At the beginning of the movie, when Dorothy's aunt and uncle told her they were busy, they weren't "counting eggs." The incubator had failed and they were trying to save the baby chickens. Great film choice for a reaction.
I'm 54 years old, and as a child in the 1970s, my three favorite live action movies were The Wizard of Oz, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
I first saw this as a kid on a B&W tv. My mom, who had seen it in the theater as a little girl, tried real hard to explain to us how amazing that the movie switched to color when she got to Oz. We just ... had to use our imaginations.
My family only had a b&w 19” tv when I was a kid so I didn’t even get the sepia tone beginning & ending, much less the full color of Oz. But one Thanksgiving we were visiting my great aunt & uncle & they had a large color console tv & Wizard of Oz was playing. I don’t remember reacting to the color portion per se, but the segment when the witches green face replaced Auntie Em’s in the crystal ball scared me so much I hid behind my uncle’s reclining chair, lol. I remember vividly how much she terrified me to this day some 60 years later! 🫣
MGM came up with the idea of the real people reappearing in Oz. When Disney did Return to Oz (based on the following books and much closer to them), the Oz characters had their counterparts in Kansas, a reversal.
Fun fact the little pool in Munchkinland was supposed to have ducks in it, but the dye in water turned the ducks blue so the ducks were taken out. Its also surprising how well Burt Lahr was able to move since he was actually wearing an actal lion pelt that weighed over 100 pounds. I enjoyed the review!
Me and my Sister sitting in front of the black and white tv in the 60s every year it came on , that witch gave little boy me so many nightmares! Thanks for reacting to this happy memory nostalgic classic!
They did make a Wizard of Oz Park. You could walk through Oz and it included actual props and costumesfrom the movie. Unfortunately, and ironically, it was heavily damaged by a storm. Occasionally the land still opens up for special events.
Buddy Ebsen was originally cast as the tin man, but he had an allergic reaction to the makeup, so they had to replace him with Jack Haley. Ebsen is best known today as Jed Clampett from The Beverley Hillbillies. Margaret Hamilton, who played the witch and Miss Gulch, was a kind woman who loved children. It bothered her that children were afraid of her because of the movie. She went on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood to show how she became the witch with costume and makeup, so that children would understand it was only make-believe. When I was a kid I was more afraid of the flying monkeys than anything else. They really creeped me out. The "snow" in the poppy field was actually made from asbestos. Toto got $125 a week. The Munchkins each only got $50 a week.
I heard Buddy Ebsen (on the early years of "The Jerry Springer Show") explain that they used Aluminum Dust in the makeup and he ended up inhaling it, which damaged his lungs. He also said they made the mistake of using stove pipe for the costume, limiting his movement. He jokingly, or not so jokingly, said that when he did a hitch-kick he almost gave himself an ad lib sex change!!! Lol....He said that when he screamed, the director said, "Get him out of here. This part doesn't call for a soprano!!!" Lol
Nice review, so heartfelt! The amazing backstory of "The Wizard of Oz" movie. - When the wardrobe department got the script, they said Professor Marvel (and The Wizard) required a long coat for the part. Every coat on MGM's lot didn't seem acceptable for the actor Frank Morgan's part, so they sent several assistants out to the thrift stores in the Los Angeles area to search for long coats. After returning with many coats, Mr. Morgan went through them and chose one tattered, old wool coat. He looked at the label, and it was marked with the previous owner's name. L. Frank Baum. They saw the manufacturer's name, as it was made by hand at a fine clothing shop in England, and contacted the shop, which was still in business, to search their records to verify the owner's having placed an order for this coat in the late 1800's. It was true! How it made it's way to Los Angeles is a mystery. And an even larger mystery was how it was selected by the actor who played The Wizard of Oz, from hunddreds of pieces of clothing on the MGM studio lot. After filming concluded, the MGM studio presented the coat to L. Frank Baum's family as a souvenir of the film. You see, the author of the original children's book "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" from which this movie was based, was L. Frank Baum! - Buddy Ebsen (from The Beverly Hillbillies TV show) originally got the part of The Tin Man, but was allergic to the silver face paint, so he had to turn the part down. - The Ruby Slippers Dorothy wore are considered "The Holy Grail of Hollywood Collectibles" - "Today in 2001, Judy Garland's "Over The Rainbow" was voted Song Of The Century in a poll conducted by the Recording Industry Association of America, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Scholastic Inc. The song was written for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and became Garland's signature song."* * www.thecurrent.org/feature/2021/03/02/today-in-music-history-over-the-rainbow-was-song-of-the-century
Everyone has a special part of the movie to be scared of as kids. My mama is from Oklahoma, and she was terrified of the tornado. I was freaked out by the hourglass.
There WAS a park called The Land of Oz out in Beech Mountain, NC. It's been largely abandoned, but they do occasionally open it back up for tours along the Yellow Brick Road, which if you ask me, based on the pics, has more character to it the more weathered it looks.
2:45 They're not counting eggs, they're trying to save their live chicks because the incubator broke down and you have to get the chicks to someplace warm when that happens.
So yes. In the poppy fields, there was no snow. The Scarecrow and Tinman were able to carry Dorothy and Toto out, but couldn’t lift the heavy Lion. Then Tinman saved the queen of the mice from a bobcat by chopping it with his axe, and in gratitude, millions of mice pull the lion out on a cart the Tinman made.
