the Great Depression. I was a projectionist at a drive in, my dad was a projectionist also, so I'm pretty big on movies, particularly classic ones. "The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939.[2] The book won the National Book Award[3] and Pulitzer Prize[4] for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962 The Grapes of Wrath is frequently read in American high school and college literature classes due to its historical context and enduring legacy.[6][7] A celebrated Hollywood film version, starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford, was released in 1940." If that doesn't get you just busting excited about the Great Depression, try this clip from "Gold Diggers of 1933". Ginger Rogers apparently practiced long an hard to sing a verse in "pig Latin", (the same year Adolph Hitler came to power)--ruclips.net/video/UJOjTNuuEVw/видео.html
The first time I remember watching it was in 1960 when I was 8 years old. My sister and I curled up together and we loved it. It came on every year in February and if you missed it you had to wait till the next year. to see it again. It became a family tradition. The Wizard was re-released in theaters in the late 90s. I took my daughter to see it. I had never thought I would get to see it on the big screen. I was absolutely thrilled. I will always love Judy Garland and The Wizard of Oz.
same. i think of all the little kids who once saw this movie in theatres, who are now either grandparents, or have passed on. reminds me that our old were once young, and that we the young will one day be old
I think the first time I saw this movie I was about 3 1/2 years old and all I could remember was Dorothy‘s bright red shoes I’m now about to be 26 tomorrow and now I have a five-year-old daughter who is about to watch this movie for the first time ! I’m so excited to be able to pass this on to her as my mom did for me! ♥️🙏
@@AliFoxx715 Did she like it when he gave them gifts anyway? And you can tell her that in the books, where the Land of Oz is real, the Wizard came back and learned real magic, and became a real Wizard after all. :-)
Sometimes overlooked and of huge importance to this magnificent film was the soundtrack. Just incredible. I think the music won an Oscar. Also costumes by the legendary MGM designer Adrian-just enormously talented-responsible for the women's shoulder pad looks late 1930s-1940's. MGM spent so much money on the film I don't think it recouped its costs until later on being re-issued. What a year for films
Outside the Disney Animation canon, this was my first exposure to the magic of Hollywood's Golden Age. And yet, i never got into that era of movies until my early teen years. I've not seen the Wizard of Oz in a while until almost a week ago.
@Laurenteam Queen backup acc She was allowed to eat! And it wasn't a matter of her being "fat," it was a matter of her being a rather voluptuous 16 year-old playing a child. So she was put on a diet in the hopes that she would trim down a little.
@@laurencorrigan2356 That draconian requirement that she not be "fat" for this role was unnecessary, as throughout it she wore a loose fitting, dirndl-skirted jumper and blouson blouse. And despite the younger-child age of the character Dorothy in the book, no viewer of the film found any incongruity in its Dorothy looking like a budding teenager--it actually gave more motivation for her budding restiveness. And a slightly "pleasingly plump," well-fed look befit the then health and beauty ideal for females, and added credibility to her image as a US Midwest hog-and-chicken-arm girl.
@@JudgeJulieLit Not "a little chicken broth"; they didn't starve her, that wouldn't be a good idea when she was going to be working. And no tobacco; that would have wasted valuable filming time; plus, it was not considered proper for teenage girls to smoke. Quit believing all these ridiculous lies.
Loved watching this every March when I was a kid. It was special then because you knew if you missed it you had to wait another whole year to get to watch it now adays you can just watch movies or specials any time you want it really takes away from it.
Love how there is that little scary chill in the music in the first 15 seconds foretelling there will be some serious scary parts to the movie. A "something wicked this way will come" clue. Always gave me goosebumps as a kid. The Wizard of Oz movie is one of the greatest good vs. evil movies ever made....made even better that it's timeless. As fascinating and thrilling to little kids in 2021 as it was to them in 1939.
My nephew was on the stage of Oz when he was a little child. I was raughing very much, when I saw the cute story. He went to other prefecture to act the same role. We prayed his success on the stage. Those are happy memories.
