FIRST TIME WATCHING THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) Movie Reaction

THE WIZARD OF OZ MOVIE REACTION! Today I'll be watching a film I have never seen before Wizard of Oz released in 1939 for the first time. Watch the ENTIRE Movie with me? Check out: / timotheereacts
When a tornado rips through Kansas, Dorothy (Judy Garland) and her dog, Toto, are whisked away in their house to the magical land of Oz. They follow the Yellow Brick Road toward the Emerald City to meet the Wizard, and en route they meet a Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) that needs a brain, a Tin Man (Jack Haley) missing a heart, and a Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr) who wants courage. The wizard asks the group to bring him the broom of the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) to earn his help.
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[@lorsteve7309]

May you React the Many adventures of Winnie the Pooh Please

[@fantasy-writer-v5z]

Planning on reacting to Helluva Boss because if you enjoyed Hazbin Hotel your going to have fun with HB Or what about The Owl House or Amphibia because of you liked Gravity Falls you’ll love these two

[@jessetorres8738]

Trivia note: The Wizard himself in the book & his appearance in the movie is based off of 25th President William McKinley (although he was from Ohio & not Kansas).

[@katiem9644]

The Graduate, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, I would consider them classics.

[@theatergeek82]

You should watch 7 brides for 7 brothers

[@BryanMcdonough-gl9hm]

Rest In Peace to the entire cast and crew of Wizard of Oz

[@nathancruz9172]

Yep

[@galandirofrivendell4740]

I don't think many reactors understand or appreciate the impact this film had on us growing up in the 1950s and '60s. The Wizard of Oz aired once a year on television, and its broadcasts were heavily advertised such that watching it was an event comparable to watching the Super Bowl today. This is genuine example of true Americana much beloved by everyone who has seen it.

[@stephenpmurphy591]

It aired in February my brothers and I counted the days then at school everyone talked about for a week or two. My favorite song as a kid the Lions if I was King of the forest!

[@hmfrias]

I remember. I would always wait patiently year after year to see it again. When it was released on VHS, I couldn’t believe I could see it any time I chose

[@KKowalski1022]

I remember watching it once a year on TV in the late 80s and early 90s. It didn’t matter that we owned the VHS. That one night a year was always epic!

[@sketchnotes2246]

Ah such a classic! Here's a fun fact: Margaret Hamilton (the actress who played the witch) was actually a kindergarten teacher irl. After the film came out, she became concerned that her performance as the witch was scaring a lot of children. So, she eventually made an appearance on an episode of "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood," where she wore the costume without the makeup and explained that acting is a lot like "playing pretend." So sweet!

[@j.woodbury412]

I still watch that episode on You Tube.

[@stephanniemorin]

She also appeared on Sesame Street, but the episode was pulled due to parent complaints. It was lost media until relatively recently.

[@shaungerald23]

@@stephanniemorin Why did they complain?

[@stephanniemorin]

@shaungerald23 Beats me. They claimed it was "too scary" for their children, and my Jersey butt is sitting over here like 🧍🏻‍♀️. We have the Jersey Devil and bumper to bumper traffic on 287, we, at least, can handle this.

[@blueeyedbehr]

@@shaungerald23 it was deemed "too scary" for the very young, like 4 to 7 year olds. she wasn't playing herself, but a "wicked old witch", yet toned down for sesame street, but apparently, not toned down enough.

[@lawrencespinnenweber177]

You asked for some facts about this movie? Judy Garland was 16 years old. She wore a corset to help keep her figure from showing so that she would look younger. When the Witch disappeared in Munchkinland, yes, she dropped through a trap door through smoke and real fire. The technicians let the fire out too soon and the actress, Margaret Hamilton, had her hand badly burned. The Horse of a Different Color was created by rubbing Jell-O gelatin powder into the horse's fur. The Munchkins and the Winged Monkeys were played by little people -- they called them midgets then, but dwarves is the correct term today. Yes, that was an animal you saw in the forest near the Tin Man's house. They borrowed cranes and other birds from the Los Angeles Zoo to use as set decoration and to set the fantasy atmosphere. I could go on, but I will stop now.

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

Dwarfs and midgets, then and now, are not the same thing. Dwarfs are small of stature AND have disproportionate body parts relative to a normal person. Midgets are simply small people with normally proportioned bodies. I believe most if not all of the Munchkins are midgets, rather than dwarfs. The group is actually credited as "Singer's Midgets" in the film's opening titles.

[@SobiTheRobot]

*Dwarfs. Dwarves are the fantasy race thought up by Tolkein.

[@stephanniemorin]

I remember this movie playing specifically around Thanksgiving, before all the Christmas and holiday movies started airing. I'm guessing it was a sort of "in-between" kind of movie. Fun fact: Margaret Hamilton, the one who played the Wicked Witch of the West, was a kindergarten teacher, and appeared on Sesame Street once. Sadly, the episode was pulled because the parents complained that it was too scary, and she spent the rest of her life trying to explain to the kids that she wasn't like the witch IRL, even going on Mister Roger's! Thankfully, the episode of Sesame Street where she appeared in was found. Also, fun fact: this was my fourth grade play; I was Dorothy number 5!

[@Gen-ZChristian]

This is such a great and nostalgic movie when I was younger, Can’t wait to see what you think of it!

[@t.o.toonstubetwo.4138]

23:35 fun fact in the book he looked like a real lion.

[@WJC981]

the ghostly singer we briefly hear during the Tin Man's number is Andriana Caseloti aka the voice of Disney's Snow White.

