THE WIZARD OF OZ! (1939) *Reaction* FIRST TIME WATCHING!! *I was waaaay to attatched to that dog!*

[@stanmann356]

You missed the whole point of the Professor making Dorothy think something was wrong with her aunt. He wasn't being malicious. Far from it. He was convincing her to go home. He knew he could argue with her until he was blue in the face with whatever child-like reason she chose to run away for, but by planting that seed of doubt in her mind he made her think it was her own idea to go back.

[@katreacts6843]

Yeah, I guess. I just think it's never okay to tell someone a loved one is sick to manipulate them into doing something, in this case, go home. Having Dorothy worry sick about her aunt's health and feeling guilty on top of it for being the cause, I just think it's cruel.

[@VerneditheSnail]

@@katreacts6843 I second this. That form of manipulation is not right in any context.

[@cflournoy1529]

Yes. Desperate times call for desperate measures. It convinced her to go home. 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@Wellch]

The Professor might be worried about being charged with kidnapping if he let her go with him.

[@mgordon1100]

I was just about to say the same thing. I've seen two videos of her's now and I can tell. There's no arguing with this one.

[@jancw]

I love how you called Ms. Gulch a witch so early in the film!

[@montag4516]

Amongst other things this story is a character/archetype study... Ms. Gulch/Wicked Witch had one quality rarely noted. She wasn't a bullsh!tter. She let everyone know exactly who she was and what her intentions were. She might stab you from the front, but she wasn't a pretentious backstabber. At least you knew what you were getting into when dealing with her. Toto was the one with an intentionally clear perspective who could see right through the facades, masks and illusions as they presented themselves. He was the only one who knew (and dared) enough to look behind the curtain ( the hype of media) to expose the reality of what was being fed to an otherwise gullible audience.

[@tdali8347]

Here's a fun bit of trivia: Billie Burke was 54 years old when she played Glinda the Good Witch; Margaret Hamilton as Miss Gulch/the Wicked Witch, was just 36.

[@BigGator5]

"And remember, my sentimental friend, that a heart is not judged by how much YOU love; but by how much you are loved by others." Fun Fact: When the wardrobe department was looking for a coat for Frank Morgan (Prof. Marvel / The Wizard), it decided it wanted one that looked like it had once been elegant but was a little tattered. They visited a second-hand store and purchased an entire rack of coats, from which Morgan, the head of the wardrobe department and director Victor Fleming chose one they felt gave off the perfect appearance of shabby gentility. One day, while he was on set in the coat, Morgan idly turned out one of the pockets and discovered a label indicating that the coat had been made for L. Frank Baum. Mary Mayer, a unit publicist for the film, contacted the tailor and Baum's widow, who both verified that the coat had at one time been owned by the author of the original "Wizard Of Oz" books. After the filming was completed, the coat was presented to Mrs. Baum. Bonus Fact: The famous "Surrender Dorothy" sky writing scene was done using a tank of water and a tiny model witch attached to the end of a long hypodermic needle. The syringe was filled with milk, the tip of the needle was put into the tank and the words were written in reverse while being filmed from below.

[@reesebn38]

Wow that is so cool. So sad he didn't live to see what an impact his story really had. There was a cool tv movie about his life Where John Ritter played Baum.

[@johnnehrich9601]

I was super impressed when I heard of that story too but apparently it was a legend created by the MGM publicity department out of whole cloth - pun intended. (I don't have the facts on hand to dispute it but I do whish it was true.)

[@mwflanagan1]

“How many times does she have to tell you she’s not a witch? Are you slow?” Cracked me up, Kat. Thanks for this review.

[@RetroRobotRadio]

17:44 - I think the point of all her companions is they actually already have the thing they're seeking... They just lack confidence. The Scarecrow is very intelligent, the woodsman is very caring and the lion will protect his friends with his life.

[@Jeff_Lichtman]