The fact is 1939 is considered the greatest year in Hollywood History there are at least 25 movies released that year considered high water marks in film production, probably more. A peak probably never to be surpassed, but I do agree Wizard of Oz is indeed something special.
It doesn’t matter how the cast went through a living hell while filming this, it doesn’t matter how this was made in the late 30s, this movie will forever be timeless
This would come on TV once a year when I was a kid. My mom would always bake a lemon cake for some reason. It became a tradition. My sister and I loved it, and would look forward to it every year growing up. Thanks Mom
Sounds delicious!
How delicious were your mother's lemon cakes? :)
Of course! That's why it was so exciting! It only came on once per year. My sister and I would get our comforter, pillows and don't forget snacks! There was no such thing as stopping a movie so if you had to do something, you better wait until commercial and pray your back before it started up again! We looked forward to the shows that only came on once a year whether it was Christmas or Halloween. I think it sort of ruins it for the kids today. They can watch anything all year long and I think in a way, they miss out on the anticipation that we felt. I mean, we waited an entire year for these specials to come on! I have to admit I'm still a kid at heart and love watching these wonderful classics. . Of course its about the excitement but most of all, it's truly about the memories we share with family.
That is an amazing tradition. I'm glad you got to have that bond with your mom! Lots of people don't get a bond with family like that so always be thankful :)
Marvelous : )
No matter how old I get this opening still makes me feel like a kid again... this movie will always be magical
Indeed the most magical film ever made
You know what? I think I remember the very first time I ever saw The Wizard Of Oz!
@@michaelsheehan8075 When was that?
I remember it coming on every year around October or November on the local CBS affiliate. One year we finally had a VCR and recorded a fuzzy reception copy and must have watched that it hundreds of times over the next few years. Haven't watched it in a long time but it hits hard with the nostalgia. I am the only one left alive and it makes me a bit sad to know those nights will be gone and forgotten by the world when I go but it is nice to look back on for now.
@@murrayshekelberg9754 Millions of people from those days-- 1956 to 1991-- are still with us, you may be assured!
Im 23 but for some reason this intro always gived me the feels and makes me feel nostalgic for a time that i didn't exist in. This movie will forever be engrained in my heart forever. Timeless masterpiece.
I totally agree. Very timeless!!!
Legends never die...
@angrymobsters1599 I'm 21 and feel the same way! My grandma was born in 1922 and was 17 when this movie came out. I often wonder about if she saw this movie in the theatre, or what she thought about it.
I'm a Chinese,and I am also 23 years old now.This movie was my favourite movie when I was a child.
@@jaceyarnett4441 That means your grandma was the same age as Judy! 🙂
I absolutely love how those first six notes sound, heralding in a great classic to the screen. You KNOW what you’re about to see when you hear that.
Those first six notes are the Glinda theme. I’ve seen the movie a hundred times and I never realized that until it was pointed out to me.
Did you know those first notes in the Glinda theme or Intro are used rearranged as WWW theme! Listen carefully.
Complete with the lion’s roar.
I've noticed whenever I'm stressed or upset about something I always come back to just this opening of the movie I'll of course watch the rest of the movie but it's this opening number that can put me at ease or make my panic attacks calm down idk this movie is a gift I treasure
AlexM 8262 omg am the exact same it also helps me sleep must be because it takes us back to when we were kids and makes us feel happy and secure and minds us of xmas
I don't suffer from panic attacks, but I do like to watch this if I am feeling stressed... so, I know what you mean...
I agree with you 100%. When I was little I loved this movie and couldn't wait for it to be on t.v arounf Easter. Comforting.
This my all time favorite!!! I have seen it at least 40 times!! It transforms me and I feel like I actually there. I LUV IT!!!
It's helps me a lot with stress. The opening music lifts your problems away. It's so powerful!
One of the greatest and most iconic overtures in all of film history.