[@hmfrias]

When Margaret Hamilton /WWW exited Oz, the trap door scene was done in one take. The producers wanted another take, and Margaret Hamilton was caught on fire and hospitalized so production came to a halt. When Margaret returned she asked for a double to film the special effects scenes

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Watching ‘The Wizard of Oz’ during Pride Month? Now that’s genius.

[@artsysabs]

What’s the correlation? 🤔

[@PokhrajRoy.]

@@artsysabs If you HAVE to ask that question. But anyway, it’s because Judy Garland has been such an icon. ‘Over The Rainbow’ is an awesome song as well

[@francescar9845]

Margaret Hamilton who played the Wicked Witch of the West reprised her role on “Sesame Street” back in the 70s. Unfortunately, a lot of parents complained to the TV network about her appearance scaring their children (they could have simply chose to not watch it) and it never aired again. Well two years ago, that lost episode got pulled from the vault and it’s available to watch on social media. It’s a very interesting watch and worth checking out.

[@johnnehrich9601]

E pluribus unum, Latin meaning "out of many, one" was the official motto of the US until1956, when it was changed to its current one, "In God We Trust," a reaction to godless communism which was on most people's minds during that decade. Most people today don't get it, but when the movie came out, pretty much all high school students had trigonometry drilled in to them. They would have picked up on the joke that when the scarecrow gets his brain, he rattles off something that sounds profound but was a gibberish version of the pythagoras theorem. Yes, there were four witches in the book. Dorothy first meets the (unnamed) Witch of the North. After the Wizard float away, the four have to get to the Witch of the South, Glinda. The movie condensed things. Also, in the book, Oz being a real place, there was no foretelling with characters which show up in Oz. In the book, Dorothy lives with her aunt and uncle only and gets whisked off to Oz only a few sentences in the book. (Baum in the 1890's had at one time worked as an editor of a small Midwestern newspaper. He heard that one time a tornado picked up a house and deposited it about a mile away, with minimum damage.) As someone said, this story is the classic "chick flick," where two women fight to the death over a pair of shoes!

[@DeeNeighbour]

The snow was asbestos

[@AlexOmar-q9n]

no it was Gypsum

[@SeyaDiakite7]

Here's some facts about the sad movie production that wonderful movie had. Judy Garland (dorothy's actress) was only 17 when she played dorothy. But as she grew up with Hollywood, they drugged her alot. Even In the wizard of oz she was forced on a strict diet and another drug for concentration. so much that she had a depressing adulthood as an alcoholic. She died in 1969. Sadly.... The song somewhere over the rainbow was almost cut from the film. Lucky it stayed and it became a american national treasure. For the tornado, they made it with a 35-foot-long muslin stocking that they wrapped around chicken wire to give it a conical appearance. With dust and smoke blown all over the place. Also, Margaret Hamilton, the wicked witch, was burned in 3rd degree on her face and hand when she teleported with the red smoke in munchkins land. Buddy ebsen was almost the tin man but almost died because he was allergic to the makeup, poisoned with aluminum in it. So Jack Haley took his place. The snow in the poppy field was asbestos. The lion costume was made with real lion fur. They almost wanted leon the lion from the MGM studios logo to play the lion but it would be so damn dangerous to have a actual lion on set. The scarecrow's mask scarred his face for a year The witch's makeup was toxic because it was copper. So it was hard to come off The wicked witch had a stunt double for one scene because she never wanted to deal with fire again. Her stunt was named Betty danko for one scene where she writes "SURRENDER DOROTHY" on the sky with smoke while flying on her broom. But the smoking pipe she was in exploded and danko was injured. But she recovered. One piano wire used to make flying monkeys fly broke off and one monkey actor fell down and injured himself One actor of the witch's guards accidentally stepped on Terry (toto the dog)'s paw, breaking it by accident. Behr lart's lion costume made dorothy's actress Judy Garland laugh non-stop. So the director Victor Fleming took her aside and slapped her so she can focus. But he felt so bad for what he did and even asked to be punched in the face. But Judy forgave him and she kissed his nose. Everyone in the movie in kansas has counterparts in oz Terry (Toto actress, yup she was a female and she had a male role.) Was the most well paid in the whole cast. Margaret Hamilton was the nicest on set according to Judy Garland. So it was hard for her to act threatening towards her. Dorothy was almost blonde when Richard Thorpe was originally the movie producer, but it later became victor Fleming, who made it more like the movie we know today, but he left because he had to directs the movie Gone with the wind.

[@nicolasribeirodossantos6082]

she died when Leo was already showing up on MGM movies.

[@johnnehrich9601]

Dorothy in the book (and the Disney movie, Return to Oz) was supposed to be 8-10. Dorothy was playing her as 14 - best they could do. The crow that steals the piece of straw off the scarecrow was Jimmy the Raven. He was very smart and appeared in a number of movies at the time, including the 1946 movie, It's A Wonderful Life. The voice that sings "Romeo, wherefore art thou," was song by the woman whose voice was used for Disney's 1937 Snow White. Disney managed to keep her from doing other roles as he wanted her to always be Snow White, be he relented for this one line in Oz. Movie cameras at the time were enormous and technicolor ones even more so. Technicolor, because it is exposing four films, one for each color (black, magenta, yellow, and cyan) required four times the light. Every arc light that MGM could round up was used, and the studio was sweltering.

[@MegaWicked89]

Well not only was Judy Garland forced on a strict diet and put on a drug regimen, but because she was only 16 years old, her figure was beginning to develop. So during the filming of "The Wizard of Oz", her breasts were taped flat and she also wore a special corset to flatten out her curves!