The resolution of the poppy field is not from the book, but it _is_ about the only thing the film used from the 1902 stage musical. The snow scene was apparently a big show-stopper to end Act I, and was still remembered 35 years later.
One small detail that I never hear anyone mention is how the Wizard claims to be from Kansas but when they show his balloon it says Omaha on it which is of course in Nebraska. So apparently he was lying about that too. lol
@@zedwpd lol I understand that happens in real life, but I think it’s possible the filmakers purposely put that on his balloon to show that he lies a lot.
Great reaction video! So happy to have found your channel! The Wizard of Oz was touched on in one of my literature courses back in college, the life and works of L. Frank Baum is so interesting I would have loved an entire course on it than just the brief overview we had. It's been a while but if I remember correctly, in the book Dorothy's slippers were silver. At the time of writing the book there was a discussion going on in the U.S. about leaving the gold standard and using silver instead. Baum was a supporter of this idea and thus had Dorothy's silver slippers walking on yellow bricks symbolizing gold. There was another Oz movie that came out in the 70's called Journey Back To Oz. It was completely animated, except oddly when it aired on television there were live action scenes intercut with the film where Bill Cosby 😱 played The Wizard and he was up in his balloon flying over Oz with two children actors playing munchkins. They were watching Dorothy's adventure below, commenting and trying to help throughout the movie. Judy Garland's daughter, Liza Minnelli, played the voice of Dorothy and sounded so much like Judy Garland it was almost like she was back playing her. Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West in this movie was cast as the voice of Aunt Em. Mickey Rooney, who starred in many movies opposite Judy Garland, voiced the Scarecrow. There were a bunch of other well known actors of the day playing voices in the film. Since you've watched The Wizard of Oz, are you going to watch Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory from 1970? These two movies go together like peanut butter and jelly. It's also based on a book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. It is a great film. Another recommendation for anyone who is a student of art and/or animation, Who Framed Roger Rahbit is a must watch. It is simply an amazing movie and what was done in it can never be done again. Another amazing animated movie from the 1970's is Watership Down, one of the most beautiful non Disney animated movies ever. The hand drawn animation is exquisite! I highly recommend it. Only be forewarned this movie is dark and I really don't think "G" I the right rating for it. It's also an adaptation of a great book. One last recommendation...The movie The Phamtom Tollbooth from the 1960's. Another book adaptation. It is completely animated except for live action scenes bookending the film. It is directed by Chuck Jones, one of the most famous and renowned directors of Looney Tunes shorts and many other animated projects. This is the only feature length film he ever directed. Best Regards!
I don't know how people got to Oz in all the books, but in Ozma of Oz, Dorothy and Uncle Henry are on a ship bound for Australia (for his nerves), when a storm hits. Dorothy goes up on deck thinking he is there and gets blown off, managing to get onto a chicken coop, where she and a chicken from back home (she doesn't know how the chicken gets there) float to the land adjacent to Oz. Later they cross the deadly desert with help of a magic carpet. The chicken coop/chicken floating bit gets Dorothy to Oz in the Disney movie, Return to Oz. And in the next book, Dorothy & The Wizard of Oz, she is in California when a big quake hits. She falls into an open crack and the Wizard, in his balloon, also floats down there. While this is magic land underneath, it takes Ozma later in the story to magically rescue the two and bring them to Oz. PS - I love love love Disney's Return to Oz.
After the fire in Munchkinland, Hamilton refused to do the broom scene with fire. The stunt double did the scene and the mechanism exploded. Hamilton would later film face shots without actual fire, but just the smoke effect behind her.
I wonder if you remember that in the book, the Wizard is from Nebraska! Interesting that in the movie he says he's a Kansas man but his balloon says Omaha. Also, I read the book as a kid but thank you for reminding me of the Tin Woodman's story. I am currently reading Wicked and it is the same story which is pretty cool considering Wicked changed a lot from Baum's world.
This used to be one of my favorite childhood movies. My favorite character was always the Tin Man. I think I had a crush on Dorothy too. Regarding your inquiry on a theme park, there is an abandoned Wizard of Oz amusement park somewhere in North Carolina I think. Been closed since 1980. There’s videos of people going there. There’s also a museum in Wamego, Kansas that has props, wax figures, and other memorabilia.
Return to Oz (84) is a must see.. not a musical, and Dorothy is closer to her age in the books.. also surprisingly dark... not for a Oz story, but for a Disney film, but it was back when Disney was all dark, all the time (Black Couldron, The Black Hole, Escape From Which Mountain, and Something Wicked This Way Comes are from that era too)
I don't know if this has been mentioned but the hugely "popular" (if you know, you know) Broadway musical adaptation of this "Wicked".....is really awesome! I've seen it 11 times! Once in LA, once in Fresno, twice in San Francisco, three times in Sacramento, and four times in NYC....I keep track of things like this, I don't know why....I think it's cause I like to impress people when I tell them I've seen the show 11 times!
Hate to double post, but another geeky fact you might appreciate- the female voice in the Tin man's song is the voice of the voice actress in Disney's Snow White. Snow White was a major impetus for this movie being made.
Fun fact, the land of Oz was divided into four quadrants; each with their own signature color. Yellow is the color of the land of the Winkies in the west. Since Munchkinland is in the east, you’d follow the road to go west. To the center of Oz where the Emerald city is. Red is the color of Quadling country in the South. So the red brick road goes south.
