How all of these streamers had never before seen the Wizard of Oz before these videos is shocking. As a child, this was mandatory viewing not just for me, but for all the children I knew and know now.
Yes,70 year old here and this always aired just once a year and we were front and center to watch! Of course,in my home,we couldn’t appreciate the change to color because we only had a B&W t.v.! But we all looked forward to seeing this year after year! It DID create a bit of a problem for me in that for years,I had a recurring nightmare of standing in my window,watching that tornado coming down my street! It’s fun seeing new reactions to this old favorite!
To pull off the color reveal, that is not Judy Garland walking up to the door, but her double. The double, including her dress, and the entire set was painted in sepia. When she opens the door, Judy Garland came from out of frame and continued the scene in Technicolor. One of her doubles, Caren Doll, is still alive at 105.
They hadn't invented color film yet. This was Technicolor, a patented process using 3 cameras loaded with b&w film, but shot through 3 filters: one for red, one for green, one for blue. It was projected the same way, with 3 projectors loaded with 3 b&w filmstrips, projected through 3 R-G-B filters. Using these primary colors, you can re-create the whole color spectrum. Very complicated to pull off, and very EXPENSIVE. But it looked absolutely gorgeous, as you can see in this amazing movie. Color film as we know it wasn't introduced until later, in the 1950s.
@LukeLovesRose i love how people use the word "woke" when they disagree with something. Since it means "enlightened" i shouldn't be too surprised though.
@johnnieknight1879 Being Canadian and British educated i spell colour with a u in there lol! yes those other two films you mentioned were also in COLOUR funnily enough Gone with the Wind won Best Picture beating out the Wizard of OZ now decades later far more people remember Oz over that log winded costume fest . CHEERS .
When my little sister watched this for the first time at first she thought it would be a boring B&W movie, then the twister caught her attention...then when that door opened her face just lit up with wonder. "WHERE ARE WE??" And she ended up loving the movie...even crying at the end. =) She was 6 when she first saw it.
Black and white movies were common/usual into the 1960s. "Psycho", "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane", "A Hard Day's Night" "The Road to Hong Kong", were b&w films.
However, this isn't a B/W film - the entire film was filmed in color and the "b/w" portions were sepia toned frame-by-frame include the parts around the door when she opens it.
Younger viewers probably don't realize, this was made in the earliest days of technicolor. Films were always in in black and white except for oddly colored art films. Audiences were absolutely blown Away by the revelation of color.
They had been making color movies for quite some time, it just wasn’t as common because shooting technic color was very expensive so only the highest budget films did. But I’ve seen multiple movies in color that were earlier than this one. I think this one was the first one that ever used it as effectively though.
Clariss was the only one that has seen this movie but I love the reaction by all of these reactors with this movie. It's amazing that they haven't watched it but it's nice to see how excited they were when they watched it.
Bille Burke was the wife of showman Florenz Ziegfeld. MGM turned her down for the role of--herself, in its Academy-Award-winning "The Great Ziegfeld" (1936). Allegedly, the studio thought she was too old. The part went to Myrna Loy.
One of the greatest movies ever made. I haven't seen it in a long time, but I remember being in awe the first time I watched it. God rest Judy Garland. I wonder if people have either experienced this for the first time or rewatched it thanks to Wicked.