[@marezesim8119]

everyone should see this movie.. it is a timeless classic for a good reason.. some of the acting and costume work is spectacular but sadly the filming restrictions were low level ... love the way you edit and so glad you show subtitles on the film ... notice in Oz whenever they show her house it is still sepia colored ... not 100% sure but I think this predates Dr Seuss.. the trap door was real and the actress actually got burned doing the stunt ... scarecrows line about people without brains do a lot of talking is my favorite

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

Dr. Seuss published his first children's book, AND TO THINK THAT I SAW IT ON MULBERRY STREET in 1937, but the vast majority of his works were published after World War II (starting in 1950). Dr. Seuss made a fascinating live-action movie himself, however, called THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T (1953).

[@michaelrosenblum4170]

From Kansas, so of course I've been to the Oz museum in Wamego. Boss I have, their ancestor was William Jennings Bryan, the politician who was the basis for the cowardly lion. Great reaction

[@thomasbradley4505]

Fun connection: my uncle was a reporter in the 60s and 70s. He wrote for a while for the Washington Post, and he interviewed Billie Burke, who played Glinda

[@SalGomezVillanueva-ex4ot]

Check out the sequel made by Disney called Return to Oz (1985) really good and scary sequel 😊

[@hanschristianbrando5588]

What that must be like, watching this movie for the first time as an adult.

[@KingBearmane]

30:31 I want that hat

[@nickmanzo8459]

E Pluribus Unum is Latin, it means “Out of Many, One.” It is on the United States seal

[@teenflash19]

52:06 Her grand daughter created the TVA

[@FrickingKaos]

I've never been so early to a video. this movie is one of my childhood favorites, it's such a classic

[@moneylover318]

The Scarecrow is actually from Massachusetts.The same state i'm from

[@dcemerald70]

Thank you for this reaction! The Wizard of Oz was the first musical I was in, and I had the pleasure to play Professor Marvel and the Wizard himself. Years later, I did the musical again with my nephew; I was the Emerald City Guard, and he was a Munchkin. If you want to know about the origin of The Wicked Witches, Glinda, and the Wizard, I recommend you check out the musical Wicked. The first part of the musical film adaption will be out this Thanksgiving and the second part next year. Besides the Return to Oz, I highly recommend these other Oz films: Oz the Great and Powerful, The Wiz, Dorthy and the Witches of Oz, Muppets Wizard of Oz, Legend of Oz: Dorothy’s Return, Tom and Jerry’s Wizard of Oz, Tom and Jerry’s Return to Oz, and Tin Man. 👧🏼🐺🧠❤️✊🫧🧹🌈

[@stsolomon618]

Classic, this film was nominated for best picture.

[@matityaloran9157]

29:50, people say that about Shakespeare but it’s not actually true

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

Everyone knows that the complete works of Shakespeare were written by 500 monkeys hitting keys at random on 500 typewriters.

[@charleswtriplett]

HOW COULD you skip the song "Over The Rainbow" ???

[@laurelllewis3437]

I love this movie so much 💗

[@t.o.toonstubetwo.4138]

Also in the book the mean neighbor, the three farmhands and professor marvel were not in the book at all.

[@BatmanFan76]

I’m pretty sure there’s not a single person on this planet that doesn’t know this movie. Ever since this movie’s release, there has been many remasters, re-releases, and too many adaptations and parodies to count. Even though everyone keeps trying to replicate this magic, it’s pretty much official no one could ever top this delightful masterpiece.

[@WilliamLucas-hy8mx]

I know it from the movie Girl, Interrupted

[@johnnehrich9601]

I have seen and enjoyed a number of reactors to this movie, who were seeing it for the first time.

[@zachariousmccool5768]

Theres always going to be someone who hasn't seen it but it definetly is the widest reaching film.....probably ever. Its one of the very few films that I feel should be required to see if you even like movies a little bit. It's impact on the film industry and society as a whole cannot be unstated. It will live on probably forever since its always being reintroduced to newer generations, parents showing it to their kids etc. The epitome of "Timeless Classic" lol Its getting close to 100 years old now which is wild to think about.

[@a.g.demada5263]

I read three versions of the book but I saw the movie only a few years ago

[@youngmaster7405]

im pretty sure its the most well known movie of all time. makes sense since it revolutionized effects and cinema back then.

[@MohamadNadi]

The fact that this move is 85 years old and it still holds up is a testament to how great it is

[@krnut_82]

About the horse, NO they did NOT put paint on it. They colored it with Jell-O powder. That way it wasn't toxic for the horse. Lemon, cherry, and grape flavors.

[@ronweber1402]

They had a beast of a time getting shots because the horse kept licking it off, hahahaha.

[@jeffbassin630]

This film truly stands the test of time. Judy Garland was a perfect Dorothy. Her singing is and was throughout her career iconic. The special effects used were way ahead of it's time! "The Wizard of Oz" remains a classic!

[@j.woodbury412]

It's interesting that the scarecrow, who didn't have a brain, was the one who came up with the smartest ideas, the tin man, who didn't have a heart, was the one who showed the most sensitivity and was the one who cried when Dorothy was locked up in the castle, and the cowardly lion, who didn't have courage, didn't turn away from danger when he had to face it.

[@majkus]

Yep, this is built into the book. Remembering that the usual expected method of consumption was the parents reading a chapter each night to the kiddies (as the ad copy of the time would call them), it is likely that few kids missed this point.