"It's just a bunch of pigs." - Pigs on a farm will treat anything that falls into their pen as food. She was in more danger that you thought. "Twister" is just another word for a tornado. Professor Marvel was just trying to get Dorothy to go home. He lied, but it was for a good reason. This movie was based on a series of 17 books by L. Frank Baum, written between 1900 and 1920. It was turned into a stage play long before it was a movie. There were also silent movie versions made in 1910 and 1925. The one we're about to watch was made in 1939. Director Victor Fleming and the wardrobe department picked out a coat for actor Frank Morgan to wear as the Professor Marvel. One day Morgan turned one of the pockets inside-out and discovered a label that said the coat had been made for L. Frank Baum. They originally wanted to cast Shirley Temple as Dorothy. It would have been an entirely different movie. Temple was typecast as a cute little kid. Also, Garland was a much better singer than Temple. They originally cast Buddy Ebsen as The Tin Man, but he had to quit because he had an allergic reaction to the silver makeup, so they got Jack Haley instead. Ebsen is best known today as Jed Clampett of The Beverly Hillbillies. Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West, was a kind woman who loved children. It bothered her that children were afraid of her after this movie came out. The actors who played the Munchkins were from Europe. Many were Jewish, and they stayed in the U.S. rather than return to Nazi Germany. The horses in Emerald City were colored with Jell-O mix. They had to shoot the scenes quickly before the horses licked it off. There was no CGI in 1939. They had to figure out other ways to do special effects, and sometimes they were dangerous. Margaret Hamilton was badly burned in one of the stunts in this movie, and she refused to do any more stunts like it for the rest of the filming. The "snow" in the poppy field was made from asbestos. Toto got $125 a week. The Munchkins each only got $50 a week. Yip Harburg wrote the lyrics to all the songs, and Harold Arlen wrote the music. Both wrote a large number of other songs, and wrote some together apart from Wizard of Oz, including It's Only a Paper Moon. They'd have worked more together, except that Harburg drove Arlen crazy with his political opinions. Harburg was a socialist. It's not that Arlen disagreed with Harburg, but that Harburg wouldn't shut up about it. Harburg also wrote: April in Paris Brother Can You Spare a Dime? Arlen is considered one of the all-time great American songwriters - some of his best are Accentuate the Positive Come Rain or Come Shine Get Happy I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) Stormy Weather That Old Black Magic. The song Over the Rainbow was almost cut from the movie. It's a slow number, and they thought the movie was too long. Fortunately, they left it in. Otherwise it would have been lost to history. In 2004 the American Film Institute ranked it #1 in their list of 100 Greatest Songs in American Films. It was also named The Song of the Century by the National Endowment for the Arts.

[@jayjaybee]

This was way before CGI. 😀 Good reaction. They used to show this in the US around Easter when I was growing up.

[@katreacts6843]

Yeah, I should have worded it better but CGI was the only word that came to mind that I knew people would know what I was talking about. Maybe I should have used the term "special effects?" What was it called back then?

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

Special effects is correct.

[@matthewwisdom9933]

@@katreacts6843 nice job making this video thank so much

[@suepall5425]

You are quite right about the fact that seeing this as a child would be a completely different experience. I grew up in the 60's and we watched this every year around Halloween. It was so special back then because it only came on once a year and there was no other way to watch a film like this back then. No vcr's, no computers and really only 3 channels on the television. I remember going over to my neighbor's house to watch this because they had a colored television set and we only owned a black and white one. Things were definitely much more magical and we children were much more naive and perhaps gullible, but I kind of think that it was better for children!

[@darrinholscher4897]

Don't know if anyone has said, but this is the first non animation movie to bless us with color.

[@ericjanssen394]

If you're not from the US, or were born after 1990, this was shown on TV EVERY year for forty years (like The Ten Commandments or Christmas specials, only no particular holiday), and it was an event to watch it--And that's how it became the first movie an entire culture ever memorized the dialogue to before VHS, DVD or KZbin clips.

[@Umptyscope]

Add _The Sound of Music_ and _It's a Wonderful Life_ to that list.

[@andie361]

It’s still on every year around thanksgiving. I believe Turner bought the right to air it.

[@ericjanssen394]

@@andie361 Cable doesn’t count. Nor any of Turner’s private TBS/TNT airings since the 50th anniversary.

[@cameronjim2983]

“For someone who doesn’t have a Brian you’re awfully good at finding solutions.” That indeed is the point w/ not just him, but all the characters Dorothy meets along the way to Oz : )

[@tl1110]

Brain not Brian.

[@ohshit4860]

@@tl1110 I mean I don't think he has a Brian either...

[@larrystuder8543]

this film was a ritual in the 50's and 60's. the local TV stations ran it every spring , and everybody watched it. My wife recently began reading the BOOKS to our grandchildren. The oldest is now 10. They love them , obsessively. The books and movie are scary, but kids are flexible, and get the complete message....

[@greenpeasuit]

"You know someone is evil when they set themselves on fire" ... ironically enough, the actress was actually burned because the elevator that was supposed to lower her down under the stage was too slow.

[@katreacts6843]

Oh, no! :O

[@greenpeasuit]

@@katreacts6843 she went to the hospital and had her burns treated, and ultimately finished filming. She was a true trooper and everyone commented on how she was the sweetest person in real life, despite her persona as the wicked witch. I believe I read somewhere that she and the actress who played Dorothy maintained a friendship from then on out.

[@JohnRandomness105]

As I understand it, it wasn't the take that they showed, but the following take.