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You stated it perfectly
Yes it was the masterpiece of the 20th century
Yes!
Up there with Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music
I'm 63 now and hearing this has a power of force and innocence that is overwhelming. Magical in every way and otherworldly
I'm 19 and I can't imagine your nostalgia.
God bless you ❤
One of the few movies that will still be around and loved 500 years from now.
Sure it will.....short of some unforeseen cataclysmic event.
There's no logic to your hate just pure stupidity.
Mr. Extreme Jesus 500 years my god 😳
Judy Garland was Episcopalian.
This movie will...that's how timeless it is
Even though i was born over 50 years after it came out, i feel truly blessed to have had this film be a big part of my childhood. A timeless masterpiece.
Exactly! I'm only 13 and grew up with this movie, I am a huge fan of this amazing movie
I’m 20 and I love this movie as well. It just has this unique magical vibe to it, and the fact that this movie is 83 years old and still holds up today is incredible. The Wizard of Oz is truly a timeless classic
how old are you now?
@@cassiegray5158 I'm 18 now, I probably should've said "over 60 years" instead of 50 :D
The age of the viewer doesn't matter when a movie is timeless. ;-)
"... and to the Young in Heart, we dedicate this picture" + the cello solo/ those orchestrations... all of the tears. Just gorgeous. What a gift this film and musical score has been to generations.
It is amazing how it starts with triumphal horns, a middle melody and the theme "ding-dong the witch is dead" is played by brass instruments followed by a choir making the sound of a tornado that leads to the title of the film. Those are just the incredible first 20 seconds of this film.
My grandmother got me watching this. I was 5 years old, (1979) and I was bored. She put on this movie. At that time, it came on every year around Easter on CBS. I saw that it was in black and white and thought, "This is boring. I don't like black and white movies." She let me grumble on. But once the movie turned into color, and Dorothy lands in Oz, I became so fascinated!!!! It's been my favorite movie ever since! We would watch it every year together. Sadly, she ended up with Alzheimer's and couldn't remember that we watched it together every year. But I would put the movie on anyway whenever I saw that it was airing. She's resting in peace now. Every time I watch it, I think of her. RIP Grandma.
This opening fanfare is like an instant time machine to me. I'm 64 now, but remember this "once a year" broadcast on TV back as far as 3 years old.
Those were the days!
0:14 The choir part still gives me chills! They did a phenomenal job sounding like a tornado 🌪️
I never noticed that before!
uhhh yeah
I always thought it was the munchikans😅
@@kristinreign8026 Why? It doesn't sound anything like them.
Yea I thought it was wind blowing all this time
Even just that opening Db6 orchestra stab... takes you RIGHT back! It's just MAGICAL, the whole thing.
I love this movie. I know I am getting older when this opening brings tears.
raymond kaczmarek do u know the secrets?
So because the production was fucked means he can’t enjoy the film. I mean if I were ray, Bret, buddy, Judy, or anyone else who made this film I’d want that shut to be worth it
@@sofia-xi4kk There are no secrets.
@@jjonahjameson8934 Who's Bret?
@@jjonahjameson8934 The production was just hard work, that's all.
literally the best opening orchestral music to any movie i know of.
This and Gone with the Wind.
Megan Did you know that motif that opens the film, playing over the Leo the Lion roaring, is the same motif that plays when Glinda the Good is either arriving or leaving in her 'bubble' thing? Only when it's played for Glinda it's quite sped up and played on a vibraphone-like instrument
Megan samw
The wizard of Oz along with Mary Poppins and Bebknobs and Broomsticks I would say.
Yes. I would agree. Still gives me goose bumps.
The Wizard of Oz will always be a part of me. This is an outstanding movie that all ages today need to see! You'll fall in love with it!
Judy Garland she was in movie theater in 1939 MGM my favorite part in class starts in a new 🆕
The one thing about this film and other old films is that its timeless. That's how you know it was one of the greatest films ever made. A grandmother who was born in 1930 loved it and a person born in 2004 loves it.