[@carriefischer9552]

MY BUDDY KATIE IS A FAN THAT MOVIE, IN THAT WIZARD OF OZ AND MY BUDDY KATIE HAS TATOO OF THE EMERALD CITY ON HER RIGHT ANKLE THERE SOME GOOD SCENES AND SOME BAD SCENES AND MY SISTER barb AND I REPEAT MY SISTER WILL NOT WATCH THAT MOVIE OTHER WISE MY SISTER GETS BAD DREAMS

[@TedLittle-yp7uj]

But,, as soon as the scarecrow gets his diploma, he misquotes the Pythagorean Theorem. So much for higher education.

[@ammaleslie509]

Yes, it's interesting... It's the whole point of the story!

[@MsAppassionata]

@@carriefischer9552 😂😂😂 Why do you capitalize everything but your sister’s name?

[@candicelitrenta8890]

When the Witch went down in the trap door with the red smoke, the actress actually got burned from the flame

[@johnnehrich9601]

Yes, but not on the take they actually used in the movie. The stage hands pulled her off the hatch and began dabbing her skin with rubbing alcohol as her makeup included copper, which was poisonous. They didn't want it to touch her exposed skin. And her double was badly burned on a take of the witch on her broom skywriting. In the same vein, the first actor to play the tin woodsman, was covered in aluminum powder. He breathed in the powder and almost died. His replacement, the one we see, was made metallic by aluminum powder mixed into something like cold cream. And the "snow" was asbestos.

[@RabbitsFunWorld]

@@johnnehrich9601that’s a big yikes all around. 😮😢

[@stephenr3910]

​​​The original Tin Man was Buddy Ebsen of "The Beverly Hillbillies".​@@johnnehrich9601

[@RYMAN1321]

@@johnnehrich9601Geez, I guess safety wasn’t much of a concern back then was it?

[@llanitedave]

​@RB01.10 Organic chemistry wasn't well known at the time. The health effects of asbestos and aluminum powder hadn't yet become understood. As late as the 1970s there were reputable scientists arguing that *most* forms of asbestos were harmless.

[@Kevmaster2000]

As far as I’m concerned this is THE greatest film ever made! It’s the most influential, quoted, referenced, well known, watched throughout generations, perfect movie ever!

[@nudgificator]

There were witches for every direction in the original novel. The Witch of the North is encountered first right after the house lands, and Glinda is the Witch of the South and only appears right at the end to get Dorothy home after the balloon flies away without her. Somewhere along the line it was decided that introducing a new witch right at the end was unnecessary, so the two were conflated into the one here. Also, something I always like to mention on reactions to this (call it my 'Viggo's toe'!) - the voice that sings 'wherefore art thou Romeo?' is the voice of Disney's Snow White, Adriana Caselotti.

[@majkus]

And generations ever since, hearing the line sung as 'wherefore art thou, Romeo' (with a comma), mis-learned that 'wherefore' meant 'where' and not 'why'. Occasionally you will see a high school or community production in which the line is sung correctly.

[@skepticcritic4995]

15:09 That fire was real, Margaret Hamilton who played Ms. Gulch and the Wicked Witch while recording this scene, she entered the trapdoor too late, she got hit with a 2nd degree burn on her face, and a 3rd degree burn on her hand from the fiery exit. Hamilton was willing to return to the film after recovering under the condition that NO more fire effects were used for the witch's scenes. That's why you see more red smoke than fire in the later scenes

[@AliSakurai]

Despite the terrible stories of what Judy went through behind the scenes, she never regretted playing dorothy, and Over The Rainbow was her signature song. Margaret Hamilton, who portrayed the wicked witch of the west, was known for being extremely kind in real life, and she adored Judy like a daughter. She was more of a mother to Judy than her stage mom from hell ever was. I truly hope Judy found what was over the rainbow the day she died.

[@Venejan]

There's a snippet of video from some anniversary event made long after the movie came out where Ray Bolger (Scarecrow) expresses his appreciation for the movie because it gave him and his fellow actors a kind of immortality. And he was right, because if this film had never been made, I doubt any of these actors aside from Judy Garland would be remembered today. And even though Garland had a fantastic career, Oz remains her most beloved film and Over the Rainbow remains her most iconic song performance.

[@_sintrell]

What I like most in the beginning of the movie…is that the men give us keywords to give us the idea on who is which character

[@MegaWicked89]

In a TV interview later in her career, Judy Garland recalled whenever she would do the dance on the Yellow Brick Road with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion, she initially struggled to keep up with them, and because they were dancing with their arms linked together it looked like she was shut out. So the director, Victor Fleming, yelled "Hold it! You three dirty hams! Let that little girl in there!"

[@j.woodbury412]

Sad trivia: Most of the actors who played the munchkins were German and Jewish, who escaped Germany to escape the Nazis. More trivia: Judy Garland had a hard time pretending to be afraid of Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch because Hamilton was so nice to Garland in real life. Margaret Hamilton said the hardest scene for her was when Mrs. Gulch threatened to have Toto destroyed because she was such a big animal lover in real life.

[@FantasticBabblings]

In the early 1980s I attended a fundraiser in New York at the Public Theater for PEN, the international writers' organization. The theme was banned books and several celebrities (Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Morgan Freeman...) read from books that have been banned around the world. At the very end Margaret Hamilton (The Wicked Witch of the West) read from The Wizard of Oz. There wasn't a dry eye in the house.

[@garylee3685]

He "manipulated the kid" to have her stop running away.

[@fynnthefox9078]

Exactly, manipulation... But for a good cause.

[@gregschultz8639]

In the original book, the Land of Oz is a real place far far away. It's not specified where, but when Dorothy uses the slippers, she lands on a field several yards away from her home and she goes running to Auntie Em and Uncle Henry. They made the concept a dream sequence for this film.

[@RabbitsFunWorld]

Good to know.

