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The Wizard of Oz (1939) | *First Time Watching* | Movie Reaction | Asia and BJ
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I remember when Wizard of Oz only came on TV once a year when I was a kid. That was a big event at our house back then.
Yes, we had a living room picnic with pizza to watch it every year.
It was a big event in everybody's house in the 1970s!
LOL!!! I just told my son the same thing the other day. How excited we were when it was close to Easter time because we knew we would get to see The Wizard of Oz. I was ten years old when I first saw it in color.
Easter....
Yep. Gen X memories. Going to Granny's to watch Wizard of Oz every year.
Don't think of it as an old movie, think of it as a timeless classic.
Very well said. 👏
Beyond timeless. It is a masterpiece which Earth can showcase amongst the galaxies. IMO.
Absolutely facts!
Yes, like a good book that remains popular for years after it's first published.
Dorothy: I miss Kansas.
Toto: I miss the rains down in Africa.
awesome comment 😂
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I see what you did there. Champion of comments.
😂 Good one. And two good bands.
Jedi mind trickin
That’s Judy garland…. She absolutely has that voice
I heard lots of people at MGM referred to Judy Garland as the young girl with the grown up voice.
Judy Garland was well known as one of the best voices in Hollywood and really anywhere, she was also the mother of Liza Minnelli, another fantastic voice in her time.
Had.
Someone should get them to watch Meet me in St. Louis for this Christmas season so she can see more of her. A truly amazing talent.
Mystic - Between Dorothy and her 3 amigos, they were watching some SERIOUS talent !!!
Bert Lahr the Lion, Jack Haley the Tin Man and Ray Bolger as Scarecrow.
And Dorothy was WAY BEYOND Gifted !!!
The transition from sepia to color when she walks through the doorway is one of the seminal scenes in film history.
I remember watching this movie in the theater when I was young. I’m 76 now. I still remember the change from black and white to color and the impression it made on me. Everything that was on television at the time was black and white and something shown in color was amazing.
It was done with a stand-in for Judy. Everything on this side of the door was the actual colors brown, black, and white. Then, the door opens to actual real-life color. Judy comes in on the side of the camera in her color dress and such. A practical FX back in the day.
Hey, keep it clean. This is a family site.
@@tomcole2041 ???
And back to sepia when she wakes up.
Seeing the smile on Asia's face and how happy she is after watching this movie is pure sunshine.
Don’t sleep on classic movies.
There are many treasures to view.
Agreed!!! ❤❤❤
Absolutely true that. Absolutely true.
They should watch some Busby Berkeley dance numbers. Google it then hit Images
I love how Asia went into the movie like "Eww, old movie from 1939. How could this be any good?" and then instantly was mesmerized in childlike wonder through the whole thing. This movie just be doin' that to people lol!
That's why these two are such a joy to watch them discover classics for the first time.
@@Vinterfrid I truly wonder how someone ends up as miserable as you
@@Vinterfrid Everyone is ignorant to unfamiliar things, but these two are exposing themselves to these films and seeing the greatness behind them. That's the only way around it.
It is a magical movie. Don't know why but it is.
1939 was a great year for movies!
That face from BJ when Asia finally realizes that those were her friends is priceless.
...but, she still didn't seem to realize the nasty lady on the bicycle in the beginning, was the Wicked Witch lol.
This was the first movie to use techni-color. So think about people's reactions in theaters seeing that burst of color when she opens the house door the first time. Would have been like magic.
I heard this movie wasn't a huge sensation when it first came out.
That's a myth. It was not the first technicolor movie
Not the very first, but definitely one of the first with a major impact.
Disney was kinda the first with Flowers & Trees, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Not the actual first, but one of the first few. Various types of color processing had been tried in the days of silent films. But “Becky Sharp” in 1935 is usually credited as the first feature length Technicolor. “The Adventures of Robin Hood” -1938 (starring Errol Flynn) and Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” - 1937 were early masterpieces in color.
To BJ’s comment about the movie being the most memorable childhood movie: my aunt is in her 70s and has advanced dementia. She doesn’t know any of our names or what day it is or what we were talking about 3 minutes ago. We took her to see my son perform in the Wizard of Oz play and as the show progressed she was singing along to all the songs. I found that to be amazing bc it was a core memory that she was able to tap into and bring out her inner child. ❤
Wow...that's actually really beautiful. Could that be your aunt's happy place? Thank you for sharing. ❤
This touches my heart, almost to the point of tears.
They say memories of music are some of the strongest we have, and that is why they use music therapy for all types of mental illnesses. May U have your aunt for years to come
Very common for long terms memory to be intact.
That’s so beautiful
This is literally my grandma era 1939. Born 1919. Still living. Now. Thankgod. For it. Wizard of the Oz. , Judy garland ...TOTOOOO
Judy was 16 while filming Wizard of Oz, but was already a well-known child singer who amazed audiences with her strong voice. Somewhere Over the Rainbow became her signature song and she performed it all throughout her life. 🌈
Leanne Rimes was another vocal prodigy at a very young age, where she sounded like a mature woman but was still deep into her teens.
Agreed, and it won the Academy Award for best song. Shirley Temple and Deanna Durbin, who was trained as an operatic soprano, were also considered, before the filmmakers settled on Garland.
@@ghomerhust Judy was also an actor who also could dance and went on to do both serious dramatic and comedy roles, receiving two Oscar nominations and hosted an Emmy award winning tv series, had Grammy Awards and received the first DeMille Award for lifetime achievement. She is considered an icon of Hollywood and has been honored on US postage stamps. She was barely 5 ft tall but her voice has been acclaimed by everyone from opera singers to Elvis Presley.
One of the greatest natural American singing voices of all time....girl please check out Judy garland....then came barbara streisand and karen carpenter and cass elliot.
And the producers had her smoking 3-4 packs a day to keep her skinny, and on a steady diet of benzos too.