MGM purchased the rights to the first Oz book. Years later, Disney purchased the rights to the following ones (quite a number, both by Baum and later another author). In their c. 1985 Return to Oz, they used the idea that Dorothy had really gone to Oz, but everyone she told thought it was a dream. Having read a bunch of the Oz books as a kid, I loved Return of Oz as it was so much more faithful to the books. It also wasn't a musical. If you have read (or listened to) the first book, you might like Return to Oz. (I haven't seen Wicked and felt that Disney's Oz the Great and Powerful missed the mark.)
From my understanding is during a storm since you have no huge cellar or time to herd them into you just open the barns and pens and let the animals use instinct and run as fast as they can. Gives them a better chance of escape and then eventually you find them.
Yes, someone did make an Oz amusement park. Its called Land of Oz and its in NC. They went out of business, and it's still abandoned though from what I know.
That was a super fun reaction video! The background in animation and design definitely gave it a fresh and interesting take not seen in other Oz reactions I’ve watched. With that in mind, please allow me to recommend a few other movies that I think might make good topics for you channel, if you haven’t seen them already, all with either a unique design aspect, or which sought to interpret animation and/illustration to live action: * THE WIZ (1978) - an urban re-imagining of The Wizard of Oz, with an all-black cast, including Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow, * BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS (1971) - an early(ish) attempt by Disney to mix live action with animation, * SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE (1978) - the movie that made Gen X kids believe a man could fly * BATMAN (1966) - the movie that made Boomer kids believe, some days, you just can’t get rid of a bomb * BATMAN (1989) - Tim Burton's more realistic, yet nightly stylized take on the caped crusader * LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1986) - colorful, highly stylized musical that will force you to never look at houseplants, or dentists, the same way, ever again, * WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988) - all your favorite animated characters are real, and one of them is a murderer!
“Everyone would want to live in a lighthouse” As an Aussie from the nineties Gen… I can only respond with… “Have you ever? Ever felt like this. Have strange things happen… Are you going Round the Twist” Watch Round the twist by the way. It’s about a family with three kids and a single father who move into a lighthouse. There are ghosts and tree spirits and many strange things. It’s the Australian Goosebumps.
Glad someone has read the book. I read the whole series when I was young. Lots of fun and great original illustrations too. "Return to Oz" was closer to the darker fantastical tone of the books. Children's books these days seem pretty bland compared to what I grew up on. Those flying monkeys creeped out generations of children. My childhood scary thing was a ceramic german shepherd's head hanging on my bedroom wall (not my choice). Lots of teeth, big red tongue... not what you want looking down while you sleep. I like your illustrations.
I made the horrible desision to watch this 2 days in a row as a little girl 😱. I had nightmares for a long time that the wicked witch was jumping out next to my bed. 🤯😱😱😱
A really good animated musical film is Gulliver's Travels (1939). It was produced by Max Fleischer, who had created Betty Boop and adapted Popeye for the big screen.
I'm 70 & like many (most?) people of my era, this movie was ingrained in our minds because it was shown on national tv (cbs I think) only once a year on Thanksgiving. It was as much a Txgiving tradition as turkey dinner.
Adrian, the costume designer is/was Adrian Adolph Greenburg (March 3, 1903 - September 13, 1959) an American born in Naugatuck, Connecticut. He designed costumes for hundreds of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films between 1928 and 1941. He was usually credited onscreen with the phrase "Gowns by Adrian". Early in his career he chose the professional name Gilbert Adrian , a combination of his father's forename and his own.
Oz was not the 1st color film, but the most influential for Hollywood. Released in 1939, it shared billing with Gone with the Wind and Stagecoach, John Wayne's first important film. You can look up John Wayne...😊. 1939 was a turning point in Hollywood.
For the horses, you legit just send them on their way. Horses always find their way home and know to run away from the danger. The rest of the animals, the same thing. You get them out of the barn, out of their stalls and pray for the best.
That 80's movie you were talking about was jacked up a bit, one reason is Dianna Ross wanted to play Dorothy, and it was creepy cause she was in her 40's. I never bothered seeing it myself.
I knew about the bathroom being the best place for a twister. I learned that from a Babysitters Club book. I've sort of been in a tornado - I was at school, but there was a tornado about five minutes' drive away that afternoon. It didn't get as far as school, luckily. It did do quite a bit of damage, though, or so I heard. I've never liked windy days - earlier this month, we had the edge of a cyclone pass and it was so windy that you needed a raincoat even when it wasn't raining, and when it did rain, the wind pulled your hood off and the rain seemed to be intent on pelting any part of you it wasn't covering - you could pull the hood right over your face and the rain would still make you look like you'd been crying. By the way, the "wherefore art thou, Romeo" part during If I Only Had A Heart was actually done by Adriana Caselotti, aka Disney's Snow White.
10:40 They were originally silver in the books, apparently it was a reference to the author's idea about US monetary policy at the time (Back when US money was backed by gold and silver). Glinda mentions that the shoes will stay on Dorothy here, but in the book she actually loses one after being tripped. I do find it personally interesting how stories involving women and their shoes (like Cinderella) have them losing them.
In the second Oz book, the Land of Oz, no Dorothy. In the third, Ozma of Oz (literally the first book I ever read), she and Uncle Henry are on a ship going to Australia, and during a storm, Dorothy gets blown overboard. She gets into a chicken coop (also blown of the ship) and floats to Oz. In the next, Dorothy & the Wizard of Oz, she is visiting in California and an earthquake opens a crack which she falls into, to get to Oz. (And the Wizard in his balloon also descends likewise.) Okay, neither take her directly to Oz.