[@majkus]

"Silver Shoes" in the book, not 'slippers'. Since we're being book-faithful here… :)

[@libertyresearch-iu4fy]

About the only thing I remember from the book was there was a rapid river to cross instead of the poppies.

[@ScooterBond1970]

@@libertyresearch-iu4fy also that the Emerald City was not actually emerald; everyone had to wear green-tinted glasses ostensibly to reduce the bright green glare, but it was really so everything would look green thru the green lenses.

[@vicentehizon6202]

​@libertyresearch-iu4fy Also, the Land of Oz was more environmentally dangerous. The group had to also outrun a pair of Kalidahs (monstrous beasts with a bear's body and a tiger's head). When the group crossed a big gorge, the Tin Man used his axe to sever the bridge, making the Kalidahs fall down the gorge, where they were impaled by the jagged rocks below.

[@morganghostbusters-egonfan]

11:45 “Only bad witches are ugly.” Literally the only quote I can think of when watching The Witches, the Anjelica Houston version, not the Robert zemeckis one. This quote was literal in that movie.

[@ericjanssen394]

And yet, Glinda still asks whether Dorothy is a bad witch. 😉

[@gmunden1]

L. Frank Baum wrote "The Wizard of Oz" in 1900. It started as a series of books before adapted for film in 1939. Unrelated stories - Lewis Carroll wrote "Alice in Wonderland " in 1865, followed by " Through the Looking Glass," 1871. The story was conceived in 1862 when Carroll joined a friend on the river in Oxford with (Henry Liddell's three children, one named Alice). The first film adaptation was in 1903,then again in Hollywood 1933, followed by the animated Disney version in 1951.

[@j.woodbury412]

Frank Morgan played the wizard, as well as Professor Marvel. the gatekeeper, the driver of the horse of a different color and the wizard's guard.

[@JUMPYCOOL]

How does someone go their whole life without seeing The Wizard Of Oz at least once?

[@johnnehrich9601]

I thought the same but at the same time, I envy the joy (I hope) of experiencing for the first time. And I'm GLAD he held off until now so he could share the experience with us.

[@fantasy-writer-v5z]

I know it’s beyond impressive

[@TimotheeReacts]

Mention it in the intro! Only have seen parts of it, I remember they played it in school for a period, only played the first 40mins and I don't remember much. This movie is also 85 years old! 37 years before MY PARENTS where born. Also because of the language difference, french being my main language, did not grow up with as many movies in english, very iconic movie but maybe not in another languages society plus the 80 years.

[@nathancruz9172]

I saw the wizard of oz.

[@majkus]

But he _didn't_ go his whole life without seeing it! He's still alive, you know…

[@frankiebowie6174]

My secret, favorite moment of this film that I’ve watched dozens of times is Judy blowing a kiss to the Lullaby League at 13:32. She must’ve seen herself and her sisters at that age, performing as the Gumm Sisters.

[@majkus]

In the book, the Wizard's gifts to the travelers were similarly symbolic and allowed their owners to believe the Wizard had helped them. The Scarecrow's head was mostly filled with a mixture of bran and pins and needles ("they show that he is sharp"), the Tin Woodman received a red silk heart stuffed with sawdust that was soldered into his chest, and the Lion drinks a bottle of a liquid - remembering that 'liquid courage' is a term for alcoholic drink. The film version, though not literally faithful, is perfect and has its own charm. Oz, left to himself, smiled to think of his success in giving the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman and the Lion exactly what they thought they wanted. “How can I help being a humbug,” he said, “when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can’t be done? It was easy to make the Scarecrow and the Lion and the Woodman happy, because they imagined I could do anything. But it will take more than imagination to carry Dorothy back to Kansas, and I’m sure I don’t know how it can be done.”

[@mollylea2643]

The little insect the Witch mentions at 38:45 is the Jitterbug, the basis for an eponymous number that was filmed, then left on the cutting room for the finished film. Only still images and maybe a few seconds of audio now exist.

[@majkus]

The complete audio exists, happily, and most high school and community productions nowadays do include The Jitterbug, which gives the whole company a chance to show off their retro dance steps.

[@ImpossibleCaseEdits]

"The Jitterbug" sequence cost a fortune to film only for it to be cut. It's unlikely, but I wish the footage would turn up one day.

[@thomasbradley4505]

@@ImpossibleCaseEditsthere is partial footage and the entire audio. In one of the early video releases in the 80s, one of the bonus features was the restored number with the audio, partial video, and still shots

[@cjg8763]

I believe this number included vocals from the original Tin Man before being affected by his poisonous makeup and nearly dying. IDK if this is why it was cut, or a possible one of a number of reasons why.

[@cjg8763]

@@ImpossibleCaseEdits I swear I've seen the entire scene somewhere before, if not the whole thing at least a little bit of it.

[@shannonmcelroy8454]

4:50 To answer your question, Alice in Wonderland came first in 1865 as a book by Lewis Carroll. He was one of the first children's authors who wanted to entertain as well as educate children so they didn't feel lectured to and could have a fun time reading. It was Alice in Wonderland that blew open the door for fun children's fiction and allowed The Wizard of Oz to be published. Also, everyone remembers the "I'll get you my pretty, and your little dog too!", but "Well my little pretty, I can cause accidents too!" Is just as iconic.😊

[@llanitedave]

A lot of the perceived similarities to Alice in Wonderland are due to changes made to the story by the movie producers.