Timeless is one of my favorite words in the English language
2023❤
i sobbed listening to this just now. this was probably the first movie my parents ever showed me and i fell in love with it
The Wizard of Oz will always be one of my favorite movies. i remember when I did it as a play with my second graders.
I love the overture as much as the film. Considering it was 1939, the music, special effects, costumes, and entire production were testimony to the expertise of everyone involved.
I feel bad for kids these days, when I was a kid, this would turn up on television once a year, and it was an event! the next day, you were to report if you hid your eyes every time the wicked witch came on! and you were expected to tell the truth. I remember watching it one year at my besties Joanies house, where I also ate my first McDonalds! one of the best sleepovers ever!
If it came on Wed or Sun night, I'm ashamed to say I would fake illness so I could stay home from church to watch it. This & that WillyWonka movie.
violet Duncan this story is so wholesome. Thank you
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I first saw this movie on tv when I was maybe 4-5 with my dad and my brother back in the 2000’s. It actually took a few years for me to rewatch the movie due to how scary it was for a little autistic child like myself.
My brother told me I was hiding under my blanket with my teddy bear during the scary moments but I somehow sat through the whole thing. I’m 21 now and I still think this movie is still scary but a fantastic watch.
Takes me back to seeing this first time as a kid and just loving it.Scarecrow was my fav of the group.Hearing this music just gets me choked up and teary eyed that Ill never be able to go back to those days.
I love this movie with all my heart. It's my favourite. Everything about it is so special, so full of magic. And this intro is sooo iconic❤
Harold Arlen wrote these absolutely exquisite melodies which comprise this opening of the film. The lush orchestration gathers your heart.
David Thomson also major credit to Herbert Stothart, who wrote the musical underscore.
Yes. He won an Oscar for his scoring.
@@MediaLover194 Score, not underscore. :-)
TBS used to play this movie as an entire event when I was growing up and it was so magically scarily enticing to me that I treasure those memories. One of my favorites :)
The opening Glinda theme over Leo always gave me chills as a kid. It was so exciting and enchanting and wonderous.
I've seen this a million times and had the opportunity to go today with wifey and see this in theaters! Momentary escapism. Simpler times growing up.
Next year is the 80th Anniversary of The Wizard of Oz!
I know, can you believe it?!??
mariofan 520 omg that's incredible. Judy Garland would've been 90 something by now
+Steve Dwyer She'd be ninety-six.
Two years from now will be the 120th anniversary of the book.
1939-2019! My favorite movie my whole life(1979...40 years January 11th)
This takes me right back to childhood. My mom was from Kansas and I’ve always felt a special connection to this movie
One of the most fun and entertaining movies to exist. I missed the cast may the all rest in peace .
One of The All Time Greatest Movies Ever Made and So Many Great Quotes in The Wizard of Oz
I’m almost 69 and always looked forward to watching this each year, as I grew up. Everything is a memory which adds more memories.
My wife and i just watch it at the theater today for an 80th anniversary showing. It was graet. The audience was from ages 0 To probably 80 ish. I thought i was going to be the only one to statr applauding when it ended but the whole audience broke out in applause. I hope my wife didn't notice the tear in my eye LOL . 💜 You Judy.
My wife and I have seen it on an open-air screen for a big event, and also in theaters and at our local drive-in. There's nothing like it, is there?
I watchThe Wizard of Oz on March 5th and June 9th. My Gramma Feeney's Birthday and anniversary of her passing. Since I was little I've watched it , I luv it.
The most iconic opening in movie history.
And the most perfect, the most magnificent, the most grandiose, the most memorable. Herbert Stothart richly deserved the Academy Award he received for his brilliant and beautiful orchestrations.
I remember watching this movie in school as a kid and I really loved it. I'm even reading one of the books it was based on now because reading really helps with stress relief.