Back in the days before the internet, cable and VCRs, this movie was on once a year on CBS, and everybody watched it. It was almost like a national holiday.
right...and the Ten Commandments
Wait, didn't it come on TV during a holiday once a year, like around Thanksgiving? I mean, Easter had THE 10 COMMANDMENTS on TV every year, still does.
The Sound of Music too
@@logik200And Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory, as well as West Side Story
Don't Forget 'It's a Wonderful Life' and later 'A Christmas Story' during the Christmas holidays. 'Mary Poppins' used to come on a lot too, along with the early Disney Classics (Alice in Wonderland, Bambi, Cinderella, Dumbo, Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
Bert Lahr, a vaudeville performer who crossed over to movies, played the Lion, and stole every scene he was in. He was damned hilarious.
Right it warms my heart that they laughed at his shtick 😂
@@AmyAyresWrites all three were old vaudeville performers.
You have to understand, for people my age, it’s almost inconceivable that someone didn’t grow up watching this movie every year. It was broadcast every year for something like 35 years, and it was an *EVENT* . I think this is considered the most-watched movie ever made, and it’s indelibly impressed on the pop culture of our generation. “I think we’re not in Kansas anymore.” “And your little dog, too!” “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!” And many, many more.
4:18 Pigs can certainly be mean. “Eat,” I don’t know about, but “bite,” definitely.
6:11 One year, in the late 80s or early 90s, CBS wanted to get a new angle on advertising the annual televising of this movie, so they started showing an ad that ran something like: “Sunday night on CBS, it’s Totally Toto! He’s an escape artist [showing him escaping from the basket], action hero [jumping from the drawbridge], and a fine judge of character [in Dorothy’s arms, barking at the witch]! Toto is…Toto! In “The Wizard of Oz,” Sunday at 8pm!”
7:29 The tornado was one of several really amazing special effects that they pulled off for this movie.
9:22 But you cut out the greatest. The scene where she opens the door is a masterpiece of low-tech special effects. They filmed it in color, but the inside of the house in that set was done in sepia tones, as was a whole copy of Dorothy’s costume. They had a body double done in makeup that looked like sepia tones, and had her open the door and step aside, then Judy Garland walks out in full color.
9:40 This wasn’t quite the first color or Technicolor film, but color was still very new.
Yes. They really are the Only reactors to Not have The Doorway To Oz scene. They also didn't have the whole Throw Water On The Witch scene, but it's the missing Doorway scene that's such a surprise. haha
Pigs won't just bite, they will eat the whole human body, including bones.
Pigs also have a heart that is nearly identical to humans.
@@bobbierobinson6269 Yeah, I remember being so shocked I was almost sick when reading The Grapes of Wrath, I came across something like, Mrs. Joad never left their front gate open since the neighbor's pig ate their baby. 😱
I believe it was on every Thanksgiving weekend Saturday Night
I hear that. I'm 60 and been watching this movie ever since I can remember. Lol
Every year. 😅
That girl DEFINITELY had that voice.
They used to show this once a year, every year from the 50s through the early 1970s. That's why if your over 50, you have seen this movie at least ten times. As a young kid of 7 or 8 back in the mid 60s, this scared the crap out me. The next day at school, everyone said they had nightmares of the wicked witch, and those Flying monkey Devil things. Judy Garland was only 15 years old, and went on to become one of the biggest stars in Hollwood history. She is iconic. Sing, Dance, and act. One of the very best actors ever, male or female.
Thanks folks
Maybe Australia was just behind (we didn't have Pay TV until the mid 90s so it was still just a few broadcast networks until then) but it was still being shown annually here through the 80s.
The Wizard of Oz is more than just a movie. It's a core part of American culture. It's been on TV every year for decades, so millions of people across generations have seen it. It's full of memorable and quotable lines, like "I have a feeling we're not in Kansas any more", "Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!", "I'll get you my pretty, and your little dog too!", and "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain". There are references to it in movies, TV shows, comics, and other media. One pair of the ruby slippers is in the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
The movie was based on a series of 17 books by L. Frank Baum, written between 1900 and 1920. It was turned into a stage play long before it was a movie. There were also silent movie versions made in 1910 and 1925.
Margaret Hamilton, who played Miss Gulch and the Wicked Witch of the West, was a kind woman who loved children. It bothered her that children were afraid of her after this movie came out. She once went on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood and changed from her normal clothes into a witch costume while explaining to kids that it was all make believe.
They originally wanted to cast Shirley Temple as Dorothy. It would have been an entirely different movie. Temple was typecast as a cute little kid. Also, Garland was a much better singer than Temple.
They originally cast Buddy Ebsen as The Tin Man, but he had to quit because he had an allergic reaction to the silver makeup, so they got Jack Haley instead. Ebsen is best known today as Jed Clampett of The Beverly Hillbillies.
Margaret Hamilton was badly burned in one of the stunts in this movie, and she refused to do any more stunts like it for the rest of the filming.
The "snow" in the poppy field was made from asbestos.
Toto got $125 a week. The Munchkins each only got $50 a week.
The tornado was a large piece of twisted muslin cloth.
The horses in Emerald City were colored with Jell-O mix. They had to shoot the scenes quickly before the horses licked it off.
The tornado was a big piece of twisted cloth. It's amazing what they could accomplish with practical effects long before CGI was invented.
Color movies were not common in 1939, so it was a real surprise to the audience when Dorothy landed in Oz. They did the transition from black-and-white to color by painting the inside of Dorothy's house in shades of grey, and putting Dorothy in a grey dress. They shot the scene in color, so when Dorothy opened the door it revealed the color set. They used a stand-in to play Dorothy for this one shot, so that Judy Garland wouldn't have to change her costume.
Color movies go back even into the silent era. The first version of Technicolor was invented in 1916. By 1939 the technology had gotten quite good. But color was expensive and complicated, so most movies were made in black and white for a long time. It wasn't until the sixties that most movies were in color.