[@jccw227]

3:08 You never lived on a farm. I have an uncle who used to raise pigs back when I was a kid. Whenever we went to visit, I always wanted to go out and look at them. He always warned me to never get too close because they would try to eat me if given the chance. 22:04 Actually, he WAS drowning in sweat. They had to hose the costume down at the end of the day.

[@oaf-77]

A school of hungry pigs can skeletonize a cow in seconds.

[@katreacts6843]

Yeah, the point I was getting at was that had Dorothy been raised on that farm she would have A) known not to walk on the fence of the pig sty and B) Not freaked out like this when she fell. She would have swiftly stood up and rushed out of there because she would have known the danger :)

[@Venejan]

@@katreacts6843 She can't get up because her foot is caught in the fence wire. The farmhand has to free her from it before he can carry her to safety.

[@greenpeasuit]

If you look closely in munchkin land, there is actually a red brick road spiraling out in the opposite direction. The book has many other adventures for Dorothy and crew, as I recall down both roads.

[@jaypaster8244]

This movie was made in the 30s and there was no CGI, lol. Most of the scenes were filmed in sound stages.

[@flarrfan]

In 1998, for a Wizard of Oz listing on TCM, writer Rick Polito wrote, “Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.”

[@archaeologyfornon-archaeol1014]

This film is not from the 40s. It was shot in the late 30s, and released 1939. In the US the great depression was just beginning to release its hold. Many of the ideas and memes from the film reflect that bleak period. The film influenced future movie making. It was not the first color film, but one of the first, and the use of Technicolor was advanced.

[@PhilHug1]

My fifth grade teacher once told my class once that she she has been terrified of the flying monkeys ever since she was a kid. Every time she would watch the movie, she closes her eyes for all the monkey scenes

[@JohnG500]

My mom can’t watch this movie due to being scared of the monkeys, munchkins, and witches.

[@michaelgoldberg7127]

Frank Morgan, a GREAT character actor had 6 roles in this movie. 1)Professor Marvel, 2)The Doorman at the Emerald City, 3)The Cabby that took them to get cleaned up, 4)The Guard at the entrance to see The Wizard, 5)The Fire Wizard, 6)The Wizard himself. We lost him in 1949 and he never got to see the colorized version that was added after he died.

[@Venejan]

Colorized version? What was colorized, since the movie was already filmed in Technicolor?

[@chocolatebar1592]

84 years old,this film is now. Is that crazy to think?

[@bletheringfool]

Toto was played by a female dog called Terry. Very much a star here. The actors did get on well with her despite the script calling for Toto to be 'destroyed'. Margaret Hamilton who played the witch was very nice in real life.

[@matthewcostello3530]

the wicked witch was a kindergarten teacher beloved by everyone and she was severely burned by one of the times she disappeared in smoke and fire, it was revealed in book 7 that Toto could talk but preferred not to

[@DegrassiInstantStar]

_The Wizard of Oz_ is always going to be a classic, and I am SO happy to see you reacting to it!

[@janedoe5229]

There is NO CGI in this movie. They did the whole thing with cameras. For example, when they changed to color, they built a whole set in sepia, and had a body-double in sepia open the door and get out of sight, and then Judy Garland stepped into view of the camera in color.

[@DavidGarcia-ql7qg]

Imagine how funny it would be watching the wizard of Oz high 😂😂😭😭

[@michaelbastraw1493]

"The CGI in this film is great." You got a spit-take out of me on that one, Kat. Best. Leo.

[@Bob1014ify]

Here's a funny drug reference that nobody gets. Poppies which some varieties produce opium, put them to sleep. Snow which is a nickname for cocaine, woke them up. It's a modern day miracle.

[@johnnehrich9601]

Yes, the idea of the poppies was the source of opium. In the book, one of the characters, maybe the tin woodsman, rescues a mouse who was "royal." When the characters fall asleep in the poppy field, this mouse queen summons all her subjects and with lots of thread, pull the people out of the field. Obviously not practical in a movie before computer effects. Luckily, Baum himself had made a silent movie version (or maybe it was a play) around 1913, where the snow was used instead.

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

I wonder why the poppies didn't put the mice to sleep.

[@nimblehealer199]

Fun Fact: the "snow" that Glenda summons to clear the poppies was asbestos.

[@johnhagan8775]

I love your statement that you want to live in the 50's. This was filmed in 1939, well before WW2 and ages before the beginning of space travel.

[@Venejan]

Moreover, the film is clearly set around 1900, when the original book was published, as evidenced by the clothing and the fact that there are no cars, tractors, or electricity etc. in sight.

[@denvan3143]

Pigs are omnivorous; they can and will attack and devour a helpless human. My parents were both raised on farms and I learned this from them. They are after all descended from wild boars which will tear a person limb from limb. Dorothy‘s jeopardy was very real.

