I was curious after reading about this version of Oz, checked to see if youtube had it, and sure enough, yup. That place has everything.
So here it is, enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObVWrLEJJZo
OOh! yay, thanks for the link.
shareSuperb that was. A real treat for the kids to enjoy I reckon.
shareAlas, it is no more. According to YouTube, it was removed for TOS violations.
shareThe person who put it up should have removed the soundtrack... But I've seen it on YouTube other times...
In two parts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoRKha4fAjM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYtXptObCwY
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jadarchives just saw it i thought it cute and clever film, check out the magic cloak of oz that movie was imaginative cute and clever film also!
shareOh, I've seen it. I have most of the Oz movies that have been ever produced on DVD.
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It's included in the 70th aniversary Edition. I just saw it, is Interesting although obviously too primitive.
It's back up there. I found it by searching for the title and the year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoRKha4fAjM (part 1, then click for part 2 when it's done). For most of the movie the music from the play is used (and used in the right places). I have the 2 disc CD "The Wizard of Oz" http://www.hungrytigerpress.com/audio/1903_cd.shtml from the time period with a synopsis of the play. The set was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Historical Album.
I've also seen it on the Treasures DVD set. Wish I could afford to own it!
It's absolutely delightful and having listened to the CDs of the music, my experience was enhanced. I'm so glad they used the music with the film.
I kind of wish David Montgomery and Fred Stone would have recreated their roles of the Tin Man and the Scarecrow for this movie. They did make one short (very short--9 seconds, maybe all that's left from a longer short) called "Dancing Boxing Match" (1907) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0321892/ It's on YouTube as well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j835Tj-_MDg .
David Montgomery died in 1917 following surgery. Fred Stone went on to a movie career that included playing Katherine Hepburn's father in "Alice Adams".
I was thinking about what was said of cramming the play into 13 minutes but maybe after you take out the subplots and musical performances, 13 minutes might be all you're left with! j/k I've watched a 10 minute silent version of "A Christmas Carol" that was quite good and also hit all the major plot points of the story.
Sometimes I wonder about these two and three hour (and longer) movies, that if you boiled them down to their basic elements, would have about enough story for 10 or 15 minutes. Those silent film makers may have been onto something!
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Fred Allen
Many movies were 1-reel films - often lasting 10-12 minutes at the time. Some of the challenges of early film making were 1) making a film that lasted longer than 1 reel, and 2) projecting a film that had more than 1 reel. In the Forgotten FIlms of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle is an early 2-reel comedy that includes a notice that there's about a 1 minute intermission because the projector needs to change reels. It wasn't much later before the movie industry figured out both of these challenges.
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