The song Over the Rainbow was almost cut from the movie. It's a slow number, and they thought the movie was too long. Fortunately, they left it in. Otherwise it would have been lost to history. In 2004 the American Film Institute ranked it #1 in their list of 100 Greatest Songs in American Films. It was also named The Song of the Century by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Yip Harburg wrote the lyrics to all the songs, and Harold Arlen wrote the music. Both wrote a large number of other songs, and wrote some together apart from Wizard of Oz, including It's Only a Paper Moon. They'd have worked more together, except that Harburg drove Arlen crazy with his political opinions. Harburg was a socialist. It's not that Arlen disagreed with Harburg, but that Harburg wouldn't shut up about it.
Harburg also wrote:
April in Paris
Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
Arlen is considered one of the all-time great American songwriters - some of his best are
Accentuate the Positive
Come Rain or Come Shine
Get Happy
I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)
Stormy Weather
That Old Black Magic.
Thanks!
Thanks.
I had a couple of the books as a kid. The china girl and the queen of the field mice i love to imagine in this movie.
When Baum wrote the original story, there was a crisis in American farming. The farmers believed that the banks and wealthy corporation, represented by Ms. Gulch/the wicked witch of the west. The essential lesson was that the common people should not be afraid, that when they United and worked together, they could achieve greatly. When I showed this film to students in China, they got it right away. Old movies in China, from period of WWII and the Civil War taught many of the same ideas.
Did you notice that Prof. Marvel, the door man in the Emerald City, the horse and buggy driver, the Wizard's guard, and the Wizard of Oz himself were all the same man?
His name is Frank Morgan. Unbelievable actor.
If you didn't see this classic as a kid,, You really missed out,, "The Ghost And Mr. Chicken" (1966) A MUST SEE!!
ABSOLUTELY!!!
If you watch the film again, you'll notice that Dorothy's friends in Kansas give little hints to which character they are in Oz. They'll mention having a heart, courage, a brain. I love how they included little details like that.
"Your head ain't made of straw, you know." "Zeke's just as scared as I am." "Some day they'll be making a statue of me in this town."
@@JohnRandomness105And the witch’s comments about Toto too!
@@vbvermont Yes, absolutely.
Sometimes you can only save yourself by saving someone else.
Dorothy’s selflessness changed her journey from “getting home” to “getting her new friends what they needed to survive”. And her friends were only driven by the desire to get Dorothy home.
At the end, there's no place like home,but what about Ms Gulch?(the wicked witch), still had the order to take Toto to destroy him, but the movie doesn't mention the tornado killed Ms. Gulch.
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My daughter, who was born in 1996, was OBSESSED with this movie. She had the whole Dorothy outfit, ruby slippers and all. You had to call her " Dorothy Gail from Kansas ". Had a basket with a stuffed Toto. And a hot air ballon like the one in Oz hanging from her ceiling she kept all the characters in.... Return to Oz is a good one too.
Return to Oz is one of the only films to ever scare me lol and I grew up watching horror movies 😂
Her name was Elmira Gulch played by the wonderful Margaret Hamilton, whose portrayal set the bar for wicked witches from this film on. Judy Garland said it was so hard to act scared of her because she was such a sweetheart and they had so much fun while filming. She became a very close friend to Garland and tried to protect her from a lot of the studio hell she was being put through.
I loved when she went on Mister Rogers to show kids that it was just make believe and she wasn't scary in real life.
@@captainsplifford She was a teacher herself when she was younger.
That's true, and fun fact, Margaret Hamilton was a contract player at MGM. She had been a schoolteacher before becoming an actress and, for years, she would have to explain to young children that she was only playing a part. In reality, she loved children.
@@cvonbarron She did adore children and was the mother of a 4-year-old little boy when she was filming “The Wizard of Oz”.
She really did, I don’t think I can think of which prior to this. She just kinda perfected it and it’s like every witch is modeled after her. The nose, the hat, the cackle
This movie was made 85 years ago, let that sink it! I remember being a kid and waiting ALL year for it to air on tv.
Yes it was on once a year almost all of us probably watched it too. Funny I haven’t seen it now in many years 😢
It made the movie all the more special. A little like how it took ET 6 years to come out on VHS or how Disney movies would only play in theaters 10 or so years apart,it sounds like I’m describing an alien planet compared to today
Yes, every year on Thanksgiving for me
@@corimyers4985 Same with my family. I'm 35 and I still look forward to watching it after Thanksgiving dinner!
Asia and BJ, when I was a kid I remember there was only ONE person in the neighborhood that had a color tv. All of the kids gathered at their house one day to watch The Wizard of Oz. When they opened that door, and it showed the color for the first time ever, everyone went wild with delight. It was something I'll never forget, and that movie became a tradition to watch every year around Thanksgiving. It was something to behold. :)
My mom saw this in theaters when it came out in '39. She was 15 and her name was Dorothy too. She said when it went from black and white to color, the audience gasped. I think it was the first movie to do that. It was amazing and we watched it every year once it came on TV. One of my all time favorites.
It probably was the first as at the time, this was technically VERY difficult*. The shot from behind Dorothy as she opens the door was filmed in color, but the inside of the house was painted in sepia colors. Judy Garland's double was also dressed in browns. She pulls the door back and gets out of range of the camera, then Judy steps forward and through the door.
*By comparison to today.
@@johnnehrich9601 Yes, Bobby Koshay, was Garland's stand in, it wasa very ingenious transition.
Technicolor came out several years before The Wizard of Oz. Before that there was 2 strip Technicolor which was very pale and not very bright. There are so many wonderful movies made before The Wizard of Oz. By 1939, they had been making movies for almost 40 years.
My mother did as well; she was 12 years old.
I had black and white TV until 1970 before I found out.
This is the original. They had color in 1939.
When you watch it again, you'll notice that each of Dorothy's 3 friends in Oz exhibited the traits they so desired throughout the film. It really was already in them.
1910 is the original
@@0ne0nlyLarryThis was the original one that was televised.