[@katreacts6843]

Which is why I said that Dorothy was clearly not raised on a farm. Because if she had, she would have known to 1) Not walk on the fence near the pigs and 2) Not freaked out, but rather jumped back up and gotten out of there as fast as she could.

[@denvan3143]

@@katreacts6843 good points. When I was a kid they ran this movie every year; we didn’t have a color TV and we watched it one year at my aunt and uncles house, saw it in Color for the first time when I was about six. The flying monkeys were scary but that twister was terrifying. It haunted my dreams for years.

[@janedoe5229]

"It's just a bunch of pigs" that she fell into. Pigs can be dangerous: they can kill you and eat you.

[@greenpeasuit]

Tornado and twister are terms for the same thing, just like a typhoon and a hurricane. There is also the term cyclone, but I forget whether that is a tornado or a hurricane. Speaking of which, add "Twister" to your list of films to watch!

[@johnnehrich9601]

I understand that there was a period where "tornado" was not allowed to be used by the National Weather Service. (Weird.)

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

A cyclone is a tornado/twister.

[@markb3186]

this is NOT the 50's its the 30's

[@JohnRandomness105]

CGI? The late nineteen-thirties (which was when this film was made) didn't have CGI. It was all hand and mechanical. I saw strings swinging the Lion's tail, for example. The Tin Man on-screen unraveled the rope holding the balloon down. But the tornado (or twister -- same thing) has held up over the years. The actors and everyone on stage saw what we saw in the crystal ball.

[@nickmanzo8459]

In the book, the witch who comes to meet Dorothy in Munchkinland and Glenda were separate characters. The witch of the north went unnamed, but she was a good witch who gave Dorothy the slippers (silver in the book not Ruby) and kissed her forehead (a magical sign of protection as none would dare harm anyone kissed by the witch of the North.) The Wizard was taken away by the balloon, and Dorothy’s only hope was Glenda the good witch of the South. She didn’t meet Dorothy until then and was able to tell that the slippers could get her home. The movie made them the same character to wrap up the story at the end with a familiar face.

[@jeffmartin1026]

I have seen this film in theatres twice and it impresses you as much and more seeing it on a full screen. Here in the USA it is being given a 2 night re-release to theatres in honor of Judy Garland's birthday. If you ever get the chance do go see it at a theatre.

[@vicegamer6944]

It’s hard to believe that this movie is nearly 100 years old.

[@Lucas-Stl]

17:00 To answer a question; where does the red brick road go? Here is the answer; The red brick road goes to the Quadling Country in Oz. Red is the Quadlings' state color. In Frank Baum’s books, the Land of Oz was divided into four quadrants and each was designated a particular color: Winkie Country = Yellow, Gillikin Country = Purple, Munchkin Country = Blue, and Quadling Country = Red.

[@littleghostfilms3012]

Margaret Hamilton who played the witch was actually severely burned in the scene where she disappears in a burst of flame. A trap door didn't work properly and that's how she was burned. There were other incidents of actors having injuries on the set.

[@wfly81]

"Twister" is just a folksy colloquialism for tornado. You asked if Dorothy had never seen color before...yes and no. She didn't live in a sepia world, but Kansas is just very brown (which was played up by the film being shot in sepia). So the only real vibrant colors she'd ever seen were in a rainbow, which is why she sang "Over the Rainbow"...she longed to escape to some unknown colorful world that she imagined was on the other side of the rainbow. There is no CGI in this film...I can't even believe you said that. CGI wasn't a thing for another 40+ years. Everything in this film is practical. There is a lot of filming through glass panes, double exposures, matte paintings, and other creative movie "magic" (such as a tornado being created by attaching a stocking to a vacuum cleaner and sucking up dirt). But no computers were harmed in the making of this film. There was another road leaving Munchkin Land...the red brick road. Dorothy knew it was The Emerald City because it's a city made of emeralds.

[@nickmanzo8459]

In the book, Kansas is described as being drab and brown. The color grading they could do back then was limited in black and white film, so sepia tone was a good touch for those kinda settings.

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

Plus, Kansas was set during the Dust Bowl time period, too.

[@Dej24601]

“Twister” was a common term for a tornado (also called a cyclone) that would have been used in everyday remarks, as opposed to tornado which was more “scientific” and formal. For dialogue in a film, it is more graphic and colorful.