You're out of the woods You're out of the dark You're out of the night Step into the sun Step into the light Keep straight ahead for the most glorious place On the face of the earth or the sky
Technicolor, Process 1 (two-color; red and green) had its debut in 1916. Only one film was shot using this process, The Gulf Between (1917). Only a short fragment survives. Technicolor, Process 2 had it debut in 1924. The second all-color feature in Process 2 Technicolor, Wanderer of the Wasteland, was released in 1924. Process 2 was also used for color sequences in such major motion pictures as The Ten Commandments (1923), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), and Ben-Hur (1925). Douglas Fairbanks' The Black Pirate (1926) was the third all-color Process 2 feature. Technicolor, Process 3 (sometimes referred to as two-strip Technicolor) had its debut in 1928. The first feature film made entirely in Technicolor, Process 3 was The Viking (1928), which had a synchronized score and sound effects. Redskin (1929), with a synchronized score, and The Mysterious Island (1929), a part-talkie, were photographed almost entirely in this process also but included some sequences in black and white. The following talkies were made entirely - or almost entirely - in Technicolor, Process 3: On with the Show! (1929) (the first all-talking color feature), Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), The Show of Shows (1929), Sally (1929), The Vagabond King (1930), Follow Thru (1930), Golden Dawn (1930), Hold Everything (1930), The Rogue Song (1930), Song of the Flame (1930), Song of the West (1930), The Life of the Party (1930), Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1930), Bride of the Regiment (1930), Mamba (1930), Whoopee! (1930), King of Jazz (1930), Under a Texas Moon (1930), Bright Lights (1930), Viennese Nights (1930), Woman Hungry (1931), Kiss Me Again (1931) and Fifty Million Frenchmen (1931). There were a few others, notably from Warner Bros. They announced 6 features to use this process, but only produced 3. Technicolor, Process 4 (three-strip technicolor), which is what The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, et al used, used special cameras manufactured to Technicolor's specifications by Mitchell Camera Corporation. Films using Process 4 required the studio(s) to hire a Technicolor Color Advisor, because colors didn't process the way they photographed. For example I believe The Yellow Brick Road was actually painted orange so that it would come out yellow. There were Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 advisors. The higher the level advisor the more the studio had to pay Technicolor. There were cheaper color systems such as Brewster Color and Multicolor (later renamed Cinecolor). Once Disney secured exclusive rights to Technicolor, Process 4 for animated shorts (if I remember correctly they had exclusive rights for 2 years, from 1932 to 1935) the other animation studios had to use alternatives. Warner Bros. used Technicolor, Process 3, off-and-on on their Merrie Melodies cartoons (but not Looney Tunes until they were able to switch to Process 4). Ub Iwerks used the Cinecolor process. Eventually the studios got tired of having to pay Technicolor, so they developed their own systems in the 1950s. This included TruColor (owned by Republic Pictures - it was so bad even they rarely used it), Warnercolor (owned by Warner Bros.) and Metrocolor (owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). For many years afterwards 'Prints by Technicolor' could be seen in the closing credits. They simply processed the negatives, manufacturing the prints that were distributed to cinemas. The Technicolor Process was not used in these cases.
It's such a classic reveal. I'm really struggling to think of a way they could do something thematically similar nowadays since color is so ubiquitous.
Yeah, it wasn't "the first" color movie. But they were very new and for many people it was their first color movie. I can't imagine how impressive this would have been to be someone's first color movie... ;-)
The movie sets of Oz were intentioanlly made to be unrealistic, fantastic. Because the nature of the story. You have to read the books to fully understand the movie
The first color movie was Walt Disney’s “Snow White”, the first live action (not animated) color movie was “The Wizard of Oz” . As a side note, Walt Disney also had the first film to contain a sound track with “Steamboat Willie” featuring Mickey Mouse.
These are commonly quoted factoids, but they're not entirely accurate. Color films were released prior to both of these, but many of them have been lost to time thanks to poor film preservation. Even then, full-length color films from the early and mid-1930s are still widely available today. The Wizard of Oz wasn't even the first live-action feature to use the Technicolor film development process. It's still a fantastic film, and its contrasting use of sepiatone and color is impressive even today, but it wasn't the first to do it, not by a long shot.
@@Boomer_Power And? Just because a character is a certain age in a book doesn't mean that's their age in the film adaptation. Ages of literary characters get changed all the time in movies. Being 10 in the book doesn't mean Judy Garland is playing 10 in the movie. But also, the point still stands of _"how are people forgetting how old Dorothy is"._ If people didn't actually read the book, then they're not "forgetting" how old Dorothy is supposed to be in the movie. And I guarantee most people who've seen _The Wizard of Oz_ have not read the book, since most people don't read. So, they're not forgetting Dorothy's age. And lastly, no, it is NOT stated how old Dorothy is in the book. The film is based on the original book and the author never once stated how old Dorothy was in it. So, that' 100% incorrect. Dorothy's age isn't stated until the 11th book, and it says she's 11 in that book (not 10). People don't even fact-check anymore.
@@theflyingfisherman7829 I never said she was 10 in the book. I simply said that her age is given in the book. That's all I said. Turn down your hostility, go lie down and take a nap.
