Walt Disney's Wizard Of Oz
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2007
- This special aired on September 11th 1957.
Walt Disney had always wanted to make a film based on the Oz stories. In 1954, when the movie rights to various Oz books became available, Walt purchased them. Soon, scripts were written for a movie in "Widescreen, color, the works.." But for some reason it was never made. Pretty incredible how much they hyped it.
Such a shame that this never got made. It would have been nice to see the Mousekateers in a full length film. They certainly had the talent for it and the casting seemed spot on. Annette would have made a beautiful Ozma and Darleen had the perfect girl next door vibe for Dorothy. Bobby was a worthy successor to Ray Bolger's Scarcrow and while the patchwork girl's makeup was a little creepy, Doreen was adorable and her dancing was great. Yes this presentation was rather barebones, but you can tell it had potential and with a proper budget, it could have been something.
Amen! Annette was perfect for the role of Ozma; beautiful, graceful, mild of manner, and confident of bearing. Still, she did get to wear that wig in a movie when she played Mary Contrary in Disney's _Babes in Toyland,_ which also starred Ray Bolger as the sinister Barnaby.
Walt knew it would've been difficult to top the 1939 classic.
Sean Pultz I wonder what the film would have been like if it were made by Disney as a cartoon; I bet Dorothy would sing to the animals on her farm, the wolves and crows and bees the witch sent after Dorothy and her friends could have been her talking animal sidekicks along with her monkeys, I had this idea of the witch turning into a giant shadowy figure with flames around her and then Dorothy splashes her with water from a magical lake and the figure shrinks down in smoke leaving only a witch's hat on a bare branch, I also had the idea of the witch's monkeys being her subjects who she transformed into flying monkeys and the Emerald City gate talking and asking a riddle before allowing them in which the scarecrow answers and the poppies singing and putting Dorothy and the lion asleep, these were just ideas, I wonder if it would have been more or less similar to the book, the movie made the wicked witch more of an antagonist. The movie also cut one of the good witches so there would be one good witch and one bad witch. The movie also cut the trip to the Quaddling Country. Would Disney have made the same changes?
Naw._. Disney and cs lewis and Huxley did it by creating a shooting script of oswald by mirroring perceptions to reality and calling it "marina in wonderland". 1963 . Has oswald rabbit bring a girl to president of hearts death.
Interesting notions, although I don't go for the Winged Monkeys being transformed Winkies; it smacks too much of an idea they'd had at MGM of having the Cowardly Lion being the enchanted Prince Floriel (later Prince Kenelm), turned into a beast so that the WWW could marry her inept son to the Prince's lady love.
Nifty ideas, though! :-)
He knew it would be difficult to top the Garland film, so he made Babes In Toyland instead which didn't top the Laurel & Hardy film? Although he had Henry Calvin and Gene Shelton (from Zorro) to basically play the L&H roles.
+Jonmouk71 The L&H "Babes" wasn't the first version of that story. Then again, nor was MGM's the first adaptation of "Wonderful Wizard."
Rest in Peace, Annette Funicello, a perfect Ozma.
The Scarecrow and the Patch Work Girl sure would have made a very brainy couple.
YESSSS
They all were REALLY TALENTED!!!!!
When I met Darlene & some other Mousketeers on 10/4 at Walt Disney Family Museum, Darlene said she definitely wore ruby slippers when wearing Dorothy costume in this segment. Doreen also said it took on hour to get that paint makeup on as Patches. Jimmie Dodd was definitely Cowardly Lion in scene as well.
You can tell that DISNEY STUDIOS felt that Darlene would go the farthest, career-wise, but the Fans of the MMC all loved ANNETTE, so the studio switched it's area of concentration.
I remember Walt Disney. Before his debut started on July 17, 1955 he asked me to be a dancer there. He knew I was a child perfomer and that I should perform there. I will never forget him.
really!!!!
@Terry Macneil Well, at least he had a chance to say something before he passed away.
I loved those character designs; it's a pity Disney never did do an animated Oz feature.
Ohhh now that would have been awesome and WHAT IF Walt Disney actually did made The Wizard Of Oz animated feature very similar like Alice In Wonderland.
@@TheImaginator972 I doubt we'll ever know. While there are many musical versions of _Wizard,_ the only one most people know is the MGM movie from 1939. But it might still happen one day, preferably after wokeness has died the death.
A friend of mine in Canada co-created a fantastic stage version using musical styles which were around when the book was published in 1900.