You may enjoy Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It combines animation and live action amazingly well. Right down to the shadows of the cartoons and their effect on things in the real world. Just awesome.
I will have to check out your illustration work. My eighteen-year-old daughter is very good with anime drawing. I loved your reaction and your entertaining channel. I will go through your library and have subbed! All the best!
"taking the dog is kind of excessive but also being in that picnic basket is probably comfy" 😅 and yea the first time i heard this song was definitely 'grim adventures of billy & mandy' only the OG's know😉🤪 this movie is a classic. Cool to see how well they made the land of oz before CGI. Nice reaction.
The 1970s reinterpretation, The Wiz, might interest you. All Black cast, set in NYC, where Dorothy is a kindergarten teacher who's scared to take a job teaching older students. Scarecrow, Tin Man & the Cowardly Lion are imaginatively integrated into a stylized urban environment. Diana Ross plays Dorothy, & Michael Jackson plays Scarecrow. I'd love to see you react to it! You have a new subscriber.
An above ground cement shelter would be the next best choice, and then an interior room without windows (not necessarily a bathroom, but that’s the one room without windows most people have.)
66st...as a Boomer....it shocks me that you;ve never seen this....I was born in 60'...I remember as akid this coming on CBS ONce a Year..it was a Big Deal...and a Family Night so to speak....there was no recording anything ....but boy, do I appreciate seeing it thru your Reaction for the 1st time..........amazing
you need to see - if you did not already " Oz the Great and Powerful" from 2013 ...I appreciated it for what it was - a prequel to this Movie....but Not a Musical...I Liked it
Yes, they changed the shoes to ruby slippers to take advantage of the technicolor process. There is also an Abandoned Wizard Of Oz theme park. “Loins and Tigers and Bears” was part of the original score.
I mean, Lion is made out of actual Lion pelts. And due to the grain of the fur, they couldn’t use more than one. The actor got absolutely drenched in sweat. They couldn’t wash the costume, so he always smelled terrible. So, he is terrifying. Just maybe not for the reasons you thought as a child.
You let the animals run for their lives and worry about finding them later -- putting them in the barn or shed gives them no chance at all -- I had nightmares over this tornado -- didnt help that I lived near a area that as a child was wiped out by one and I saw what one could do
The underlying basic of the story is that people don't realize they actually have the features they think they lack. (Such as the scarecrow being the planner, the tin woodsman, the emotional one, the lion doing brave things despite being afraid.) But the other important part is that people look toward an external fix to their problems and look up to authority, and these people are often frauds, and not needed.
At the beginning of the movie, when Dorothy's aunt and uncle told her they were busy, they weren't "counting eggs." The incubator had failed and they were trying to save the baby chickens.
Great film choice for a reaction.
I'm 54 years old, and as a child in the 1970s, my three favorite live action movies were The Wizard of Oz, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
I also love those three movies too!
I first saw this as a kid on a B&W tv. My mom, who had seen it in the theater as a little girl, tried real hard to explain to us how amazing that the movie switched to color when she got to Oz. We just ... had to use our imaginations.
My family only had a b&w 19” tv when I was a kid so I didn’t even get the sepia tone beginning & ending, much less the full color of Oz. But one Thanksgiving we were visiting my great aunt & uncle & they had a large color console tv & Wizard of Oz was playing. I don’t remember reacting to the color portion per se, but the segment when the witches green face replaced Auntie Em’s in the crystal ball scared me so much I hid behind my uncle’s reclining chair, lol. I remember vividly how much she terrified me to this day some 60 years later! 🫣
The catch phrase "Lions and tigers and bears. Oh my!" came from this film.
MGM came up with the idea of the real people reappearing in Oz. When Disney did Return to Oz (based on the following books and much closer to them), the Oz characters had their counterparts in Kansas, a reversal.
8:00 it’s amazing no matter how many years pass, what generation you’re from, the power of that scene is magical
Fun fact the little pool in Munchkinland was supposed to have ducks in it, but the dye in water turned the ducks blue so the ducks were taken out. Its also surprising how well Burt Lahr was able to move since he was actually wearing an actal lion pelt that weighed over 100 pounds. I enjoyed the review!
I read that he was constantly overheated & dehydrated. Studio lights were much hotter, back then.
@cathyvickers9063 yeah and he was in a lion skin that weighed a lot
Me and my Sister sitting in front of the black and white tv in the 60s every year it came on , that witch gave little boy me so many nightmares! Thanks for reacting to this happy memory nostalgic classic!
Adrian was born Adrian Adolph Greenburg. He was known simply by the name Adrian. His online credits usually were “Gowns by Adrian”.
You should absolutely do live action movies. This was really fun to watch from the standpoint of an artist and you have a great sense of humor.
The Wizard Of Oz has arguably the best songs ever in a musical, so iconic that people know them today without even seeing the movie
They did make a Wizard of Oz Park. You could walk through Oz and it included actual props and costumesfrom the movie. Unfortunately, and ironically, it was heavily damaged by a storm. Occasionally the land still opens up for special events.
Buddy Ebsen was originally cast as the tin man, but he had an allergic reaction to the makeup, so they had to replace him with Jack Haley. Ebsen is best known today as Jed Clampett from The Beverley Hillbillies.