This movie is beautiful, but it was a nightmare to make. Judy Garland often had to work up to 18 hours a day, some of the makeup for the Tin Man was toxic, and the Cowardly Lion costume was made with real lion fur and was extremely hot to wear.
The film was remastered (recolored)in 2017 .Some of the original “colors” (in 1939)were created by actually hand painting right onto the film strips! Unfortunately,there were later many reports of abuse to Judy and to the “Munchkins” during the lengthy filming. Child actors were “property” . Still a great movie,but my wonderful childhood memories of it have been tainted by some of the “realities” of 1938/1939 film practices by the big studios;MGM in this instance. Sad.
How all of these streamers had never before seen the Wizard of Oz before these videos is shocking. As a child, this was mandatory viewing not just for me, but for all the children I knew and know now.
still entertaining audiences almost 100 years later!
Yes,70 year old here and this always aired just once a year and we were front and center to watch! Of course,in my home,we couldn’t appreciate the change to color because we only had a B&W t.v.! But we all looked forward to seeing this year after year! It DID create a bit of a problem for me in that for years,I had a recurring nightmare of standing in my window,watching that tornado coming down my street! It’s fun seeing new reactions to this old favorite!
To be fair it only comes on tv about 10 times a year.
Even if you havent sat down and watched it start to finish there’s no way you dont know the plot to this movie lol
Always a start
To pull off the color reveal, that is not Judy Garland walking up to the door, but her double. The double, including her dress, and the entire set was painted in sepia. When she opens the door, Judy Garland came from out of frame and continued the scene in Technicolor. One of her doubles, Caren Doll, is still alive at 105.
It's amazing how good the color in film was back then
They hadn't invented color film yet. This was Technicolor, a patented process using 3 cameras loaded with b&w film, but shot through 3 filters: one for red, one for green, one for blue. It was projected the same way, with 3 projectors loaded with 3 b&w filmstrips, projected through 3 R-G-B filters. Using these primary colors, you can re-create the whole color spectrum. Very complicated to pull off, and very EXPENSIVE. But it looked absolutely gorgeous, as you can see in this amazing movie. Color film as we know it wasn't introduced until later, in the 1950s.
Incredibly, every single scene in this movie was shot indoors, on massive MGM sound stages.
In 1939 there were 3 notable films in color. This, "Gone With The Wind" & "Robin Hood".
We've gotta see Gone With The Wind in 4K. These woke studios really suck for withholding that experience
@LukeLovesRose i love how people use the word "woke" when they disagree with something. Since it means "enlightened" i shouldn't be too surprised though.
@@garylee3685Don't expect more from the somnambulistic sheep.
Robin Hood was in 1938.
@johnnieknight1879 Being Canadian and British educated i spell colour with a u in there lol!
yes those other two films you mentioned were also in COLOUR funnily enough Gone with the Wind won Best Picture beating out the Wizard of OZ now decades later far more people remember Oz over that log winded costume fest .
CHEERS .
I remember first watching this movie at four years old. The moment it went into color, my jaw was on the floor.
When my little sister watched this for the first time at first she thought it would be a boring B&W movie, then the twister caught her attention...then when that door opened her face just lit up with wonder. "WHERE ARE WE??" And she ended up loving the movie...even crying at the end. =) She was 6 when she first saw it.
The thought of flying monkeys scared a 4 year old me to death... Bothered me for years... lmao!
re: asbestos, the snow that puts them to sleep later is literally just pure asbestos. they just dumped asbestos on the cast lol
Black and white movies were common/usual into the 1960s. "Psycho", "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane", "A Hard Day's Night" "The Road to Hong Kong", were b&w films.
However, this isn't a B/W film - the entire film was filmed in color and the "b/w" portions were sepia toned frame-by-frame include the parts around the door when she opens it.
Younger viewers probably don't realize, this was made in the earliest days of technicolor. Films were always in in black and white except for oddly colored art films. Audiences were absolutely blown Away by the revelation of color.
They had been making color movies for quite some time, it just wasn’t as common because shooting technic color was very expensive so only the highest budget films did. But I’ve seen multiple movies in color that were earlier than this one. I think this one was the first one that ever used it as effectively though.
One of the most quoted lines in movie history. Often used in real life situations also.