This intro is absolutely breathtaking. I know at one time the MGM Studio Orchestra was considered among the best in the world. This is spectacular.
Even though I was born in 2003, I grew up watching this movie. The intro gives me nostalgia
stg born in 2000 feel exact same way
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The Wizard of Oz is still the greatest movie of all time. Greatest soundtrack too. It's magic that can't be replicated. I have the best childhood memories of rewinding the VHS tape over and over. Watching it now takes me back to the happiest times of my life.
This movies make me feel so much, it would come on the TV once a year around Christmas in the UK when i was a kid, i looked forward to it every year, now when i hear the opening music it takes me right back, love it so much.
The “Somewhere over the rainbow” in the beginning is my favorite :)
I can still remember the first time I watched this film with my parents I'm just 8 years old back then full of innocence, and now here I am, 22 year old who is crying overt the memories this film brought back. Its just so nostalgic.
One of my favorite movies since I was little. Last year I got to watch it at a gorgeously restored old movie theater - exactly the kind of place where my grandparents would've gone to see it back in 1939. It was a truly wonderful experience.
I've been blessed to see it many times on the big screen-- one time at a drive-in!
Same here... the Indiana Theater in Terre Haute... HUGE screen, built in the 20's. You miss so much on just a TV.
The last time i saw a classic on the big screen was Meet Me In St Louis at my local Cinemark
I saw it back in 2013 in 3d and i was amazed that an old movie can be restored in 3d technology
one of the best movie ever made. they used show this on tv in my area when i was a kid every march. always watched it.
Best overture in cinema history. Such a powerful start!!! Never fails to give me chills.
I was not alive when this came out, but in 2013 and 14 this used to sometimes come on tv and I would watch it all the time I loved it and still do! 😃
Does this randomly make anyone else cry?
100% yes it does..
Zig Zog Yes, i'm preparing tissues to wipe my tears every second
the music and memories ive had with it
happ y
Yes 😭
This opening how poignant it is: the strings used in the overture, the inspired use of sepia tone seguing to brilliant technicolor. It forever gives joy and longing and hope to all that watch.
That opening medley always gets me right here.
Thursday 4th April 2024. The Wizard of Oz is a beautiful family film. Thank you. Best of luck. From Virginia Clark. 🌈 🌟 🐴🦋😉
I kinda remember that once when I was a kid, I was watching a black and white movie but then I had to turn the tv off as my grandparents and me were off to visit my great grandma. Never did I come across the movie, up until now
The most powerful, and dramatic 😢 introduction to a movie 👏 wow wow wow 👌 👏 😮
BEST. OPENING. THEME. EVER.
One of those movies where I don’t have to look at the screen but still know exactly what it is after 1 second of it being on.
I loved this movie. It was on TV every Easter and I watched it with my cousins when everyone seemed to get together more with family in the 70's. 🌟💫✨️
It's such an amazing, dramatic opening
This movie is a cousin tradition every yr never missed it we would go to the grandparents house spend the night when shown our grandparents would make us a huge bowl of buttered popcorn to share while watching it and now my cousin and i are in our 60s and she lives about 8 hrs away our grandparents are gone now but we still share this movie i bought her and i the limited edition copy so she can watch it anytime if we cant be together
Love the lion roar and the music introduction in the beginning! ^^
This movie was amazing thank you for showing me this movie
I watched this movie again the other day, I thought "Uncle Henry" looked and sounded familiar. He was played by Charlie Grapewin, he was born in 1869. He appeared in over 100 films, I remember him as "Grandpa Joad" from "The Grapes of Wrath". He appeared in the 1903 Broadway version of "The Wizard of Oz", 36 years before he was in the famous film.
Charley had been a trapeze artist in his teens, and this movie was not his first association with "The Wizard of Oz." He was in a touring company of the musical extravaganza based on the book which was such a huge hit in the first decade of the 20th century. I don't know if he played a main character (though he'd have done for the Scarecrow) or was in the ensemble, but he was there. :-)
He also played Dr. Tatum in the 1934 movie version of _Anne of Green Gables._
@@MaskedMan66 I'll always remember him as "Grandpa Joad".