@@MaskedMan66 I may have read about that production. Is that the one written by Joe Cascone?
@@h193013 And James Doyle, yes indeed! 🙂 My wife and I saw the show in 2002, when Joe played Baum/The Wizard for the first time. We have a DVD of the show in a prominent place in our house.
@@MaskedMan66 I’d like to see it
i love the way Darlene talks :)
"What about money" -Walt Disney.
You need money to make a film.
ScrimZoola in loving memory-Walt Disney
+SMD sth91 Why don't you try making a movie without money and let us know how it goes?
SMD sth91
Actors, sets, cameras, equipment, computers and the list goes on
No no no. That's todays Disney. This guy is harmless than what trolls on the internet to make him out.
This is incredibly cute! I don't remember ever seeing before thanks.
the patch-work girl freacks me out
A LOT
-_-
Why?
She's cute
And I love patchwork × scarecrow 🥰
"Freacks?"
1:23 That drawing of the Patchwork Girl is so cute. Most illustrations draw her looking so creepy.
You think so? I always thought she looked funny.
"Btw, I think disney & tim burton should team up and do a version that's accurate to Baum's original book...that would be freaking awesome"
Warner Bros. OWNS the original book and the movie that it inspired. Disney OWNS all the rest, from The Marvelous Land of Oz onward (Return to Oz was a dark merger of The Marvelous Land of Oz & Ozma of Oz).
Tim Burton would ruin it like he ruined "Alice."
All the Baum books are in the public domain.
Yea those exclusive rights to the literary works expired long ago. Film adaptations from the 20s are PD and the 1936 is still copyrighted but not for long.
No all the books are now in the public domain
@@kj21 yes
I would love to see this animated
Walt's great unfinished work. I have done alot of research on this film and the best guess as why he didn't make it was A. He had difficulty deciding how to film it,Live-action or animated. B. remember He was spending more time working on Disneyland then anything else at that time. So I guess he figured that it would take more time and effort he wished to spend on Oz to make it a reality as opposed to Disneyland which caught his creative spark. and also Disneyland was very expensive to build.
Okay, to fully "get" this, one has to be well versed in Frank Baum lore aside from the MGM/Judy Garland classic. Ozma and the Patchwork Girl were characters in the later post "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" books by Frank Baum. However, this "Rainbow Road to Oz" sounds as if it would have been a fascinating film. I suppose we can be thankful that this, as well as Frank Baum's books, still remain.
That's L. Frank Baum.
Wow, I have NEVER seen this! :) I knew Uncle Walt had the rights to the Wizard of Oz but this is a gem to find. :) Thank you so much for posting! :)
Not just the first book.
This print looks fantastic. Darlene, Bobby and Cubby were my favorites. I saw Don Grady (Agrati) in amongst the crowd and Tommy Kirk, as well. He wasn't a mousketeer, though, was he? Annette looked like a fine dancer, from the little we saw of her. Thanks for posting.
I think he was a sort of honorary Mouseketeer, because he was in a lot of the serials that they ran on "The Mickey Mouse Club," including playing Joe Hardy in "The Hardy Boys."
Dorothy sounds more Texan than Kansas XD
This was presented on "DISNEYLAND"'s "Fourth Anniversary Show". Walt HAD intended to produce "The Rainbow Road To Oz", but, like most of his other "dream projects", it was ultimately abandoned (the fact that "THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB" ceased production after the 1957-'58 season in favor of repeats for season four, and the studio allowed the contracts of every "Mouseketeer"- except Annette- to expire, those were certainly factors in the decision to quietly end the project).
wow kinda interesting that it aired on september 11th. nice to know back then there were nice things and didnt have to wory about much.
Walt: sorry kids, but I would much rather make something creepier called "Return to Oz" and release it several decades later after my death.
I'd rather watch a Oz movie that doesn't copy the original movie over and over again and stick closer to the books.
@@brandonspain12345 And that's not even the original movie!
A very stupid comment. What he chose over this was _Babes in Toyland._
@@brandonspain12345 I've never seen anything copy the 1910 movie.
Man those kids were good.
return to oz.... def the best of the Oz movies
This is the entire "Rainbow Road To Oz" segment. If you want to see the original episode that includes uh, other 'stuff', you can get the Walt Disney Treasures "Your Host, Walt Disney" DVD. : )
DRfiguremaina, a lot of things from abandoned Disney projects made it into later films. That film's "Beautiful Briny Sea" was originally written for "Mary Poppins."