I wasn't shy about using that line to describe a significant contrast in the Final Fantasy XIV video game
Not in Kansas anymore
Clariss was the only one that has seen this movie but I love the reaction by all of these reactors with this movie. It's amazing that they haven't watched it but it's nice to see how excited they were when they watched it.
Bille Burke was the wife of showman Florenz Ziegfeld. MGM turned her down for the role of--herself, in its Academy-Award-winning "The Great Ziegfeld" (1936). Allegedly, the studio thought she was too old. The part went to Myrna Loy.
One of the greatest movies ever made.
I haven't seen it in a long time, but I remember being in awe the first time I watched it.
God rest Judy Garland.
I wonder if people have either experienced this for the first time or rewatched it thanks to Wicked.
You're out of the woods
You're out of the dark
You're out of the night
Step into the sun
Step into the light
Keep straight ahead for the most glorious place
On the face of the earth or the sky
Technicolor, Process 1 (two-color; red and green) had its debut in 1916. Only one film was shot using this process, The Gulf Between (1917). Only a short fragment survives.
Technicolor, Process 2 had it debut in 1924. The second all-color feature in Process 2 Technicolor, Wanderer of the Wasteland, was released in 1924. Process 2 was also used for color sequences in such major motion pictures as The Ten Commandments (1923), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), and Ben-Hur (1925). Douglas Fairbanks' The Black Pirate (1926) was the third all-color Process 2 feature.
Technicolor, Process 3 (sometimes referred to as two-strip Technicolor) had its debut in 1928. The first feature film made entirely in Technicolor, Process 3 was The Viking (1928), which had a synchronized score and sound effects. Redskin (1929), with a synchronized score, and The Mysterious Island (1929), a part-talkie, were photographed almost entirely in this process also but included some sequences in black and white. The following talkies were made entirely - or almost entirely - in Technicolor, Process 3: On with the Show! (1929) (the first all-talking color feature), Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), The Show of Shows (1929), Sally (1929), The Vagabond King (1930), Follow Thru (1930), Golden Dawn (1930), Hold Everything (1930), The Rogue Song (1930), Song of the Flame (1930), Song of the West (1930), The Life of the Party (1930), Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1930), Bride of the Regiment (1930), Mamba (1930), Whoopee! (1930), King of Jazz (1930), Under a Texas Moon (1930), Bright Lights (1930), Viennese Nights (1930), Woman Hungry (1931), Kiss Me Again (1931) and Fifty Million Frenchmen (1931). There were a few others, notably from Warner Bros. They announced 6 features to use this process, but only produced 3.
Technicolor, Process 4 (three-strip technicolor), which is what The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, et al used, used special cameras manufactured to Technicolor's specifications by Mitchell Camera Corporation. Films using Process 4 required the studio(s) to hire a Technicolor Color Advisor, because colors didn't process the way they photographed. For example I believe The Yellow Brick Road was actually painted orange so that it would come out yellow. There were Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 advisors. The higher the level advisor the more the studio had to pay Technicolor.
There were cheaper color systems such as Brewster Color and Multicolor (later renamed Cinecolor). Once Disney secured exclusive rights to Technicolor, Process 4 for animated shorts (if I remember correctly they had exclusive rights for 2 years, from 1932 to 1935) the other animation studios had to use alternatives. Warner Bros. used Technicolor, Process 3, off-and-on on their Merrie Melodies cartoons (but not Looney Tunes until they were able to switch to Process 4). Ub Iwerks used the Cinecolor process.
Eventually the studios got tired of having to pay Technicolor, so they developed their own systems in the 1950s. This included TruColor (owned by Republic Pictures - it was so bad even they rarely used it), Warnercolor (owned by Warner Bros.) and Metrocolor (owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). For many years afterwards 'Prints by Technicolor' could be seen in the closing credits. They simply processed the negatives, manufacturing the prints that were distributed to cinemas. The Technicolor Process was not used in these cases.
Happy 85th Anniversary to The Wizard of Oz!
These reactions are reminding that I should probably try to watch it again before the year wraps.
It's such a classic reveal. I'm really struggling to think of a way they could do something thematically similar nowadays since color is so ubiquitous.
Why do I get emotional when she says, “We must be over the rainbow”?
Yeah, it wasn't "the first" color movie. But they were very new and for many people it was their first color movie.
I can't imagine how impressive this would have been to be someone's first color movie... ;-)
Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm), a brilliant entertainer, went over the rainbow herself in 1969, at the age of 47.