Margaret Hamilton, who played the witch and Miss Gulch, was a kind woman who loved children. It bothered her that children were afraid of her because of the movie. She went on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood to show how she became the witch with costume and makeup, so that children would understand it was only make-believe.
When I was a kid I was more afraid of the flying monkeys than anything else. They really creeped me out.
The "snow" in the poppy field was actually made from asbestos.
Toto got $125 a week. The Munchkins each only got $50 a week.
I heard Buddy Ebsen (on the early years of "The Jerry Springer Show") explain that they used Aluminum Dust in the makeup and he ended up inhaling it, which damaged his lungs. He also said they made the mistake of using stove pipe for the costume, limiting his movement. He jokingly, or not so jokingly, said that when he did a hitch-kick he almost gave himself an ad lib sex change!!! Lol....He said that when he screamed, the director said, "Get him out of here. This part doesn't call for a soprano!!!" Lol
The special affects for this time period was top notch and audiences were amazed. This was a yearly watch for me when I was a kid. Loved it.
The Cowardly Lion costume was made from several actual lion skins.
In addition it weighed 90 pounds
And was muggy as heck. God that must have stank really bad.
Nice review, so heartfelt!
The amazing backstory of "The Wizard of Oz" movie.
- When the wardrobe department got the script, they said Professor Marvel (and The Wizard) required a long coat for the part. Every coat on MGM's lot didn't seem acceptable for the actor Frank Morgan's part, so they sent several assistants out to the thrift stores in the Los Angeles area to search for long coats. After returning with many coats, Mr. Morgan went through them and chose one tattered, old wool coat. He looked at the label, and it was marked with the previous owner's name.
L. Frank Baum. They saw the manufacturer's name, as it was made by hand at a fine clothing shop in England, and contacted the shop, which was still in business, to search their records to verify the owner's having placed an order for this coat in the late 1800's. It was true! How it made it's way to Los Angeles is a mystery. And an even larger mystery was how it was selected by the actor who played The Wizard of Oz, from hunddreds of pieces of clothing on the MGM studio lot.
After filming concluded, the MGM studio presented the coat to L. Frank Baum's family as a souvenir of the film. You see, the author of the original children's book "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" from which this movie was based, was L. Frank Baum!
- Buddy Ebsen (from The Beverly Hillbillies TV show) originally got the part of The Tin Man, but was allergic to the silver face paint, so he had to turn the part down.
- The Ruby Slippers Dorothy wore are considered "The Holy Grail of Hollywood Collectibles"
- "Today in 2001, Judy Garland's "Over The Rainbow" was voted Song Of The Century in a poll conducted by the Recording Industry Association of America, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Scholastic Inc. The song was written for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and became Garland's signature song."*
* www.thecurrent.org/feature/2021/03/02/today-in-music-history-over-the-rainbow-was-song-of-the-century
Now, The Wiz is a must.
Everyone has a special part of the movie to be scared of as kids. My mama is from Oklahoma, and she was terrified of the tornado. I was freaked out by the hourglass.
Everyone should see this once in their lives. Personally I've lost count of the number of times I've seen it. And I've never read the book.
Another famous line, aside from the OREO March was the wizard saying - Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!)
There WAS a park called The Land of Oz out in Beech Mountain, NC. It's been largely abandoned, but they do occasionally open it back up for tours along the Yellow Brick Road, which if you ask me, based on the pics, has more character to it the more weathered it looks.
The woman who played the witch was also a teacher and by all account a lovely person
She also had an appearance in Mr. Rogers Neighbourhood where they taught the kids who were afraid of the witch that it was all make-believe pretend.
2:45 They're not counting eggs, they're trying to save their live chicks because the incubator broke down and you have to get the chicks to someplace warm when that happens.
So yes. In the poppy fields, there was no snow. The Scarecrow and Tinman were able to carry Dorothy and Toto out, but couldn’t lift the heavy Lion. Then Tinman saved the queen of the mice from a bobcat by chopping it with his axe, and in gratitude, millions of mice pull the lion out on a cart the Tinman made.
In the original book, Dorothy really goes to Oz, not a dream. MGM felt that audiences wouldn't accept that hence, the dream bit.
The resolution of the poppy field is not from the book, but it _is_ about the only thing the film used from the 1902 stage musical. The snow scene was apparently a big show-stopper to end Act I, and was still remembered 35 years later.
One small detail that I never hear anyone mention is how the Wizard claims to be from Kansas but when they show his balloon it says Omaha on it which is of course in Nebraska. So apparently he was lying about that too. lol
He said he was a Kansan man himself. Sometimes people take employment in other states like a bordering state of Nebraska.
@@zedwpd lol I understand that happens in real life, but I think it’s possible the filmakers purposely put that on his balloon to show that he lies a lot.
@@EKS511 I never got that feeling. He was balloonist, and traveled from venue to venue.
@@zedwpd in the book he explicitly says “I was born in Omaha…” before being interrupted by Dorothy who notes “That’s not very far from Kansas!”
Great reaction video! So happy to have found your channel!
The Wizard of Oz was touched on in one of my literature courses back in college, the life and works of L. Frank Baum is so interesting I would have loved an entire course on it than just the brief overview we had.
It's been a while but if I remember correctly, in the book Dorothy's slippers were silver. At the time of writing the book there was a discussion going on in the U.S. about leaving the gold standard and using silver instead. Baum was a supporter of this idea and thus had Dorothy's silver slippers walking on yellow bricks symbolizing gold.