@@0ne0nlyLarry Really??? So tell me, when was the original air date.
Gone With the Wind was released in 1939, also in color.
@@geneticrexit was a movie released in theaters. There were no “air dates” in 1910 as there were no TVs.
If you've seen 1971's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and now 1939's The Wizard of Oz, it only stands to reason that 1968's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang starring Dick Van Dyke should follow. Who agrees they should react to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? (Musical theater & a fantasy themed, family movie from a generation gone by.)
Absolutely! If I remember correctly, that movie was also shown around or perhaps even on Thanksgiving.
@@bostonwhofan Maybe around the time of the Grand Prix, Chitty had been a racing car in her prior role.
yes!!!
85 years after this movie first was introduced to viewers, The "Wizard of Oz" continues to light up the faces of first time viewers and those of who have viewed it before over and over again. Some stories are timeless and reminds us that, "There is no place like home".
Judy Garland was a lady to be reckoned with. Her daughter is the great Liza Manelli. Both are phenomenal actors and more importantly, singers.
In the book, the Witches of the North and South were good, and the Witches of the East and West were wicked. Also, the Good Witch of the South was named Glenda, and the Good Witch of the North did not have a name. Also, in the book, each of the four characters first meet the Wizard separately, and he has a different form for each of them, like for Dorothy he appears as a giant head, and for the Cowardly Lion he appears as a beautiful woman. I don't remember how he appeared to the Scarecrow and the Tin Man.
The "snow" that falls on the four of them to wake them up from the poppies was actually asbestos, which was unknown at the time to cause cancer.
My grandfather was born in 1925. He said he had a crush on Judy Garland, and that Wizard of Oz was the first movie he ever saw in color in 1939. He died in 1989 when i was 10. He was favorite person in the world, and i often wish i could talk with him as an adult. I miss you grampa.
My grandfather saw this in the theatre, when he was a teenager, and he said the entire crowd gasped when it switched to color. The composition of the film, the story, the set design, the music, the costumes... it was mind-blowing.
That movie was to his generation like 2001 and Star Wars were to later generations.
A fun fact: The Powers-That-Be (and, maybe, Wanna-Be, too) at MGM originally wanted Somewhere Over the Rainbow deleted from the movie. They thought it slowed down the movie's pace. Thank God they came to their senses and kept that song in. It would become Judy Garland's signature song. I watched a biography of her and found out that every time she sang that song in concert, there was never a dry eye in the house...and rightly so!
Lyricist Yip Harburg and composer Harold Arlen threatened to quit if Over the Rainbow was cut. A lot of the movie's success is due to their work. I think Harburg even cleaned up the dialog where the wizard gives gifts out of his bag.
A "Command Performance"" by Judy Garland a few years after the movie is on RUclips and her voice is even more powerful.
I love how the scarecrow and lion and tin man all proved themselves wrong by saving Dorothy because they show that they did have brains, courage, and heart
Yep, it's an intentional irony on the part of the story, and it works so much.
The Scarecrow's ability to solve problems was the most obvious part.
Yes, it’s great.
The tin man kept crying and rusting up, and the scarecrow had all the ideas.
When I was a kid, they played this once a year on network TV.
Yep. We had a small b&w tv, and were still thrilled when Dorothy opens up the door onto Oz...
I remember that too.
Yes, and before VCRs you had to schedule it to see. It was a special event.
I grew up in the 80s and they still did that. Eventually it stopped when VCRs took over.
Yep, ditto. I think around Easter every year, right?
I heard somewhere that when MGM made this movie, they were showing off all the special effects that they could do. They way they changed from sepia (brown) to color was this: They built a room entirely in brown, and had a body-double in a brown dress. They filmed that scene using color film and the girl in brown from back, opened the door to the Land of Oz that was in color, and then Judy Garland, wearing the blue dress stepped in to the picture.
Judy Garland (Had) that voice.
That's her singing.
A lot of people thought this was the very first color movie....it wasn't.
I believe gone with the wind came out the same year as this
Correct. And I have a friend who was assured it was not even color, but changed to that later for TV. A college professor corrected him on that, since he would not believe me.
it IS a very very early color film, using Technicolor, which became the standard for color films for many years.
@decadentdevil yes same director victor Fleming
Gone with the wind, released the same year, also directed by Victor Fleming, was also in color, but, it was in color for the whole film.
Auntie Em wasn't there. The 3 farm hands were the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion. The witch was Miss Gulch. With respect, Judy Garland is one of the most renowned vocalist in History.
My parents made sure we watched it as a family. As a father, I made sure we watched it as a family. Looking at y'all watch it for the first time gives me the same joy I felt as my children watched it. It binds us together. It's part of our culture.
The most fascinating part of watching this film (to me) is that quite a few of these actors were born in the 1800s. Uncle Henry's actor, Charley Grapewin was born in 1869, just 4 years after Abraham Lincoln's death. Caren Marsh Doll, Judy Garland's stand-in, is actually still alive today (aged 105)! So she at one point stood next to a man on set who was born only 4 years after Lincoln's death. It's amazing to me there are people alive today that have actual memories of meeting people like that. And realizing it wasn't THAT long ago....
My grandfather was born in 1869 and I remember talking to him when he was 92. I was just 4. It still blows me away thinking about it.
Here's a little head canon for you: At the end of the movie, Uncle Henry says to Prof. Marvel: "Yeah, she got quite a bump on the head.. We kind of thought there for a minute she was gonna leave us." So, in Kansas, Dorothy is, maybe, almost dying. Her journey through Oz is her coming back to consciousness. Meanwhile, in Oz itself, it isn't enough for Dorothy to simply want to go home: She has to find out what her place at home is, and she finds it. She discovers that she:
Can take care of the people around her.
Can stand up to authority figures who insult and try to domineer.
Defend the smaller creatures, like Toto when the Lion first goes after him; and the Lion against the Wizard.
Be the center of a group of people who discover themselves while with her.