[@Dej24601]

Hi, this film was produced in 1938 and came out in 1939 and was one of the early color films, made when Technicolor was used. CGI (computer generated imagery) wasn’t invented for film till the 1970’s, so all the Special Effects for this film were “practical fx” - created in real life. The tornado for example was made of cloth and has become famous as one of the most creative, complicated and realistic of early special fx in movies. The poppies that made the living characters of Dorothy, Lion and Toto fall asleep in the outdoor field is a reference to the fact that opium is made from poppies. The scenes in Kansas are in sepia tone film rather than black & white because sepia has a softer look on film, more fitting with the theme of “is it a dream?” and to better illustrate the “Dust Bowl” years of the 1930’s of the American Midwest, when severe droughts & other problems caused farmland to dry up, and as opposed to using b&w film which has strong contrasts of light and dark, and can look harsher on screen. Technicolor that has been restored/conserved, as it has for Wiz of Oz, will retain its deeply saturated color and vivid tones, longer than many of the digital color film stocks used today. Also, interesting that the iconic, award winning song of Somewhere Over the Rainbow was almost cut from the film by studio execs who didn’t realize the success it would achieve over the decades. 🌈🌈🥰

[@LoganReuter-c2l]

You are absolutely right about Bert Lahr (cowardly lion actor) drowning in sweat. That’s one of the things the costume is known for.

[@NightRanger-lz6tp]

This is probably an old joke but... How dare the producers name the dog after a rock band that wouldn't exist until the late 1970s?

[@RetroRobotRadio]

21:15 - a bit of lore added in the prequel movie that I liked most was that it established that Glenda looked like Dorothy's mother. Not only do the three companions look like the three farm hands, if you recall the advice they each gave her about Ms. Gulch?

[@elizabethparker4511]

To this day I miss watching this movie on tv once or twice a year. This and The Last Unicorn. Sometimes only having 3 channels was good.

[@kschneyer]

If you are enamored of the fifties but aware of its problems, then I would highly recommend Pleasantville.

[@Lord_Williams]

This film when I was a kid terrified me, Margaret Hamilton the witch was the one who had me hiding behind the sofa, but apparently she was the nicest person you could ever have met. A fact about the film, when in Munchkin Land and the witch disappears in that ball of fire, the trap door she was standing on didn’t open as quickly as it should, and Margaret Hamilton was burnt in the flames, the make up she was wearing was lead based and was melting in to her skin, so the director had to scrub it off her face while it was still burning her. Love the channel and much respect.

[@ShuffleUpandDeal32]

Every witch since is basically based on her performance.

[@thunderstruck5484]

Me to I had so many nightmares from this movie but still watched every year since the 60s , thanks again

[@RobertC4458]

@Lord Williams: No the makeup for "The Wicked Witch of the West" was actually COPPER based ( hence the green color, ) NOT lead based. And, yeah, brilliant actress Margaret Hamilton got severely burned filming that part of the scene where "The Wicked Witch of the West" disappears from Munchkin Land in a column of smoke and a spurt of fire. But, no - it was the makeup artist who did Ms. Hamilton's makeup who rushed to remove her makeup ( because hot copper would otherwise burn right through the skin, down to the bone maybe even. ) She had said, in subsequent interviews, that it was VERY painful - not just to be burned, but the makeup removal afterwards [ because they used alcohol ( probably rubbing alcohol ) to remove her makeup. ]

[@ShuffleUpandDeal32]

@@RobertC4458 Pretty sure the one that was lead based was Tin Man, the original actor had to bow out after it made him sick.

[@RobertC4458]

@@ShuffleUpandDeal32 Nope. Aluminum based. An aluminum dust was originally used, which got into actor Buddy Ebsen's lungs and almost killed him. He was forced to leave the production and had a lengthy stay in the hospital. He was replaced by actor Jack Haley, and the aluminum dust was replaced by a safer aluminum paste.

[@VerneditheSnail]

I laughed so hard at your reactions and responses to this film, Kat! XD LOL I also enjoy learning about Iceland, in particular enjoyed what you shared of the folklore of trolls turning into stone if they come out during the day time. While on that topic of Icelandic folklore, how different are Draugr from zombies?

[@phookadude]

So in the sequel Dorthy gets electroshock therapy because she won't quit talking about OZ.

[@greenpeasuit]

... and the next day Ms. Gulch returned and served them papers to sue them and take their farm. The End!

[@Venejan]

It's implied that Miss Gulch "bought it" in the tornado, but it's understandable that the producers didn't want to go into detail on a woman's death in the last minutes of a family movie.

[@johnnehrich9601]

At the time of this movie, no one had footage of a real tornado, which is why they had to create it as a special effect. Apparently the inspiration came from someone seeing a "wind sock" at an airport (used back then to show the direction and force of the wind).