There was another Oz movie that came out in the 70's called Journey Back To Oz. It was completely animated, except oddly when it aired on television there were live action scenes intercut with the film where Bill Cosby 😱 played The Wizard and he was up in his balloon flying over Oz with two children actors playing munchkins. They were watching Dorothy's adventure below, commenting and trying to help throughout the movie.
Judy Garland's daughter, Liza Minnelli, played the voice of Dorothy and sounded so much like Judy Garland it was almost like she was back playing her. Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West in this movie was cast as the voice of Aunt Em. Mickey Rooney, who starred in many movies opposite Judy Garland, voiced the Scarecrow. There were a bunch of other well known actors of the day playing voices in the film.
Since you've watched The Wizard of Oz, are you going to watch Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory from 1970? These two movies go together like peanut butter and jelly. It's also based on a book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. It is a great film.
Another recommendation for anyone who is a student of art and/or animation, Who Framed Roger Rahbit is a must watch. It is simply an amazing movie and what was done in it can never be done again.
Another amazing animated movie from the 1970's is Watership Down, one of the most beautiful non Disney animated movies ever. The hand drawn animation is exquisite! I highly recommend it. Only be forewarned this movie is dark and I really don't think "G" I the right rating for it. It's also an adaptation of a great book.
One last recommendation...The movie The Phamtom Tollbooth from the 1960's. Another book adaptation. It is completely animated except for live action scenes bookending the film. It is directed by Chuck Jones, one of the most famous and renowned directors of Looney Tunes shorts and many other animated projects. This is the only feature length film he ever directed.
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I don't know how people got to Oz in all the books, but in Ozma of Oz, Dorothy and Uncle Henry are on a ship bound for Australia (for his nerves), when a storm hits. Dorothy goes up on deck thinking he is there and gets blown off, managing to get onto a chicken coop, where she and a chicken from back home (she doesn't know how the chicken gets there) float to the land adjacent to Oz. Later they cross the deadly desert with help of a magic carpet. The chicken coop/chicken floating bit gets Dorothy to Oz in the Disney movie, Return to Oz.
And in the next book, Dorothy & The Wizard of Oz, she is in California when a big quake hits. She falls into an open crack and the Wizard, in his balloon, also floats down there. While this is magic land underneath, it takes Ozma later in the story to magically rescue the two and bring them to Oz.
PS - I love love love Disney's Return to Oz.
After the fire in Munchkinland, Hamilton refused to do the broom scene with fire. The stunt double did the scene and the mechanism exploded. Hamilton would later film face shots without actual fire, but just the smoke effect behind her.
I don't know what happened to this channel but I just found it and the videos I've watched so far have been so much fun, please come back! T_T
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I wonder if you remember that in the book, the Wizard is from Nebraska! Interesting that in the movie he says he's a Kansas man but his balloon says Omaha. Also, I read the book as a kid but thank you for reminding me of the Tin Woodman's story. I am currently reading Wicked and it is the same story which is pretty cool considering Wicked changed a lot from Baum's world.
This used to be one of my favorite childhood movies. My favorite character was always the Tin Man. I think I had a crush on Dorothy too.
Regarding your inquiry on a theme park, there is an abandoned Wizard of Oz amusement park somewhere in North Carolina I think. Been closed since 1980. There’s videos of people going there.
There’s also a museum in Wamego, Kansas that has props, wax figures, and other memorabilia.
A little known trivia about the book. In the book...the land of Oz WASN'T a dream. Dorothy actually physically went to another world.
Return to Oz (84) is a must see.. not a musical, and Dorothy is closer to her age in the books.. also surprisingly dark... not for a Oz story, but for a Disney film, but it was back when Disney was all dark, all the time (Black Couldron, The Black Hole, Escape From Which Mountain, and Something Wicked This Way Comes are from that era too)
The best statement from a young person about the Wizard of Oz I have ever heard: "Forget Star Wars, I want this." Beautiful!
"Cowardly lion walked so 2019 Cats could run." lol.
I don't know if this has been mentioned but the hugely "popular" (if you know, you know) Broadway musical adaptation of this "Wicked".....is really awesome! I've seen it 11 times! Once in LA, once in Fresno, twice in San Francisco, three times in Sacramento, and four times in NYC....I keep track of things like this, I don't know why....I think it's cause I like to impress people when I tell them I've seen the show 11 times!
I meant that "Wicked" is based on a book of the same name, which is a retelling of "The Wizard of Oz" from the Wicked Witch of the West's perspective
I enjoyed your reaction! This was a great first crossover movie. Think about watching "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" for another crossover movie.
Also has a reference to this movie.
Nope. If she hasn't seen Roger Rabbit yet, I'm not giving anything away.
Gone with the wind was also made in 1939 and it was in color throughout the entire movie.
Hate to double post, but another geeky fact you might appreciate- the female voice in the Tin man's song is the voice of the voice actress in Disney's Snow White. Snow White was a major impetus for this movie being made.
There was a Land of Oz park in Beech Mountain, NC.
You should watch MARY POPPINS!! IT IS AN AMAZING MOVIE!! The mix of live action and animation is INSANE especially for 1964!!! You will love it!! 🤩👏✨🙌
Fun fact, the land of Oz was divided into four quadrants; each with their own signature color. Yellow is the color of the land of the Winkies in the west. Since Munchkinland is in the east, you’d follow the road to go west. To the center of Oz where the Emerald city is. Red is the color of Quadling country in the South. So the red brick road goes south.