This is very different from the Dorothy who has no defense against Miss Gulch, has no way to express herself articulately, and who doesn't have a real place for herself at the farm. Her time in Oz teaches her all of this; and it isn't until it's in her own mind, heart and spirit that the shoes will work for her.
Perfectly said.
@@ammaleslie509 Many thanks!
Well said! I’d add that her line when they ask her what’s she’s learned, and she says that the next time she goes looking for her heart’s desire, she won’t look farther than her own backyard, because if it’s not there, then she never really lost it in the first place - to me that signifies that she learned that her happiness has to come from within, from how she relates to the people close to her. She couldn’t just click her heels and get transported back home until she figured out that, just like her new friends who had to prove to themselves that they already had their brains, heart, and courage, she already had the ability to make her own happiness wherever she might be. She didn’t have to - and couldn’t - go hunting for it or rely on other people to deliver it to her.
Edit: It just occurred to me that what the Wizard gave Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion was social proof of their abilities. They had spent their whole lives being told they were lacking. Scarecrow was made without a brain. Tin Man didn’t have heart installed by the tinsmith. The Lion didn’t match the stereotype of the courageous lion. Even when they were constantly demonstrating those traits through the whole adventure, they still didn’t believe in themselves until the Wizard gave them recognition for their accomplishments. In a way, I think the Oz adventure gave Dorothy the social proof of her ability to take charge of her own life. She was always treated like a little kid who could do nothing for herself and was always just one of the many bothers the adults had to handle. But in Oz, she proved all the things you listed, and the people of Oz, from the Munchkins to the people of Emerald City and the witch Glinda, all acknowledged her abilities. She’ll probably be a much more mature girl back in Kansas after this experience. Heck, she even ended up getting herself home, since the Wizard flubbed the balloon flight..
@@jenfries6417 That is all so lovely and wonderfully expressed! Thank you!
That moment when Asia realizes who the farm helpers where the Scarecrow, Tin-man, and Lion at 39:44… Priceless!!!
When she was a child, everyone commented on her being a kid with the voice of a grown woman. Early nick name was Miss Leather Lungs. The movie stars at MGM used to stand outside the studio where she was rehearsing and just listen. People have been listening to her ever since. Frank Sinatra said it best, he said, "we will all be forgotten, but never Judy"
Another classic you should watch is The Sound of Music
YES !!!! 👍😀💖
FOR SURE!!! The kids are so much fun, the captain is so handsome, and Maria is so cool with the most beautiful voice!
Another ABSOLUTE MUST SEE CLASSIC from childhood,, "The Incredible Mr. Limpet" (1964) Starring Iconic comedic actor Don Knotts
..R.I.P. 🙏❤️
She was living with her Auntie ‘Em so it seems she lost her parents and felt she had no home. Then on her journey she found out that family is what you make it. The farm hands and her Aunt and Uncle were her family and she had a home. She didn’t need to dream about things over the rainbow because she lived on one side of the rainbow and it was where her heart was.
That's Judy garland, and yes.. that's her voice
46:51 Here's your explanation Asia: The beginning and ending of the movie was filmed entirely in sepia colors. When Dorothy came out of the house into color, the inside of the house was made to look black and white with a Dorothy double, who was dressed and painted in black and white colors to match. So when the double opens the door, Judy Garland then walks out to give that illusion of her walking out from sepia into color. 😊
Isn't it sepia? Still, that moment Dorothy opens the door in Munchkinland ... magic!
Fun Fact: Judy’s (Dorothy) daughter, Liza Minnelli, was married to Jack Haley’s (Tin Man) son, Jack Haley Jr., for five years, 1974-79.
In Hollywood, that's like a Golden Wedding Anniversary.
That’s so cool!
Before she passed, my Mom and I used to watch this every single November on TV, cause it was always on around Thanksgiving on TBS. Rest in peace, Mom. You're over the rainbow.
The 3 farmhands were her 3 companions for the trip - the scarecrow, tin man, and cowardly lion. The witch was the b*tch that took Toto away at the beginning of the movie. The wizard was the fortuneteller when she ran away from home.
That girl absolutely had that voice. Judy Garland was an incredible singer.
They should watch “Meet Me In St. Louis.” ❤
When she sang, God spoke.
One of the best ever for sure!
38:44 BJ got it. She needed to appreciate her home life. And the three farm hands were her best friends, but she hadn't realized it.
Margaret Hamilton said the scene where she threatened to have Toto destroyed was the hardest for her to shoot because she was such an animal lover in real life.
Most of the actors who played the Munchkins were from Germany and spoke little English. A lot of them were also Jewish and accepted the chance to appear in this movie because it allowed
them to escape Nazi Germany. The voices of many of them were dubbed since they didn't speak any English.
“When a man’s an empty kettle, he should be on his mettle, and yet I’m torn apart. I’d be friends with the sparrows and the boy who shoots the arrows if I only had a heart.”-🖤
"I would not be such a nothin... my head all full of stuffin, my heart all full of pain. I would dance and be merry, life would be a ding-a-derry...If I only had a brain!"-🧠
Yeah, it's sad believe me Missy, when you're born to be a sissy, without the vim and verve
But I could show my prowess, be a lion not a mowess, if I only had the nerve
I'm afraid theres no denying, I'm just a dandy lion, a fate I don't deserve
Then I'm sure to get a brain, a heart , a home, the nerve!
@@Embur12 *the noive! 😊
The lyrics to the songs are so incredibly clever.
I am 67 and every year when this would come on our black and white TV I never knew that the horse of a different color was different colors until I saw it on the first color tv my uncle had. 😅
Same! I'll be 66 this year.
Same and I'm 63. I didn't realize until we got our first color tv console.
I was lucky. My next door neighbor had a color TV. The first colored movie I saw was Flower Drum Song.😊
By the time we got a color television I no longer watched the annual TV showing, so I was an adult before I saw it in color. I was amazed!
Funny thing is, I've seen this movie hundreds of times, and I never noticed it until today.