[@jonb7797]

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

[@AlexOmar-q9n]

Alice in Wonderland was written in 1865 and The Wizard of Oz was written in 1900 so it may have borrowed the idea of a fairytale like land with characters that resemble "real" people from the "real" land

[@courtneywallace871]

Yes, the song was written for the movie. A shame you didn’t react to it. They actually used flavored Jell-O powder to color the horse. And Frank Morgan plays 5 characters in the movie including The Wizard, Professor Marvel, The doorman, the cabbie and the final guard.

[@actualkarenokboomer3158]

It is 1939 and of course some of it is painted. You do not get to make fun of what was breakthrough in 1939. The actress playing the witch was actually burned in one of the fire scenes. I had never noticed the big bird until I saw the movie in IMAX and it is a live emu.

[@leehallam9365]

Bert Larh, the lion, was a popular comic and comedy singer. If you watch clips of him before he did this, you realise how much of his own act and mannerisms were developed into his wonderful performance.

[@beckystar3327]

You likely figured this out, I know it took me a while, but all the people Dorothy met in Oz were the people she knew at the farmhouse in Kansas. Most obviously the woman at the start was the Wicked Witch. The scarecrow was the farmhand named Hunk, who at the start said "If you have brains why don't you use them?" The tinman was the farmhand named Hickory. And the lion was the farmhand named Zeke, who at the start said to "have a little courage" to deal with the woman. And the professor Marvel was the Wizard funnily enough.

[@stephanniemorin]

Toto is a Cairn Terrier, native to the Scottish Highlands. He (technically, she, as the actor, is a girl dog) certainly has that Highlander spirit throughout Dorothy's adventure!

[@beautifulbliss5883]

What I appreciate about older stories of another world stories like Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz, Narnia, classic Disney can count, they all had a life they want to escape from because their life is bad. They are all around the time of WW2. When the studios made them, they two wanted the audience to escape reality for an hour, too, so they had to commit to the vision of the sets or the animation. That being said what happened behind the scenes is actually crazy and would never go through today.

[@thomasbradley4505]

When Dorothy opens the door in Oz, while still inside Judy’s double was wearing a dress in sepia tones, and the door was painted to match the sepia tones. Once it’s opened, Judy steps in wearing the color costume and steps onto the colored set.

[@ladyvenusdragon]

I don't know if many noticed but how funny is it that Scarecrow was ready to face the Witch with a GUN??? XD

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

Some people without brains have an awful lot of guns.

[@kaijukid1443]

It’s a little hard for me to think of this movie without the many f-ed up behind the scenes facts coming to mind.

[@fynnthefox9078]

We need a movie about the living nightmare that is the bts of Thr Wizard of Oz.

[@kaijukid1443]

@@fynnthefox9078 Kinda shocked that doesn’t exist, already

[@TheHulk2008]

This movie has the greatest transition in cinematic history along with 2001 and Lawrence of Arabia.

[@majkus]

"Brother Bear" has a moment when the aspect ratio changes from 4:3 to 16:9 and the color palette becomes more vivid. In movie theatres, curtains actually opened wider for the wider image at that point. I'm sure that the Disney people were thinking of this film when they did that.

[@rhudoc3745]

"...some people with no brains do an awful lot of talking..."

[@myfootballjesus]

yes it was REAL fire, the actress was burned , it happened back then

[@bethking7348]

Mad Tv did several hilarious parodies on this movie 😂😂. The original movie, they used a nylon stocking to make the tornado. This was a once a year family gathering to watch. Great memories ❤

[@k_salter]

Those flying monkeys were my introduction to fear and terror when I was about 5 or 6. They scared me sooooo much. This used to be on every Wednesday night before Thanksgiving for years; kept us kids out of mom's way of precooking for turkey day. I think of ribbon candy and wafer mints when I see this now.

[@jeandoten1510]

Yup, I was also terrified by the flying monkeys. The place where the Wicked Witch of the East's feet roll up under the fallen house also gave me nightmares.

[@Venejan]

The flying monkeys are terrifying at any age. The fairly simple effect of the tornado still chills my blood today!! I've never seen any CGI match it.

[@SobiTheRobot]

The monkeys are STILL terrifying. The way they hoot and holler as they close in, then they just start swarming the group en masse.

[@dionysiacosmos]

Private citizens cannot act as agents of law enforcement. So unless the Sheriff swore Mrs Gulch into his office as a deputy, she can be criminally charged with impersonating an officer of the law. If they had known this, the Gayle family could have pointed this out, and probably have talked her into both of them dropping the charges. She's just a proto-Karen. In the movie it's all a dream, but the books don't erase Dorothy's accomplishments.

[@ScooterBond1970]

Makes me wonder if she really did have a Sheriff's order in the first place. If not, she's potentially in even bigger trouble... and that much more a proto-Karen. (LOL, I never made that connection but you're so right! 🤣)

[@Venejan]

Well, Aunt Em says that Miss Gulch owns the whole county, so she presumably owns the sheriff too, no matter what the law says. We can only hope the tornado finished her off, which is implied but never actually stated in the movie.

[@JohnRandomness105]

14:20 The book had four witches, one for each direction. The movie combined the two good witches into the Witch of the North. 15:10 Yes, that was a trap door and platform, and yes, that was a dangerous special effect. As I understand it, this was the first take (imperfect, because the smoke begins before the witch is there) and the second take burned Margaret Hamilton. 21:10 "Wherefore art thou, Romeo?" was voiced by the voice actress of Snow White. (As usual, it was said wrong.) 31:20 "That's a horse of a different color!" 39:30 I read that the winged monkeys were West Point cadets in costume. Not sure, though. 41:40 That last mile, just over the mountain. That background music as Dorothy is rescued is "A Night on Bald Mountain". 44:40 Maybe the Wicked Witch is a Fire Elemental, and water her weakness. 48:20 "E Pluribus Unum" something like, "Out of many, one". The (unofficial?) motto of the USA before the McCarthyist "In God We Trust". I read the book "Wicked" a couple years after it was published, and it was a rather grizzly take on the Land of Oz. A couple years later, I started seeing billboards billing "Wicked" as a musical, with a picture of the green WWotW. I kept thinking, no way could they ever make a Broadway Musical of that book. But sure enough... a Lighter and Softer, Pragmatic Adaptation, highly approved by the author and very popular with teen and preteen girls. At a book signing, the author had to say that getting the book for a 12yo girl would be child abuse.