I can't even tell if that's a Rainbow Road when everything is in Black and White
HAHAHA
You can't figure it out from the title or the song lyrics?
am i the only person that thinks this episode and other episodes of the mickey mouse club should be restored in color and put on DVD like the shirley temple stuff
@TheProudAmerican777 "Return to Oz" was made in 1985 when CG was barely out of its cradle, and it didn't use any CGI at all. The music was brilliant and had a great "turn of the century" feel to it. It was certainly no more overdone than the MGM film or "The Wiz."
I really wish that Walt would've been able to make an Oz movie. Every movie that Disney did when Walt was actually around and involved is amazing and IMO still the best of Disney films to this day so I could only imagine where he could've went with his imagination for Oz.
That was very...of it's time. Glad to finally see it, though.
About 20 years ago, the local library had a huge book all about Oz. There was a screencap and description of this one. For some reason, I remember it as being in color, though...
Odd how they went for Babes in Toyland instead.
What a pity, I'd so have loved to own Disney's Rainbow Road to Oz in Beta-Max, Disney's Return to Oz in VHS, Disney's Muppets' Wizard of Oz in DVD, and the Great and Powerful of Oz in Blu-Ray.
I love both films, but I do like Return to Oz with its faithfulness a little better.
Don't get me wrong. I do love the MGM film too.
Baum would have loved it too. I mean, he enjoyed (and was in on the planning for) the 1902 stage version, which was an enormous success, but went several parsecs away from the book.
Ended up doing "Babes in Toyland" instead.
Still with Annette and that wig she wore.
You can't compare the two...the 1939 version is a musical and VASTLY different from the books...the 1985 one was well done and true to the books. BOTH are very good in their own ways.
Of course you can compare them in terms of production design and character portrayals and things like that. As for VASTLY different from the book, have you ever heard of the first-ever adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz?" It was a musical stage extravaganza which went very far afield of its source-- even though Baum himself was in on the ground floor of it.
The Patch-Work Girl is scarier than Jigsaw.
Not as scary as the 1918 version.
She's adorable, what are you talking about?
@@burgersoft777 There isn't a 1918 version.
I like the Mickey Mouse Club, Walt Disney, and the Wizard of Oz, but that was just strange.
I really do wish they made a Wizard of Oz animated feature. They would do really well, but I wonder Walt didn't do it in the end.
Um.... OZ IS STRANGE!!!! That's its appeal. And do you mean specifically "Wizard of Oz" or "Oz" in general? Because there's tons more to Oz than old Oscar Diggs. 🙂
Wow, i have some photo stills (real ones, not digital scans)from this, but never saw this episode! Many thanks for posting!
@JohnnyGNV But Annette was still the perfect choice to play Ozma; she had the beauty, grace, and serenity to fit the role exactly.
Oddly disturbing reel. What a strange era that was...
Mickey was there all along and nobody noticed
Instead of this we got Babes in Toyland.
wow. (probably commented before) It's mooch and wilby from shaggy dog ^_^ what a great surprise from mentalfloss today :D
That patchwork girl frightened me a little :-O
Why?
Lol😂 poor thing. Hell snow ride at Disneyland scared me 4 yrs n that was as adult lol. Bug i am glad they changed it. Lol..n i still get scard of stuff lol..😮😂
I saw this on the WD Treasures disc and found it to be simultaneously sweet and creepy. So glad to hear I'm not alone on this.
its a mix of the road to oz and baum's the patchwork girl film mixed together
The best adaptation of Oz books is the anime series "Oz no Mahou Tsukai", Its fantastic!
Sara Rico The one where the dub is narrated by Margot Kidder? Live that one. Used to watch it s a kid. I wish it had had more seasons.
Extremely talented kids! High production quality. This should have been made for sure!
I am so glad this Oz movie was never made. Thank god for Return to Oz.
This would have been great fun.
Great homework, Barry. It was always about the money, contrary to what Uncle Walt promised.
Let's one wondering why they never got around to making it.
I'd love to see what Tim Burton would do to the patchwork girl!
Nightmare before Christmas Sally
Ruin her, like he ruins everything that he didn't create himself.
Walt's voice was affected by years of smoking.
Your point being?
@@MaskedMan66 Why Mickey's voice seems off.
*Bart Simpson impersonation* Can't sleep. Scraps will eat me. Can't sleep. Scraps will eat me.