The song Over The Rainbow is one of the most iconic numbers in a musical and my personal favorite in this movie.
Delicious movie trivia:
>The "oil" that they used to lube up Tin Man's joints was actually watered-down chocolate syrup.
>The horse pulling the carriage in The Emerald City kept licking off the gelatin powder that turned its coat purple, red and yellow.
Sweet movie trivia:
>Jack Haley, the actor who played the Tin Man was the replacement for Buddy Ebsen, who suffered an allergic reaction to the makeup. The voice Jack used for Tin Man was reportedly one he'd use when reading good night stories to his daughter, his real voice was gruffer and deeper.
Sad movie trivia:
>In the scene where Dorothy, Scarecrow and Tin Man meet The Cowardly Lion, you can see Judy bury half of her face in Toto's fur. This is because she found it difficult to keep a straight face when Bert Lahr started blubbering as the Lion, and the producers would get mad and slap her because of it.
>In the poppy field scene when Glinda makes it snow to negate the Wicked Witch's sleeping spell, the "snow" is actually asbestos flakes.
>The pyrotechnics used for the Wicked Witch of the West's entries and exits inflicted 2nd degree burns on her face and 3rd degree burns on her hand. She understandably refused to not only do any more stunts involving pyrotechnics, but she missed 6 weeks of filming due to hospitalization.
“That girl does not have that voice” and it’s literally Judy Garland. 😂😂😂😂 Wizard of Oz is such a marvel and classic because it revolutionized the use of color in film. It was a HUGE production for its time. All the movies that remind you of this film came after it and was influenced by it. A wonderful piece of cinematic history. One of my favorites!!
Asia you have to remember that in 1939 the only way people were seeing the movie was in the theater so the audience got to experience the B&W to color transition on the movie screen. When it did air on TV, in 1956, it would have depended on whether or not you could afford a pricey (for the time) color TV to experience the transition or not.
It's hard to believe that due to an amazing combination of makeup and genetics, you wood never guess that Billie Burke (Glinda, the Good Witch) is 18 years OLDER than Margaret Hamilton (The Wicked Witch).
They are classmates in Wicked.
Asia's light bulb clicked on when she realized who was all there, and lit up her face like the sunshine! 😁 As a tiny kid watching this in the 70's, the only part I remembered the most (and loved the most) was when the wicked witch launched the swarm of flying monkeys! For the longest time I kept jumping off the sofa waving my arms like a crazy monkey! Lol 😆
I am an old man and for my generation the thought of not wanting to watch a classic movie because it was made too long ago...it's kind of sad. Welcome to humanity, Ms. Asia!
I hear ya! I can’t wrap my brain around many of the younger generations that assume that if a movie was made long ago, it’s automatically not good!!
Yeah, it's weird. I'm 46 and just watched Spartacus with Kirk Douglas tonight. I'll watch a movie from any year as long as it's good.
Agreed. I can't imagine discarding something as fantastic as Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Capra, Twighlight Zone, I Love Lucy, or any of the amazing movies of our days. Anything with Judy Garland was amazing. Gone with the Wind, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Sargent York, Abbott and Costello, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope on the road movies, or the Marx Brothers. Spartacus was amazing. I remember going to see a re-release of Spartacus at a beautiful theater in Century City, CA. Fantastic movie. I remember watching the "Afternoon Movie" with my mother. Back then it was all we had on Television, and we valued the old as much as new. It shaped my world, and I think I'm better for it.
Right? Thats like not looking at paintiings or listening to music after a few years. And architecturr? Forget it, its hundreds and thousands of years old! 🤣 irrelevant!
Can you just imagine being a child in 1939, and every movie you have ever seen is in black and white, and then you go see this. How magical it must have been to see all that color and sparkle when Dorothy walks through that door.
Dorothy had to make the journey to learn the lesson that “There’s no place like home.”
Color film has been around since the silent film era. By 1939 it was being used more frequently but was extremely expensive so still reserved for prestige projects, both Gone with the Wind which was also made in 1939 and The Adventures of Robin Hood, made the previous year were in Technicolor.
As others have said, that was indeed Judy Garland singing. When she was touring in vaudeville with her sisters she was billed as “The Little Girl with the Big Voice.” The girls were a trio, initially The Gumm Sisters-Judy was born Frances Ethel Gumm-until they were accidentally billed as The Glum Sisters which the headliner, George Jessel, pointed out to them was no worse than their actual name. He suggested Garland as a replacement and “Judy” was the title of a popular song at the time.
Judy had been at MGM for a few years when she was cast and was moving up through the ranks but this made her a top star (she was awarded a juvenile Oscar-they no longer hand them out-for the film) and for the entirety of the forties she was the premier female musical star at MGM, which since it was at the time the top studio in Hollywood made her the Queen of the genre. Sadly, it was not a smooth road. She had many, many problems, mostly caused by the studio’s administration of pills to keep her weight down and for her to work truly insane amounts of hours which led to severe emotional issues and multiple breakdowns which plagued her for the rest of her short life. But after each breakdown she would rise again with a series of amazing comebacks until she ran out of time, she died at only forty-seven.
Her work would be something worth exploring on your music channel. There are many great numbers from her time at MGM- “I’m Always Chasing Rainbows,” “The Trolley Song”, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” among them. After her firing from MGM in 1950 she made her first major return in the first musical version of “A Star is Born” which netted her a Best Actress Oscar nomination and provided her with another signature song-the great “The Man That Got Away”.
In the early 60’s she had her own musical program, unsurprisingly called “The Judy Garland Show” and even though it was short-lived she gave many fantastic performances on it which can be found on RUclips. Perhaps the most striking is her rendition of “Old Man River” but there are many other memorable numbers- “By Myself,” “Battle Hymn of the Republic, “As Long as He Needs Me” and many others.
The four great classics that I remembered aired once a year were: “The Wizard of Oz”, “The Ten Commandments “, “Gone With the Wind”, and “The Sound of Music”.