The movie sets of Oz were intentioanlly made to be unrealistic, fantastic. Because the nature of the story. You have to read the books to fully understand the movie
Its hard to believe that this timeless masterpiece was a flop at the box office.
It was during the Great Depression. Most people simply didn't have any money for the movies.
@Boomer_Power But Gone With The Wind became the most successful film of all time??
"I hope she landed somewhere nice."
Yeah, about that...
The first color movie was Walt Disney’s “Snow White”, the first live action (not animated) color movie was “The Wizard of Oz” . As a side note, Walt Disney also had the first film to contain a sound track with “Steamboat Willie” featuring Mickey Mouse.
These are commonly quoted factoids, but they're not entirely accurate. Color films were released prior to both of these, but many of them have been lost to time thanks to poor film preservation. Even then, full-length color films from the early and mid-1930s are still widely available today.
The Wizard of Oz wasn't even the first live-action feature to use the Technicolor film development process. It's still a fantastic film, and its contrasting use of sepiatone and color is impressive even today, but it wasn't the first to do it, not by a long shot.
That transition from black and white to color was all done in camera. The whole room as well as the back of the stand in was painted sepia.
Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it.
Margaret Hamilton, the Wicked Witch, was burned horribly in this scene, a few minutes later.
Glenda thought Dorothy was mid, so she wasn’t sure if she was a good or bad witch.
Color film goes back a lot farther than this film, but the process was more difficult. This wasn't even the first film to use technicolor.
Dorothy: "I've never met a beautiful witch."
CinemaSins: "Well you still sorta haven't..."
❤ STILL HAVE THIS MOVIE ON VCR AND NOW DVD ❤
People forget that Judy Garland is playing a 10 year old girl and for my money, shes fantastic
What do you mean people "forget"? It's never stated how old Dorothy is.
@@theflyingfisherman7829 It is in the book.
@@Boomer_Power And? Just because a character is a certain age in a book doesn't mean that's their age in the film adaptation. Ages of literary characters get changed all the time in movies. Being 10 in the book doesn't mean Judy Garland is playing 10 in the movie. But also, the point still stands of _"how are people forgetting how old Dorothy is"._ If people didn't actually read the book, then they're not "forgetting" how old Dorothy is supposed to be in the movie. And I guarantee most people who've seen _The Wizard of Oz_ have not read the book, since most people don't read. So, they're not forgetting Dorothy's age. And lastly, no, it is NOT stated how old Dorothy is in the book. The film is based on the original book and the author never once stated how old Dorothy was in it. So, that' 100% incorrect. Dorothy's age isn't stated until the 11th book, and it says she's 11 in that book (not 10). People don't even fact-check anymore.
@@theflyingfisherman7829 I never said she was 10 in the book. I simply said that her age is given in the book. That's all I said. Turn down your hostility, go lie down and take a nap.
@@theflyingfisherman7829 I never said she was 10 in the book. I simply said her age is given in the book. Are you having a bad day? 🤨
This has been on tv every year since 1956. The only exception was 1993. Hard to believe the first timers
🌈 Two other technicolor movies that came out even a year before this one are "The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer" and "The Adventures Of Robin Hood." 😎👍
This was not the first technicolor movie.....the first full technicolor movie was in 1935 called "Becky Sharp"
This movie is beautiful, but it was a nightmare to make. Judy Garland often had to work up to 18 hours a day, some of the makeup for the Tin Man was toxic, and the Cowardly Lion costume was made with real lion fur and was extremely hot to wear.
Cyclone Rider--Left End
It was all a fever dream....or was it 😮
Good job. I just subscribed.
The film was remastered (recolored)in 2017 .Some of the original “colors” (in 1939)were created by actually hand painting right onto the film strips! Unfortunately,there were later many reports of abuse to Judy and to the “Munchkins” during the lengthy filming. Child actors were “property” . Still a great movie,but my wonderful childhood memories of it have been tainted by some of the “realities” of 1938/1939 film practices by the big studios;MGM in this instance. Sad.
I Love Wizard Of Oz ❤❤
😭❤️🥹 Classic movie
Dorothy 2 Wicked Witches 0.
Asia is hilarious lol, I love her so much
Dog under the bed 😂😂