[@laustcawz2089]

"Over The Rainbow", which won an Oscar, almost wasn't included in the film. A lot of coincidences come up if you watch this with the sound off, while listening to the album "Dark Side Of The Moon" by Pink Floyd. This movie is really so filled to the brim with trivia. Also, some people have claimed that every other movie since has referenced it. I don't think that's true at all, but it is still pretty staggering how many times it comes up in the dialogue of this or that film. Right off the top of my head, at least 4 come to mind-- "Gremlins 2: The New Batch", "The Game", "Top Secret" & "After Hours". If I thought about it a while, I'm sure I could xome up with a ton more. If you've ever seen the sitcom "The Beverly Hillbillies", Buddy Ebsen, who played Jed Clampett, was the original Tin Man, but he had a severe reaction to the make-up & couldn't continue. His replacement got a reformulated make-up & was able to tolerate it. There'd been numerous film versions of this story previously, but this one was tremendously ambitious & there were many delays & difficulties just getting it accomplished. I once read a description of the film that referred to it as "the ultimate chick flick-- girls fighting over a pair of shoes". I have to admit that made me chuckle.

[@amandatucker4643]

Hey Kat great reaction I'm not a tornado expert but I think a twister is a another name for tornado but don't quote me on that though.

[@Wellch]

18:22 politicians doesn’t have brains either.

[@AdamFishkin]

"If you have a houseguest and they set themselves on fire before leaving, you know they're not good." I wish you'd been around in 2011 to give that advice to one of my college classmates. He trusted Isaac way too much despite all the red flags, including that one.

[@katreacts6843]

LOL alright I NEED to know the backstory of that one!

[@AdamFishkin]

LOL ... so my classmate, Maurice, rented a small but decent house, two stories plus a basement. He had to split the rent with someone so he settled on Isaac who was taking an arts program adjacent to ours. This guy had a very unhealthy obsession with Woody Allen, and kept up with the idea that everything is psychological. It was therefore his constant alpha-male but also masochist urge to be the center of every discussion, and wallow in self-pity and self-humiliation. One of the early incidents was him dressing up as Joan of Arc at the end of a party and burning himself as he left the house. Maurice ignored shit like this and kept up the friendship, despite mine and other people's doubts (to put it mildly) that it would work. Turns out Isaac's whole endgame with his antics was to pick up ladies, and he did ... *and one of them was Maurice's girlfriend*. Maurice found out when he caught Isaac and a whole bunch of them in the basement having an orgy. When Maurice threatened to call the cops, Isaac set off a booby trap with the plumbing, and he flooded the house. For legal reasons that's where I end the story.

[@katreacts6843]

@@AdamFishkin THIS is the most EPIC story I think I've ever heard!! 😂😂😂

[@nickmanzo8459]

“How do you know this is Emerald City?” … because it’s a city made out of emeralds?

[@A113-p9e]

The “ghosts” in the twister weren’t really ghosts, more of a result of the film tech at the time.

[@williamjamesayers7719]

Also known as twisters, tornadoes are violently spinning, funnel-shaped columns of air that stretch from the dark thunderclouds they form in all the way to the ground.

[@timroebuck3458]

This was 1939. Not many indoor bathrooms then.

[@stevensprunger3422]

This used to play every year right before school started when I was a youth just once a year and we only had a black-and-white TV Later I found out that Judy Garland who plays Dorothy lived here in the antelope Valley and Lancaster California

[@richardcramer1604]

The only thing that bothered me about your reaction is you kept saying the 1940s, this movie was made in 1939, not the 1940s (though it was rereleased to the public in 1949).

[@Shann714]

Nightmare fuel for kids. At least for me. I could never get through the flying monkeys. They scared the crud out of me when I was little.

[@PikminandOatchi]

Fun fact: The actress would played the witch was a kindergarten teacher.

[@katreacts6843]

I would have cried everytime I saw her if she had been my kindergarten teacher after this :O

[@johnchitwood8799]

In the scene in Munckinland where the wicked witch turned into the fireball, the actress was severely burned by the pyrotechnics,and spent time in the hospital for severe burns. A lot of people were injured in this movie.

[@reesebn38]

If you are such a dog lover you have to watch the greatest dog actor of all time. His name is Jed and he was half wolf and half husky. He has a small but important part in John Carpenters "The Thing"(1982). Carpenter called Jed one of the best actors he ever worked with. But what you should really watch is "The Journey Of Natty Gann"(1985) Jed is the star. Such a wonderful film about a young girl and her wolf/dog on a road trip, beautifully filmed!! Jed's other great movie is "White Fang". About a boy and his wolf/dog searching for gold. Just look up his picture beautiful Dog. He died in 1995 at the age of 18.

[@Pinkielover]

great movie.. Kids today still love it.. Every one of my nieces and nephew has watched it Multiple times on their own to

[@wiggion]

Released in 1939, so late thirties. So no CGI, all old-time special effects, and painted backdrops. Which is part of it greatness. Most of characters, with some liberties were taken from book by L. Frank Baum, so the story was known, but movie did depart quite a bit from books.