Dont forget the 10 commandments, That was a TV event
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And of course, the Christmas classics like "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town", "Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer", and "Frosty The Snowman". I think it's great they are still played once a year on national TV even to this very day......even though they are all available on tape or streaming now.
Most people forget Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at Thanksgiving. After All the Thanksgiving festivities, all us kids would gather around the TV and watch it while the adults would have their nightcap.
Also live stage performance of Peter Pan.
I am 70 years old and when I was a small child this used to come on tv once a year. I can still remember how my mom and older sister and me would gather around with a large bowl of popcorn and watch this every year. This has always been my favorite movie. I still watch it today.I b absolutely enjoyed your reaction and commentary during the movie. Thank you for the memories.❤❤❤
this came out the year Poland was attacked by the Nazis. just to put the time into perspective.
"dont pigs eat people?" not live, but you can throw meat scraps into pig slop and they will eat it, bones and all. it's rumored that Mob and Mafia people disposed of bodies on pig farms by feeding body parts to the pigs
"that girl does NOT have that voice." she absolutely did. judy garland was known for having an INCREDIBLE singing voice, as well as being fantastic on screen. she's also not very young in this film, well into her teens.
"i thought this movie was in black and white?" this was one of the very first films to use "Technicolor," a 3 color film that later set the basis for all color film prior to using digital cameras. the switch from black and white to bright color was a shock to many audiences which is part of what cemented it as one of the greatest films in history.
"color picture until the 1950s" you are fairly accurate with this. Tube televisions didn't make it into homes, and only wealthier homes at the time in the 50s, were all black and white. the first LIVE BROADCAST color wasnt until the late 60s or early 70s. but in THEATERS, since it was just film shooting through a projector, the FILM could be in color. that started in the mid to late 1930s at first.
Color tv started in late 50's early 60's.... Disney's Wonderful World of Color, Bonanza and News was in Color.....
You must the GOAT at Trivial Pursuit!🤓
Pigs will eat you alive if they get the chance.
There is so much wisdom in this movie. One of my favorite parts is where they see the sign, “I’d turn back if I were you”. They read it and the Lion shakes his head and starts to turn back. Cracks me up every time. Sometimes we have to overcome our fears by moving forward, but sometimes those fears are there to warn us of danger and turning back is the right way to go.🦁
YOU JUST reminded me! It's been ages....yes, it starts in black and white, which was USUAL for the time it came out, we didn't get a color TV until years after our neighbors had one. This was the first movie to use BOTH...it starts in black and white....and goes to FULL COLOR once she arrives in OZ. And... those are..opium poppies. Not roses. Which is why they all "fell asleep" from smelling them. That detail of the lion using it's tail to wipe his tears. Killed me as a kid, I loved it. The "horse of a different color" got me, too, at the time I wasn't aware they could DO that. Yes, they already had what they were looking for; they found out on the journey. Thank you! I loved this movie and enjoyed you seeing it for the first time! It came on the TV ONCE a year and we made popcorn and watched it every year.
The Scarecrow had the idea to get apples by making the trees mad. He had lots of ideas. The Tin Man was always weeping because of a broken heart..and one really cool true fact...The prop department found Professor Marvel's old coat at a second-hand store...and when he put his hand in the pocket, he found the nametag of the old owner, L. Frank Baum, the author of the book.
Probably still the best practical tornado special effect in history and even to this day. Looks better and more realistic than any cgi tornado or even any tornado in the movie 'Twister'.
I can't imagine growing up without this iconic film as part of my life!😂😂
It's still amazing that it was created so long ago; it's one film that will be cherished by every generation!!
Over the rainbow song was setting up the plot. She as all kids dream of a better place other than your own house. She came to the understanding there’s no place like home.
Almost 100 years old and this movie is still a classic piece of art. ❤
You guys completely GOT the meaning of this movie. I love the way you guys loved it. It is one of the greatest movies ever made. They started the making of the movie in sepia tones, then color was invented coincidentally when they started shooting the Oz footage, then they decided to go back to sepia tones for the last scene, to visually differentiate between the real world and Oz. You guys completely GOT this movie. it's a masterpiece.
"The Wiz" was a Broadway adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz" featuring Black actors and singers. The movie version (1978) starred Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor, Lena Horne, and other legends of the stage and screen. Mixed reviews overall, but definitely iconic. It had some terrific music, as you would expect with that cast.
another Broadway adaptation is "Wicked" which will be made into a movie soon
There is also a movie called 'Return to Oz' (1985) which is based on the same book series that this movie is based.
I love the fact the fact that she points out that Auntie Em has no counterpart in Oz!
Neither does Uncle Henry…
Asia's version of logical storyline: Glenda: "Hey Dorothy. Welcome. Here's some shoes, click them and go home. *The End*". I love Asia and BJ.
Cinema is such an art. Filmmakers began experimenting with hand painted and other methods of coloring motion picture reels as early as 1902.
In the book, she clearly wasn't dreaming. It had actually happened to Dorothy. And there was a witch of the south! You don't meet her in the first book but she was a good witch too.
That’s Judy Garland. She had an amazing voice as a young girl. She was a teen during this movie around 16. Her daughter is Liza Minnelli who was also a well known singer, dancer and all around entertainer.
Judy learned to sing from being in a singing group with her sisters. I just learned that from a clip that popped up in my ‘Shorts’ last week. They were so cute ! Try Googling “Garland sisters” & Images to see those old photos.
Hey, guys. Technicolor was developed in the late 1930s. It was an expensive process so few films were shot in it (only a handful of prestige "A" pictures per year -- like the "Adventures of Robin Hood" from 1938 or "Snow White & the 7 Dwarfs" from 1937). BJ understood the story perfectly. Just like the Scarecrow, Tinman, Lion -- Dorothy had to gain the confidence to send herself home. She had to solve her own problems and not rely on wizards or witches. The Good Witch (like a good parent) let her learn this. Aunt Em & Uncle Henry had no Oz counterparts because then Dorothy would have no one to return to. The film's message keeps it fresh and vital 85 years after it was released.