[@paulybarr]

In answer to your question about " what's shot on location and what is a a painting?' the answer is that the entire movie was shot in the MGM studios ( now Sony) in Los Angeles. The fabulous panoramas of Kansas are as much a product of the brilliant scenic designers as the gorgeous fantasy backdrops in the Oz section that makes up the rest of the movie. And, yes, the witch does descend through a trap door, and the flames are real- in fact, Margaret Hamilton was badly burnt on one take, and was hospitalised for some time.

[@zedwpd]

If only bad witches are ugly, Glinda did Dorothy dirty by asking her if she was good or bad

[@deedee67888]

I never thought of that. 😆

[@artsysabs]

By the way, the lion’s costume is made from a real lion pelt 😳

[@katiem9644]

Gosh it has to have been 40 years since Ive seen this! What a wonderful memory, fun watching this with you.

[@jenfries6417]

Alice in Wonderland and Alice's Adventures Through the Looking Glass came first. The stories of Alice and Wonderland are British, written by Lewis Carroll in the 19th century. The Wizard of Oz and the whole extensive series of books and stories set in the land of Oz is American, written by Frank L. Baum in the 20th century. Oz is the first, if not the only, fully realized fantasy world that is based on the USA. Also, E Pluribus Unum is the motto of the United States. It means "From the Many, One." It's on the Great Seal of the US and printed on our money and a bunch of other official stuff.

[@RYMAN1321]

One of the most iconic films in history. And the theme song “Over The Rainbow” will forever be one of the greatest soundtrack songs ever. I also appreciated the fact that they changed Dorothy’s slippers which in the book were silver to Ruby red in the film. Red definitely stood more out. PS the lion jumping though the window at 37:44 will never *not* be hilarious 😂

[@gugurupurasudaikirai7620]

"The land of E Pluribus Unum" I can see why a non American would wonder what that is. E Pluribus Unum is latin for "out of many, one" and is the motto of the United States, it's frequently printed somewhere on American currency. The Wizard is basically saying he's taking her back to the US

[@nickmasuen1859]

The motto E Pluribus Unum "out of many, one" is on the $1 bill because that motto is part of the Presidential stamp which is on that bill and it goes all the way back to July 4th 1776 when the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence. A committee made up of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, & Thomas Jefferson were the ones tasked with designing a seal & motto for the U.S at the time and when many in Congress, in the 1770's & 80's, opposed to a theistic motto for the nation that would be relating to or characterized by belief in the existence of a god or gods.

[@adrianflores2423]

A masterpiece and all-time classic. This film is a well-known turning point in cinema. Love every moment of this film.

[@juju-zr5dp]

They cut at least 5 songs( and many snippets of dialogue) out of the movie. Perhaps most famously "The Jitterbug". Dorothy also sang a reprise of " Over The Rainbow" in the witches tower. 3 directors. Trivia galore.

[@gugurupurasudaikirai7620]

I'm sure they'd be happy that this became such an enduring classic because this was a miserable movie to film. The Technicolor required lighting that made the set very hot, sometimes over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (pushing 40C). Most of the cast had to arrive on set at 4 in the morning for makeup and costumes, and frequently wouldn't leave until 7 pm or later. They had to replace the first actor for the Tin man because the first one suffered a toxic reaction to the aluminum dust and had to be hospitalized

[@PokhrajRoy.]

People will be surprised to learn that the movie gained popularity only very recently after It was on syndicated television.

[@johnnehrich9601]

Well, "recently" as in the late 1950's. One of the problems for the movie was when the movie came out, Europe was embroiled in a war, so they lost the overseas market. Back then, there was no way to see the film except in a theater. It was re-released in 1955. Then CBS wanted broadcast Gone With The Wind, but MGM didn't let them. As a sort of consolidation prize, they let them show WoO. It stared appearing once a year, a little before Christmas. When it showed each time, it became a big deal with the entire family gathered around.

[@Square-ow7oq]

I'm sorry, but this is very easy to google. Yes, the movie reached its culural phenomenon status decades later after it was released. But that's obvious. When it was released, it was a success, but not a box office juggernaut. It was nominated for 5 Oscars, and it was the 5th top grossing movie of 1939, so it was fairly popular upon release. Not to mention the popularity that the books had enjoyed for decades.

[@jeandoten1510]

The wizard mentions the land of "e pluribus unum"-- which means "out of many, one" and is the "motto" of the United States of America and printed on most of not all of our currency iy's been a while since I checked my pocket chsmfe.)

[@MegaTurkeylips]

E Pluribus Unum= Out of many, one. Particular to the United States, It represents a Republic. Its Latin. . Rome was also a republic, until the Caesars showed up.

[@Jacismiles4u2]

I was 6 or 7 when I first watched this movie. It terrified me so badly I had nightmares for weeks. (The part about the monkeys). I was not able to watch it again for 10 years or more. ;-)

[@jeffmande4671]

I always think what it must've been like to be in the theater in 1939, when Dorothy opened the door to Munchkinland.