???
I'm really sad this never got made. Such catchy songs.
What's with Mickey's voice, though?
Walt just smoked cigarettes which had damaged his vocal cords
Mickey isn't in this.
When I met Darlene in 2015, she told me when I asked her if she wore Ruby, or Silver slippers as Dorothy in this version-SHE SAID RUBY SLIPPERS!!!!!:)
Which is daft, because Dorothy LOST the shoes on her trip back to Kansas.
Dorothy was killed in 65._.
The only " Os/Oz shooting script" known is called the warren report._.
"Well, we figure that in an artistic production such as this, money is of secondary importance, right?"
And all the economists in the world sigh with disdain.
Nobody said that.
For the record, this originally appeared on "DISNEYLAND" as a segment of its "Fourth Anniversary Show" on September 11, 1957. This WAS intended to be a "preview" of the film Disney wanted to produce...but never did. The Mouseketeers rarely appeared on the prime-time show (even with Kevin "Moochie" Corcoran as a "ringer"; he only appeared in the "MICKEY MOUSE CLUB" serials).
I like that Scraps is in the story but it's not very faithful to the first few books... and for some reason her eyes look scary whenever she's depicted visually. They need to change her face just a little from the original illustration.
curiouser and curiouser lol. This was part of the Disneyland (TV) 10th anniversary show. I don't know wether the scripts are available or not.
Because the others were actually based on Baum's books, the 1939 movie was only very loosely so.
Not as loosely as the 1902 stage version that Baum himself co-created.
which disney treasure disc was it? I can't get enough of the patchwork girl
By the way, Kevin "Moochie" Corcoran was NOT an official "Mouseketeer"- why the studio insisted he wear the outfit and "Mousekaears", and pass himself off as one for this segment, I have no idea; he was primarily a supporting player in the "CLUB" serials {"Adventure in Dairyland", "The Further Adventures of Spin & Marty", et. al.}.
The *Magic of *Walt
@josephmlong It's the "Frankenstein" effect, I expect. And Scraps is definitely a gal who can at least surprise you at the most random moments.
One of the best by Doreen and their Ray Bolger like choreography was swell. I did object to the dubbed voices; neither Dor, nor Bob were known for their singing but would have sounded more true to their pixilated characters if heard. There is also more of us on this show. I recall Bonnie [our second Bonnie on the series, the late Lynn Fields] and I doing a soft show number in front of a carriage with other Mice looking on. It was 1957, our third season, about 64 years ago, and I have not seen this part of the "Fourth Anniversary Show" from the DISNEYLAND TV show that premiered in 1954 before THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB in 1955 for decades. It is not, nor was meant be, Fred Astaire et. al. as teenagers in a "slick" Hollywood Musical but it was entertaining then and enjoyable now. Not everything is a literal cartoon, nor a car chase, nor violence incarnate. Their is still, for some of us, things that are fanciful and not asswiftaspossible u no! Mouseketeer Lonnie Burr [the blond guy with the suspenders].
The mouseketers really introduced Walt Disney the stories of Oz
No, he was quite familiar with the books before any of those kids were even born. In fact, he had bid on the film rights in the 1930's, but was outbid by MGM.
I'd so have loved to see Dorothy fall head over heels with her eventual boyfriend and his younger brother fall head over heels with Ozma's younger sister.
Actually if Cubby got 2 play her cousin Zeb Hugson, he probably would've had a crush on Polychrome (Karen) 👨🌾💕👱♀️🌈
Dorothy never had a boyfriend. The boy she's dancing with is her cousin.
@@gabrielvidrio3210 Cubby played Button-Bright in this.
I so sad to bad this thing was cancelled
Disney really seemed to be giving Darlene a lot of focus, having her play Dorothy while Annette was relegated to 2nd female lead Ozma. Everything went south after that I guess, when Disney did not renew Darlene's contract(or any of the other Mouseketeers' contracts) but kept Annette on.
Wouldn’t be neat if instead of song of the south they could have made a wizard of oz cartoon movie!!!
Okay now wait. I'm as hardcore an Oz fan as the next person, but for all of its fan-fictiousness as you say, Wicked was a good book. Obviously, if it hadn't been, it wouldn't have earned the priviledge of being turned into a musical (even if the musical does stray horrifically from the book's plot).
The Patchwork Girl has come to cinch the deal...