There should be a blue road that goes east to Munchkinland and a purple road that goes north to the land of the Gillykins.
Put Toto on a leash? In the country? Ahhhh-Huh! The witches guards are chanting "Oh we love, the old one"
Used to watch this with my mom every single Thanksgiving cause they aired it every Thanksgiving. One of my absolute favorites
MGM purchased the rights to the first Oz book. Years later, Disney purchased the rights to the following ones (quite a number, both by Baum and later another author). In their c. 1985 Return to Oz, they used the idea that Dorothy had really gone to Oz, but everyone she told thought it was a dream.
Having read a bunch of the Oz books as a kid, I loved Return of Oz as it was so much more faithful to the books. It also wasn't a musical. If you have read (or listened to) the first book, you might like Return to Oz. (I haven't seen Wicked and felt that Disney's Oz the Great and Powerful missed the mark.)
From my understanding is during a storm since you have no huge cellar or time to herd them into you just open the barns and pens and let the animals use instinct and run as fast as they can. Gives them a better chance of escape and then eventually you find them.
The Wizard Machine-hologram still looks amazing to this day.
Yes, someone did make an Oz amusement park. Its called Land of Oz and its in NC. They went out of business, and it's still abandoned though from what I know.
Though it went out of business, they still do tours in the summer and fall, complete with live characters from the Wizard of Oz.
Color movies was pretty new, this was the first movie with color from this movie studio, hence color in movies had it's entrance here.
That was a super fun reaction video! The background in animation and design definitely gave it a fresh and interesting take not seen in other Oz reactions I’ve watched.
With that in mind, please allow me to recommend a few other movies that I think might make good topics for you channel, if you haven’t seen them already, all with either a unique design aspect, or which sought to interpret animation and/illustration to live action:
* THE WIZ (1978) - an urban re-imagining of The Wizard of Oz, with an all-black cast, including Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow,
* BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS (1971) - an early(ish) attempt by Disney to mix live action with animation,
* SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE (1978) - the movie that made Gen X kids believe a man could fly
* BATMAN (1966) - the movie that made Boomer kids believe, some days, you just can’t get rid of a bomb
* BATMAN (1989) - Tim Burton's more realistic, yet nightly stylized take on the caped crusader
* LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1986) - colorful, highly stylized musical that will force you to never look at houseplants, or dentists, the same way, ever again,
* WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988) - all your favorite animated characters are real, and one of them is a murderer!
“Everyone would want to live in a lighthouse”
As an Aussie from the nineties Gen… I can only respond with… “Have you ever? Ever felt like this. Have strange things happen… Are you going Round the Twist”
Watch Round the twist by the way. It’s about a family with three kids and a single father who move into a lighthouse. There are ghosts and tree spirits and many strange things. It’s the Australian Goosebumps.
Glad someone has read the book. I read the whole series when I was young. Lots of fun and great original illustrations too.
"Return to Oz" was closer to the darker fantastical tone of the books. Children's books these days seem pretty bland compared to what I grew up on.
Those flying monkeys creeped out generations of children. My childhood scary thing was a ceramic german shepherd's head hanging on my bedroom wall (not my choice). Lots of teeth, big red tongue... not what you want looking down while you sleep.
I like your illustrations.
Hmm, I had that ceramic German shepherd's head too! I guess it used to be a thing back in the day. Weird stuff...
I made the horrible desision to watch this 2 days in a row as a little girl 😱. I had nightmares for a long time that the wicked witch was jumping out next to my bed. 🤯😱😱😱
I was more worried about the Flying Monkeys lol
Glenda was just using Dorothy as her Witch/Wizard toppler. Now Glenda is the most powerful figure in Oz. :P (joking)
A really good animated musical film is Gulliver's Travels (1939). It was produced by Max Fleischer, who had created Betty Boop and adapted Popeye for the big screen.
I'm 70 & like many (most?) people of my era, this movie was ingrained in our minds because it was shown on national tv (cbs I think) only once a year on Thanksgiving. It was as much a Txgiving tradition as turkey dinner.
Adrian, the costume designer is/was Adrian Adolph Greenburg (March 3, 1903 - September 13, 1959) an American born in Naugatuck, Connecticut. He designed costumes for hundreds of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films between 1928 and 1941. He was usually credited onscreen with the phrase "Gowns by Adrian". Early in his career he chose the professional name Gilbert Adrian , a combination of his father's forename and his own.
This movie ranked at #86 in the 100 scariest movie moments on Bravo
Oz was not the 1st color film, but the most influential for Hollywood. Released in 1939, it shared billing with Gone with the Wind and Stagecoach, John Wayne's first important film. You can look up John Wayne...😊. 1939 was a turning point in Hollywood.
For the horses, you legit just send them on their way. Horses always find their way home and know to run away from the danger. The rest of the animals, the same thing. You get them out of the barn, out of their stalls and pray for the best.
Movie is basically two women fight to the death over a pair of shoes!
i work in retail, still see this once a week.
Adrian is one of the greatest, designers in cinema history.
"I've never been in an actual tornado..." REALLY!?!🤣
That 80's movie you were talking about was jacked up a bit, one reason is Dianna Ross wanted to play Dorothy, and it was creepy cause she was in her 40's. I never bothered seeing it myself.
Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely go check out Mary Poppins 1964! It’s heavenly, and there’s a chalk-painting sequence I think you’d like to see!