@@clintonearlwalker I have to confess that I've never seen _The Grapes of Wrath._ But maybe I ought to.
@@MaskedMan66 "The Grapes of Wrath" is a classic movie about the Great Depression. I was a projectionist at a drive in, my dad was a projectionist also, so I'm pretty big on movies, particularly classic ones.
"The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939.[2] The book won the National Book Award[3] and Pulitzer Prize[4] for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962
The Grapes of Wrath is frequently read in American high school and college literature classes due to its historical context and enduring legacy.[6][7] A celebrated Hollywood film version, starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford, was released in 1940."
If that doesn't get you just busting excited about the Great Depression, try this clip from "Gold Diggers of 1933". Ginger Rogers apparently practiced long an hard to sing a verse in "pig Latin", (the same year Adolph Hitler came to power)--ruclips.net/video/UJOjTNuuEVw/видео.html
The first time I remember watching it was in 1960 when I was 8 years old. My sister and I curled up together and we loved it. It came on every year in February and if you missed it you had to wait till the next year. to see it again. It became a family tradition.
The Wizard was re-released in theaters in the late 90s. I took my daughter to see it. I had never thought I would get to see it on the big screen. I was absolutely thrilled. I will always love Judy Garland and The Wizard of Oz.
Incredible that this film is nearly 85 years old, yet still has such staying power.
When we were kids, this always showed at Christmas time. What was the connection, I never knew but we watched it every year.
I still don’t get the connection either
What an absolutely brilliant composition!
One of the greatest films ever made. Absolutely love it I’m 55 now
This opening brings me tears, as it makes me think about people who I have lost for some reason music is a strange thing
i know.
@@scain54 Me, too.
same. i think of all the little kids who once saw this movie in theatres, who are now either grandparents, or have passed on. reminds me that our old were once young, and that we the young will one day be old
Such an nostalgic film. Reminds me of my childhood. There's some legitimately scry parts in this. I own it. Watching it now on DVD.
The scary parts are there deliberately.
I think the first time I saw this movie I was about 3 1/2 years old and all I could remember was Dorothy‘s bright red shoes I’m now about to be 26 tomorrow and now I have a five-year-old daughter who is about to watch this movie for the first time ! I’m so excited to be able to pass this on to her as my mom did for me! ♥️🙏
How did she like it?
@@MaskedMan66 she loved it! But didn’t like the part where the oz wasn’t real she got mad that it was just a “regular man” 😅🤣
@@AliFoxx715 Did she like it when he gave them gifts anyway? And you can tell her that in the books, where the Land of Oz is real, the Wizard came back and learned real magic, and became a real Wizard after all. :-)
Sometimes overlooked and of huge importance to this magnificent film was the soundtrack. Just incredible. I think the music won an Oscar. Also costumes by the legendary MGM designer Adrian-just enormously talented-responsible for the women's shoulder pad looks late 1930s-1940's. MGM spent so much money on the film I don't think it recouped its costs until later on being re-issued. What a year for films
0:32 I feel an urge to point out that my favourite actor is mentioned here. If you must know, he was the Tin Man.
One of the greatest movies of all time! It will always hold a special place in my heart!!
This brings chills to me. Its so beautiful.
Outside the Disney Animation canon, this was my first exposure to the magic of Hollywood's Golden Age. And yet, i never got into that era of movies until my early teen years. I've not seen the Wizard of Oz in a while until almost a week ago.
I wonder how many musicians and conductors were inspired to take up their professions because of this glorious opening.
Thousands, I'm sure. :-)
We actually did this in band/orchestra. It was glorious!
Thank you for all of these clips. It was very nice to watch again, thank you!
