It may also be difficult to find a family with young kids who aren’t familiar with the award-winning Adora doll company, known for their original, irresistible “work-of-heart” dolls that bring joy to boys and girls around the world. Who can resist the story, music, and characters that have become American movie classics? Truth is, it would likely be difficult to find a family that doesn’t regularly watch the film together. And orchestrations which cleverly appropriated very tasty new ideas in composition (polymodalism, non-standard phrasings, etc.) didn't hurt, either! Geez, this movie is such a little universe.I'd better stop here.If you have young children, it’s a safe bet your family has watched The Wizard of Oz a time or two. Oh: And having Harold Arlen write the music was good luck indeed. But in the end, something like narrative love won out and that's the important thing. And I'm not a pollyanna about this: I'm sure the underlying reality behind its making is rife with horror stories of expert disagreement, rewrites, discarding, jerryrigging, and the rest of it. People who look back with disdain on the low-tech chintz of old movies can see in TWoO the magic ingredient narrative solidity. This movie is a powerful example of how a good story overcomes limited means in other areas. I will mention a few more things about how I now see this movie as a "growed up" (I'm almost 50): It's interesting how you can see the production values of the time the lot sets and special effects and so forth. I was just very touching to see this movie again, at this phase in my life. I found myself most touched in scenes where the Scarecrow was showing wisdom, the Tin Man feeling deeply (".when I think of Dorothy in that awful place."), and the Lion.well, maybe accomplishing this effect was harder in his case.what *is* true courage? Anyway, if you're reading this here, you must be a movie weenie, and you've no doubt already seen the movie, so I'm not going to recite the usual "go see this movie" mantra. That's a powerful statement for many of us. I guess the part that "gets" me about the movie is how the writers made it pretty plain that the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion really already had what they thought they were missing that their respective problems were in misapprehending their own complete natures. There was a little art house in Lansing Michigan USA that ran it back then, on the popular premise that there's nothing like TWoO on "the big screen." That's the last time I'd seen it, 'til today. I just saw it again, DVD, for the first time in-gosh!-20 years. People talk about The Wizard of Oz as a backdrop to their lives and how true that is. Network airings in the 1990s were uncut and not time-compressed the film aired in a 2-hour, 10-minute time period. CBS, which had shown the uncut version of the film in 1956, and again from the films first telecast until 1968, finally started to show it uncut again beginning in 1985, by time-compressing it. By the 1980s, the other excised shots included: the film's dedication in the opening credits, continuity shots of Dorothy and Toto running from the farm, establishing shots of the cyclone, the aforementioned tracking sequence in Munchkin Land, the establishing shot of the poppy field, and tiny bits and pieces of the trip to the Wicked Witch's castle. Also according to Fricke, more wholesale cutting of the film took place when CBS regained the TV rights in 1975. According to film historian John Fricke, these cuts started with solely a long tracking shot of Munchkin Land after Dorothy arrives there. As the amount of commercial time on network television gradually increased, more scenes were cut. From 1968 to 1984, on NBC-TV and CBS-TV airings of the film, the film was edited to sell more commercial time.
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