Also, I'm 56 and I STILL have the occasional nightmare of the scene where Dorothy is looking in the crystal ball and see's Auntie Em and it turns into the witch cackling. It had a huge effect on me as a kid, but I'll go to my grave saying that the BEST childrens stories always have some scary parts. Making kids stories always be sterilized with nothing scary and everyone's nice just isn't the real world. Since time immemorial the BEST kids stories have scary parts because that's how you make the lessons stick for the kids. We're so scared of doing ANYTHING that might scar our kids in today's world that we take away from them these important life lessons that let them know that "YEAH, there are scary things out there and sometimes if you mess up you can die". These are IMPORTANT lessons to teach kids. I'd rather have my kids watch The Wizard of Oz or the original WIlly Wonka any day of the week over some modern cartoon where there's no real world life lessons mixed in with the entertainment. FWIW.
Generation X proudly talk about their emotional scarring from all the crazy "Kid's Movies" they watched growing up.
That crystal ball scene is so hard because Dorothy is TERRIFIED and the Witch baits her and MOCKS her, which is especially hurtful to a child. Its a feeling we can all relate to in some way and we carry it our whole lives.
I had the same experience but it was the scene after Dorothy is knocked out and you see Miss Gulch on her bike and then she turns in the cackling Wicked Witch. Scared the heck out of this little girl.
The Munchkins ran amok during filming. Because midgets were in demand for this movie , the Director couldn't fire them. They were smashed half the time. Marg Hamilton was severely burned and Buddy Ebsen ( the original Tin Man ) almost died from an allergic reaction from the silver paint covering his skin.
The little people had a lot of orgies as well. As I understand it.
When my mom was dying.....She wasn't conscious, and I was 33 years old and she was lying in the bed, and The Wizard of Oz came on, and I watched it "with her," for the final time.
My dad said that when he was a kid and he watched this, the lion was his favorite character. He also said that he was scared of the witch
I was scared of those flying monkeys!! So creepy!
I ws scared of the witch! When she looked directly at me out of that crystal ball and cackled maniacally, I ran and hid under my bed! I was 37 at the time... 🤣
@@llanitedave … 😂
We were all scared of the witch! Kids didn't see scary characters like that in movies then, and for years after.
As a small child, 'Over the Rainbow' honed my voice, for years prior to becoming a garage band singer. And I'm very thankful. We all know that music is more than the composition.
Wizard of Oz is such a cultural foundation for so many references… ruby slippers, “There’s no place like home” “I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore” yellow brick road, “and you’re little dog too”… and then you get things like The Wiz, Wicked… sounds like you got some more things to watch now.
Plus you get the song “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and the iconic Judy Garland.
The lady that played the Witch was one of the sweetest ladies ever......she actually felt bad that kids were afraid of her.
Love your reactions! As a trivia note, the opening of the film is actually not black and while, it is sepia toned (a brownish type tint) to give it a nostalgic look. That was achieved by subjecting the black and white film to an additional chemical dye process.
Technicolor, at that time, required huge cameras as each camera was loaded with 3 individual rolls of black and white film which ran simultaneously side by side, each through a lens covered by a specific colored filter in 3 colors. These 3 films were then processed individually and then passed through specifically colored dies. When all three films were laminated together, you got the full color result. This 3 strip process was developed in 1932. The process also required a LOT of light to properly expose the film, so the sets were incredibly hot from all the studio lights required. This made it torturous for the actors in full costume (especially Bert Lahr, who was wearing an actual lion skin) during filming.
The scene where Dorothy opens the door to a full color Oz, was filmed in Technicolor, but the inside of the house, everything in it, as well as Dorothy’s costume were painted or dyed sepia so that it seemed that she opened to color from sepia.
Side note. The wicked witch was on an episode of Sesame Street. The outcry from parents of traumatized kids was so great they never aired tgat episode again and its the only episode that was permanently banned from tv.
I think this is the pinnacle example of movies being made for escapism. Picture seeing this at the end of the Great Depression and for almost two hours you are treated to a fantastic adventure that distracts you from your outside troubles.
Bert Lahr (the lion), had a nervous habit in films, slowly twisting buttons on his suit until they'd pop off. Unable to do this in the lion suit, he'd work the end of his tail a lot.
Asia, with all due love and respect, Judy Garland is one of the most prolifically renouned singers of all time. Not only has she recieved multiple acclimations for being the first to sing the classic standard, "Over the Rainbow", as a child star and adult vocalist, she has voices dozens musical hits between the 1930s and 1960s. So yes Asia, that is her voice. By the way, I don't know if you knew, but this is the very first motion picture to be filmed in color. It's also the biggest box office hit of all time, if you judge by inflation.
Well, the biggest by inflation is still Gone with the Wind, same year 1939, and the first color was 1935.
@@RLucas3000 I stand corrected on highest grosing movie by inflation, but we're both wrong on first color movie. Thomas Eddison's, "The Great Train Robbery" filmed in 1907 was actually the first color movie.
NOW we get into the classics . Hope you enjoy. Asia watching this with Child Like Wonder. Fantastic. I was the same way.
When I was a kid growing up, it was broadcast on TV once a year at Easter time. We watched it and loved it each and every time (on our black and white TV.). I was an adult the first time I saw it in color -- Who knew it was SO cool the moment she exits the house into that World of color! Thanks for letting us experience through your eyes!
You do know that many of the movies made between 1930 -1970 are considered to be the greatest movies ever made....
The Wizard of Oz is one of them.... enjoy the fantastic ride 🍿🙂👍
One cool bit of trivia is about the coat that Professer Marvel wears. It was purchased at a used clothing store. After hey bought it, they found the name L Frank Baum in it. That was the name of the author of the book, His wife confirmed that it was his coat. He passed away before the movie came out. She was at the premier.