I knew about the bathroom being the best place for a twister. I learned that from a Babysitters Club book. I've sort of been in a tornado - I was at school, but there was a tornado about five minutes' drive away that afternoon. It didn't get as far as school, luckily. It did do quite a bit of damage, though, or so I heard. I've never liked windy days - earlier this month, we had the edge of a cyclone pass and it was so windy that you needed a raincoat even when it wasn't raining, and when it did rain, the wind pulled your hood off and the rain seemed to be intent on pelting any part of you it wasn't covering - you could pull the hood right over your face and the rain would still make you look like you'd been crying.
By the way, the "wherefore art thou, Romeo" part during If I Only Had A Heart was actually done by Adriana Caselotti, aka Disney's Snow White.
That was a fun reaction. Great vid!
There actually is a place called “Land of Oz” in Beech Mountain North Carolina.
10:40 They were originally silver in the books, apparently it was a reference to the author's idea about US monetary policy at the time (Back when US money was backed by gold and silver).
Glinda mentions that the shoes will stay on Dorothy here, but in the book she actually loses one after being tripped. I do find it personally interesting how stories involving women and their shoes (like Cinderella) have them losing them.
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They changed it to Ruby because Silver Shoes is a no no in technicolor
In the second Oz book, the Land of Oz, no Dorothy. In the third, Ozma of Oz (literally the first book I ever read), she and Uncle Henry are on a ship going to Australia, and during a storm, Dorothy gets blown overboard. She gets into a chicken coop (also blown of the ship) and floats to Oz. In the next, Dorothy & the Wizard of Oz, she is visiting in California and an earthquake opens a crack which she falls into, to get to Oz. (And the Wizard in his balloon also descends likewise.) Okay, neither take her directly to Oz.
You may enjoy Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It combines animation and live action amazingly well. Right down to the shadows of the cartoons and their effect on things in the real world. Just awesome.
I will have to check out your illustration work. My eighteen-year-old daughter is very good with anime drawing. I loved your reaction and your entertaining channel. I will go through your library and have subbed! All the best!
The lion was always my favorite character, so relatable and so hilarious
Pretty sure they changed his paint from aluminum to something else, as well as the actor who played Tin Man.
"maybe it's comfy in the basket?" Ya do know she was taking the dog to be destroyed?
It always surprises me just how well this film holds up.
Also, the Witch is *the* shit.
The 4K blu-ray is a must buy
"taking the dog is kind of excessive but also being in that picnic basket is probably comfy" 😅 and yea the first time i heard this song was definitely 'grim adventures of billy & mandy' only the OG's know😉🤪 this movie is a classic. Cool to see how well they made the land of oz before CGI. Nice reaction.
They didn’t add fire when she got burned. The elevator that she was supposed to go down went down too fast and it exploded
The 1970s reinterpretation, The Wiz, might interest you. All Black cast, set in NYC, where Dorothy is a kindergarten teacher who's scared to take a job teaching older students. Scarecrow, Tin Man & the Cowardly Lion are imaginatively integrated into a stylized urban environment.
Diana Ross plays Dorothy, & Michael Jackson plays Scarecrow.
I'd love to see you react to it!
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An above ground cement shelter would be the next best choice, and then an interior room without windows (not necessarily a bathroom, but that’s the one room without windows most people have.)
Hey why did she stopped making videos?
I hope she is ok...
Nice one! One of the great landmarks in cinema - and landmarks in special effects and makeup!
Everyone knows, the guards are singing "Orioles!" because they're Baltimore baseball fans. Sheesh.
66st...as a Boomer....it shocks me that you;ve never seen this....I was born in 60'...I remember as akid this coming on CBS ONce a Year..it was a Big Deal...and a Family Night so to speak....there was no recording anything ....but boy, do I appreciate seeing it thru your Reaction for the 1st time..........amazing
you need to see - if you did not already " Oz the Great and Powerful" from 2013 ...I appreciated it for what it was - a prequel to this Movie....but Not a Musical...I Liked it
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The Wizard of Oz is a true classic! 🌟
They weren't counting eggs, the incubator failed and the baby chickens were going to freeze to death if they didn't find a way to keep them warm.
Yes, they changed the shoes to ruby slippers to take advantage of the technicolor process. There is also an Abandoned Wizard Of Oz theme park. “Loins and Tigers and Bears” was part of the original score.
Yeah, because silver of all colors was not going to be particularly impressive in the first ever color movie 😂
Thank you Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg.
You let the horses run free and get them back later.
Nope, no scared of the cowardly lion ... terrified of the flying monkeys!
Great review. I believe they changed the shoe color due to the original silver color was lost in the technicolor.
I mean, Lion is made out of actual Lion pelts. And due to the grain of the fur, they couldn’t use more than one. The actor got absolutely drenched in sweat. They couldn’t wash the costume, so he always smelled terrible. So, he is terrifying. Just maybe not for the reasons you thought as a child.
Did you know that Adrian was actually the inspiration for Cruella De Vil? It's a Rock Fact!
You let the animals run for their lives and worry about finding them later -- putting them in the barn or shed gives them no chance at all -- I had nightmares over this tornado -- didnt help that I lived near a area that as a child was wiped out by one and I saw what one could do
The underlying basic of the story is that people don't realize they actually have the features they think they lack. (Such as the scarecrow being the planner, the tin woodsman, the emotional one, the lion doing brave things despite being afraid.)
But the other important part is that people look toward an external fix to their problems and look up to authority, and these people are often frauds, and not needed.