If this movie actually came out I wonder how it would compare to the Judy garland movie
Why should it? Let it be its own animal. After all, there were seven Oz movies before the MGM one.
During the song Patches,the scare says cotton brains and points to the patchwork girl's head.Why cotton, her brains are not cotton.They are liquid brains.For those who do not know about patches the patchwork girl,Google her and click on the Oz wiki link.
They always change things in movies, you know that. I mean the Wizard is described in the book as having a bald head, but MGM's Wizard has a full head of hair.
Doreen is creepy as hell as the Patchwork girl!
No shit. I had to minimize my browser when I first saw this
"Creepy" how? She's adorable.
+kory stephens You're more cowardly than the Lion.
@@SuperWolsey LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
See it in color then Doreen is not creepy at all!!
Uncle Walt was likely getting anxious for a cigarette while filming this special.
Why do you say that?
Patchwork girl was craaaazzzyyy, lol.
Danielle Newman Crazy as a quilt.
@princerei
I can't wait to read your book! I am a HUGE "Oz" fan!
I love this film I think Walt Disney did a good job on this
I too love the 1963 shooting script for Os/Oz ._.
The Kennedy assassination ._.
To solve the Kennedy assassination, look for all the Disney associated clues._.
This is really cute. :D
Amen to that
Conspicuous in their absence from this segment are Tommy Cole and Sharon Baird, who for obvious reasons, would probably have made a great munchkin.
The mouseketers and Walt's set up on their story run through is quite similar on their mouseketer picture with Walt, the colored picture.
Just found out Disney had made parts of this adaptation. Loved it. However, now I have to search for rickety vinyl. Because the music was never put on a decent CD, let alone on a download... Half a dozen Oz records from Disney exist plus one cassette tape.
@MaskedMan66 No it follows The original plot, and the early draft of The Judy Garland one!
It'd be interesting if this project actually got off the ground. I really love this story in all its forms, and although I don't think Disney's would be perfect, there was potential.
@oldblackhat The "mirror-image" thing was strictly MGM. In the original story there were no farmhands, no Professor Marvel, and no Miss Gulch. Oz was something vastly different from Kansas, and after five trips to Oz, Dorothy Gale left Kansas behind and settled in Oz with her aunt, uncle, dog, and cat.
It's too bad this OZ movie never came to fruition
I was born 2 days after this show aired, on September 13
@UndeadPrincess Bravo!
I don't get why poeple are always fighting over whether the Wicked Witch of the West is good or bad. IThere to different stories and truly, I don't think they should be compared. Personnally, I love Wicked, and the classic Oz stories by Baum. When I think about baum's stories I consider the WW of the W, a hiorrible, crual, b***hy old hag, when I think about Wicked I consider her a sweet, somewhat naive, fiery-tempered girl.
You know, two of these songs are quite good. I like Doreen Tracey's "Patches" number (she's such a scene stealer), and the "Rainbow Road To Oz" finalé is also catchy. However, I can't say the same for that "Oz Kan Hop" number. It's obviously just a reworking of the old Warren & Mercer tune "On The Atchison Topeka & The Santa Fe," and probably would've wound up edited out of the final product...Much the same way that "Jitterbug" number was excised from MGM's "Wizard."
@TherealRNO The books are in the public domain.
You know, I wish I remake the wizard of Oz with TIM BURTON!! I character design them. My Patchwork Girl is inspired by Sally!
Yeah, because what we need is Tim Burton hiring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter to crap all over another classic.
No Johnny Depp or Helena Bonham Carter. I rather pick someone else who will play as, besides, Johnny's been in too much Tim Burton films, he needs a break!
P.s. I don't care about Johnny and Helena now, I care about visionary style. I rather same actors from Oz the great and powerful remake except some characters would be different except Oz.
+Frank Conti
Yes!!!! Starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter and lots of CGI!!!!!!!
Jacob Moeller perhaps maybe i'll put some characters on deviantart.
In the MGM movie, (maybe the Baum books too, it's been a few years since I read the books) Oz and Kansas are mirror-image counterparts, I consider the Oz of Wicked and Baum's Oz to be mirror-image counterparts. Both can exist seperatly in peace, wothout making one any more or less real or reasonable then the other. I love Elphie of one but I hate the Wicked Witch of the West of another. Oh, and I strongly dislike Miss Almira Gulch, the other-counterpart. :-)
Taken from the "DISNEYLAND" Show's Fourth Anniversary episode.