Im 30 now, when i was around 5 or 6 my grandma would put this on vhs every Saturday night. I go to sleep to this video every night.
Judy Garland was absolutely beautiful. Amazing film.
Did u know judy was not allowed food at that tiem she was not allowed to be fat for the movie well dorthoys real name is judy
@Laurenteam Queen backup acc She was allowed to eat! And it wasn't a matter of her being "fat," it was a matter of her being a rather voluptuous 16 year-old playing a child. So she was put on a diet in the hopes that she would trim down a little.
@@MaskedMan66 At L. B. Mayer orders, for this growing girl a "diet" of a little chicken broth a day, black coffee and cigarettes.
@@laurencorrigan2356 That draconian requirement that she not be "fat" for this role was unnecessary, as throughout it she wore a loose fitting, dirndl-skirted jumper and blouson blouse. And despite the younger-child age of the character Dorothy in the book, no viewer of the film found any incongruity in its Dorothy looking like a budding teenager--it actually gave more motivation for her budding restiveness. And a slightly "pleasingly plump," well-fed look befit the then health and beauty ideal for females, and added credibility to her image as a US Midwest hog-and-chicken-arm girl.
@@JudgeJulieLit Not "a little chicken broth"; they didn't starve her, that wouldn't be a good idea when she was going to be working. And no tobacco; that would have wasted valuable filming time; plus, it was not considered proper for teenage girls to smoke. Quit believing all these ridiculous lies.
Loved watching this every March when I was a kid. It was special then because you knew if you missed it you had to wait another whole year to get to watch it now adays you can just watch movies or specials any time you want it really takes away from it.
Love it...the brief 'ding dong the witch is dead' is so awesome, as is all of it!
I love this movie so much.
this is the best book to film, I have ever seen👍👏🏆
Love how there is that little scary chill in the music in the first 15 seconds foretelling there will be some serious scary parts to the movie. A "something wicked this way will come" clue. Always gave me goosebumps as a kid. The Wizard of Oz movie is one of the greatest good vs. evil movies ever made....made even better that it's timeless. As fascinating and thrilling to little kids in 2021 as it was to them in 1939.
If you mean the Greek Chorus-type wail, I always took that as a presaging of the cyclone.
@@MaskedMan66 I never thought it that way before
@@manuelorozco7760 Just my personal impression, but it seems likely.
@@MaskedMan66 Maybe i have maybe i have not
One of the best movies anyone could ever watch!
My nephew was on the stage of Oz when he was a little child. I was raughing very much, when I saw the cute story. He went to other prefecture to act the same role. We prayed his success on the stage. Those are happy memories.
I can't believe that the movie is about 85 Years
It’s fascinating that this masterpiece was made in 1939. I love this movie, I’ve been watching it since I was a little girl❤️
The fact is 1939 is considered the greatest year in Hollywood History there are at least 25 movies released that year considered high water marks in film production, probably more. A peak probably never to be surpassed, but I do agree Wizard of Oz is indeed something special.
It doesn’t matter how the cast went through a living hell while filming this, it doesn’t matter how this was made in the late 30s, this movie will forever be timeless
They didn't go through "a living hell," just, as Jack Haley simply put it, "a lot of hard work."
This was my favorite childhood movie ❤❤❤
Same and i miss having fun early the childhood
This is one of my favorite old movies
Orchestras from pre-stereo days hit on a different level.
Like Fine Wine This Movie Gets Better With Age!
Thank you for posting these, when I want to escape the real world, this is where I go😊
I Love The Wizard Of Oz 1939 It’s One Of My Favourite Classic Movies Of All Time ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
This movie is amazing! It’s so underrated I’m writing the twisted version of it with my friends for school and we’re really into it!
Underrated???? It's one of the most popular movies in the world!
The MGM into of this movie gives it a adrenaline racing feel.
It has a real tone of doom and drama yet to unfold!
One Of The Greatest Opening Scenes Of All Time 💯
This movie was way before I was born.