[@archaeologyfornon-archaeol1014]

Pigs can often be dangerous in close quarters. Not good to fall into the pig own sometimes.

[@BillyBong]

When you realize in your thirties that when they run through the field they are high on heroin LOL

[@katreacts6843]

Sure looks like it! Or shrooms!

[@BillyBong]

@@katreacts6843 well it's heroin cause they ran through a field of poppies.

[@edwardmorton5131]

Whellp looks like she's gotta watch old yeller now

[@cameronjim2983]

The lion rolling his R’s gets me too. : P

[@katreacts6843]

Oh, my God that scene killed me! It was just too funny!

[@nickmanzo8459]

Trolls turning to stone in the sunlight is a trope going all the way back to Nordic mythology. Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien incorporated it into his own novels as well.

[@candicelitrenta8890]

They did not have any neighbor type of thing in 1939 which is when this film was made, also it was taken from a series of books which was before then even.

[@642lin]

tornado and twister is the same thing. people call it a twister because the wind is spinning.

[@oaf-77]

Twister is a colloquialism for tornado.

[@Lucas-Stl]

8:49 Technically, they mean the same type of weather phenomenon, but if I recall correctly a Twister is considered more condensed and smaller then a Tornado. 15:16 Funny that you mention that, as you noted there is a Witch for each of the four points, in the book Glinda is the Good witch of the South whilst the Good Witch of the North was unnamed. Because of this, in the movie version here, Glinda combines the two characters into one.

[@toodlescae]

I always thought that twister was just a colloquial name for a tornado because of the twisting motion of it.

[@Lucas-Stl]

@@toodlescae In other words, slang for the same thing, yes.

[@toodlescae]

@@Lucas-Stl yes. At least that's what I thought.

[@DanielZ5]

@3:50 ... Then the view pressure sets in and next vid "welcome back todays film is Cujo" 😅

[@katreacts6843]

LOL oh, no, that is one film I wanna stay the heck away from!

[@impishmisconception7762]

Margaret Hamilton got third-degree burns from going down in the elevator in the floor, that fire was real and it burned her.

[@pureserenity524]

15:55 *hides her pyrotechnics kit under her desk* "So, I guess you won't be having me over for dinner anytime soon?"😢

[@JR05-1]

Didn't realize it before, but you can see the pants of the Tin Man painted the same silver as his costume and him wearing a white shirt at 29:18. His legs also have a U shape cut out so he can move them up and down freely.

[@Demondragonkinggav]

I think Glenda used Dorothy to topple the evil witches rather then trying to do it herself :P

[@walkerlocker6126]

Having watched a few reactions to this, it makes me so happy how Team Toto everyone is. Toto is the goat

[@xchiro1818]

"Just a bunch of pigs?" Hogs & pigs can be VERY dangerous. Fall in a pen, and they could crush you. They can also become aggressive, and tear you to shreds.

[@stanmann356]

I love how she came out of that pig pen clean as the winter snow

[@katreacts6843]

Which is why I mentioned why Dorothy was clearly not raised on a farm because if she had she would have A) known not to walk on the fence of the pig sty and B) not freaked out when she fell but rather got up swiftly and rushed out of there a quick as she could.

[@cathyvickers9063]

This was one of the first movies to have color, so Dorothy entering COLOR from the familiar b&w was magical. The term you're looking for is "special effects." CGI needs computers to have Computer Generated Animation. The audience for this movie were familiar with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Bahm. In the novel, Dorothy is 10 years old when the twister (tornado) magically brought her to Oz. Basic info: Oz is a magical land that's probably in an alternate universe. It's an oasis surrounded by a toxic desert. It used to be ruled by a king named Oz, but when he died without an heir, the greater witches fought over and claimed the four lands: Quadlingland in the South & Gillicanland inthe North were claimed by Glinda & Wanda; while Munchkinland in the East & Winkieland in the West fell into evil hands. The so-called "wizard", aka the humbug, arrived in a hot air balloon emblazoned with his first two initials, O.Z. He quickly took advantage of the power vacuum & his mistaken identity, & set himself up as the "Wizard of Oz." Another take on the Wizard of Oz story is The Wiz, an all-Black musical from the 1970s. You might like it, based on your critique here. Dorothy is more realistically scared & unsure; the music is catchy; Michael Jackson plays the Scarecrow; & Dorothy's visit to Oz & her adventures there all teach her she has what it takes to accept a job offer. She's a schoolteacher in her 20s.

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

I forget who lives in the south...whether it was Professor Wogglebug or Ozma, but I think it was some sagely man. There were something like 30 or 31 Oz books written by L. Frank Baum...this story is just the first one.