[@scruffyjanny555]

This freaking guy and his Karan face all throughout the reaction just itching to find something to be offended over in a movie that’s almost a century old. Sad.

[@ink-cow]

Oz was a very real place in the original books. It wasn't even "over the rainbow" but located in some mysterious place in the USA, surrounded by a deadly impassible desert. Making it a dream with characters from her real life was devised for this musical adaptation. They probably got the idea from the earlier silent version, where Dorothy was swept to Oz with some of the farm hands who took on the disguise of a straw man and tin man. The dream version for the musical helped soften the story somewhat, because the books are actually pretty gruesome fairy tales. The tin man, for example, got that way because a curse was put on him, and he chopped off parts of his real human body bit by bit, until he finally chopped off his head too. Melting witches with water is a consistent phenomenon, and one witch is executed for her crimes by being thrown into a lake. Each quadrant of Oz was ruled over by a witch until Dorothy arrived. The wicked witches controlled the east and west, and the good witches controlled the north and south. An unimportant deviation, Glinda was the witch of the south, not north. The munchkins were watched over by a different witch. Glinda does not intervene; Dorothy has to travel south (more adventures) after the Wizard's balloon takes off, in order to get help from Glinda.

[@theshadowfax239]

Yes, there are 4 witches in the books. Two good witches and two wicked witches. Glinda is the good witch of the Sorth.

[@morganghostbusters-egonfan]

There is a Tom and Jerry animated re-telling of this movie, but however, it skips a few parts.

[@TheLoonyLovebad1]

In the book its not a dream. When she gets back to Kansas she falls out of the sky into the field and runs back home. I don't love the change to it being a dream

[@johnnehrich9601]

The original book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was written in 1900. In it, Oz is a real place, and a lot scarier than this movie. The author went on to write about a dozen sequels. All these books, with their original illustrations (so you can see how the characters were originally imagined) are in the public domain and can be read free of charge. The books are inspired quite a lot, sometimes close, sometimes way over the edge. Oz was meant to be an American fairy tale but the author, L. Frank Baum, had a crazy imagination. Disney purchased the rights to all the sequels, even though MGM still held the rights to the first book. In the 1980's, Disney produced Return to Oz, mostly based on the second and third books, Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz. This was not a musical and was very dark like the books. Many people hated it, particularly if they hadn't read any of the books. Oz fans consider this movie a sort of love letter to Baum's books.

[@johnnehrich9601]

In the book, for instance, the four are attacked by a number of wolves, sent by the witch. The tin woodsman winds up chopping off the head of each. Also a flock of crows, which the scarecrow deals with by twisting the neck of each.

[@matityaloran9157]

Baum insisted that his goal in writing the Oz books was to rid fairy tales of their dark elements

[@jacobjimenez07]

The wizard of oz movie: 😁😁😁🌈 Behind scenes of making the movie: 😳😰

[@coolaunt516]

I saw this movie in a group sing a long. One of the highlights was the whole audience yelling run toto run!

[@zedwpd]

The witch sent a little insect to slow them down in the haunted forest. She sent the Jitterbug and they cut that dance sequence out of the movie during editing.

[@KennieDiaz-sg6fg]

This movie’s a Gem No Franchise needed amazing acting gorgeous costumes, props, and soothing vocals & imagery

[@MilasMixMedia]

People say i do look like Dorothy i am not sure why though it’s a mix between Audrey Hepburn and Judy Garland, i heard that the Wizard Of Oz behind the scenes of the movie is like curse or something like the Tin Man got like metal poisoning from it cause all the paint from it, and Judy Garland they told her to smoke on set because to make her look skinnier even though she is already skinner, so it kinda makes you wonder like how did this movie become so beloved an such a classic movie as it is today, when they’re stories like that.

[@oliviarogers2808]

There's a prequel Disney made that's already out called Oz the Great and Powerful if you're interested in that. It wasn’t critically praised, but I thought it was decent with some creative ideas.

[@johnnehrich9601]

I really didn't like it. James Franco as the early wizard seemed nothing like the dithering Frank Morgan of this movie. And the movie revolved around people in Oz knew nothing about fireworks/gunpowder, invented centuries ago, even though they had sewing machines from the 1800's. Disney did Return to Oz c. 1985, which I simply love, as it was the closest of all the movies related to Oz. Literally the first book I ever read was Ozma of Oz, one of two this movie is based on.

[@matityaloran9157]

That was an underrated movie

[@RYMAN1321]

Odd how that and Wicked are meant to be prequels ?

[@oliviarogers2808]

@RB01.10 why is it odd?

[@RYMAN1321]

@@oliviarogers2808 IDK, I always thought one prequel makes sense but more than one for basically the same story can be a bit confusingLOL

[@a.g.demada5263]

Pour répondre à ta question, oui, Dorothy est orpheline, et oui, il y a une sorcière par point cardinal et celles des points opposés sont sœurs et ont le même caractère (Est et Ouest méchantes, et Nord et Sud gentilles). Après, le fim a omis certains aspects importants du bouquin (ou du moins, des versions que j'ai lu). Déjà, quand la sorcière du Nord embrasse Dorothy sur le frond, elle y laisse une marque qui la protégera du danger. Ensuite, Dorothy arrose volontairement la méchante sorcière de l'Ouest parce qu'elle l'avait réduite en esclavage (elle ne pouvait rien lui faire à cause de la marque) et elle en avait assez de la façon dont elle la traitait. Enfin, dans le livre, ce n'est pas un rêve à la fin car Dorothy retourne chez elle dans une sorte de tourbillon (elle perdra les souliers durant le trajet) avant d'atterrir devant chez elle