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

Ozma was the rightful ruler of Oz, so her HQ was the Emerald City once she was restored to the throne. L. Frank Baum wrote the first 14 Oz books, then the series was continued by others (Ruth Plumly Thompson writing the greatest number).

[@RobertC4458]

@Jean-Paul Audette: Nope! Wrong! In the Oz BOOKS, at least, "Glinda" lives in the south. In the original book - "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" written by extremely brilliant, children's book author, L. Frank Baum [ illustrated by W.W. Denslow, published 1900 - by George M. Hill Co. ( later Reilly & Britton, then Reilly & Lee ) ] - after "The Wizard" accidentally leaves "Dorothy" behind; "Dorothy" and her friends had to travel south to the Quadling Country ( where everything is red ) to visit "Glinda" in her castle to find out how for "Dorothy" to get back home to Kansas. In the book "Glinda" is not mentioned until Chapter 18, and we don't meet her until Chapter 23 ( the next-to-last chapter. ) As opposed to "Glinda" in the 1939 film - she identifies herself as "Glinda, the Witch of the North." She makes her first appearance at just 20 minutes, 40 seconds into the film. She makes appearances throughout the film to help* "Dorothy." "Professor Wogglebug" and "Ozma" were NOT introduced until book #2 - "The Marvelous Land of Oz," written by Baum, illustrated by John R. Neill, published by Reilly & Britton ( later became Reilly & Lee, ) 1904. Neither character is originally from the Quadling Country. Neither character appears in, or is even mentioned in, the 1939 film. 30 -31 Oz books? Try 40 [ 40 that were considered canonical ( the "Famous Forty," ) and that were published by George M. Hill Co. ( book #1 only, ) Reilly & Britton ( books #s 2 - 11, ) and Reilly & Lee ( books #s 12 - 40. ) ] And ONLY books #s 1 - 14 were written by Baum. Then, after Baum's death in 1919, Ruth Plumly Thompson continued the series - writing 19 novels from 1921 - 1939. Then writer/illustrator John R. Neill ( who had been illustrating the Oz books since book #2 ) wrote and illustrated 3 more ( published 1940, 1941, and 1942, by Reilly & Lee. ) Then Oz scholar Jack Snow wrote 2 Oz novels, published 1946 and 1949 ( by Reilly & Lee, ) illustrated by Frank Kramer. Then Rachel R. Cosgrove wrote 1 Oz novel, published ( by Reilly & Lee ) in 1951, illustrated by Dirk Gringhuis. Then, lastly, the mother-and-daughter team of Eloise Jarvis McGraw and Lauren Lynn McGraw wrote 1 Oz novel, published ( by Reilly & Lee ) in 1963, illustrated by Dick Martin. * Or is that "help?" Some fan theorists have advanced the theory that "Glinda" is the worse villainess, even worse than "The Wicked Witch of the West." Because - after "The Wicked Witch of the West" disappears, and at about the 30 minute mark, all "Glinda" had to do was to tell "Dorothy" what she tells her later - at 01:32:37, and slightly beyond. Kat's indignant reaction to "Glinda" reminds me of that hilarious sketch, from late-night sketch comedy series "MAD TV" ( 1995 - 2009 on FOX, then 2016 on The CW ) - "The Wizard of Oz (Alternate Ending,)" where an irate "Dorothy" ( Nicole Parker ) really goes off on "Glinda" ( Stephnie Weir ) for deceiving her and sending her off to see "The Wizard" ( with Josh Meyers as "Scarecrow," Paul Vogt as "Cowardly Lion," Keegan as "Tin Man," and Jordan Peele as "Tin Man #2." ) Watch here at: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJbbnmV-npdrjtk

[@RobertC4458]

@@oliverbrownlow5615 Yep! Ozma was established as being the legitimate ruler of Oz - at the end of book #2 - "The Marvelous Land of Oz," written by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by John R. Neill, published by Reilly & Britton, 1904. Yes - Baum only wrote the first fourteen ( 14 ) Oz novels, from 1900 to his death in 1919. And, yeah - Ruth Plumly Thompson wrote the most, 19 Oz novels. There were actually 40 total Oz books [ 40 that were considered canonical ( the "Famous Forty," ) and that were published by George M. Hill Co. ( book #1 only, ) Reilly & Britton ( books #s 2 - 11, ) and Reilly & Lee ( books #s 12 - 40. ) ] As you mentioned, ONLY books #s 1 - 14 were written by Baum. Then, after Baum's death in 1919, Ruth Plumly Thompson continued the series - writing 19 novels from 1921 - 1939. Then writer/illustrator John R. Neill ( who had been illustrating the Oz books since book #2 ) wrote and illustrated 3 more ( published 1940, 1941, and 1942, by Reilly & Lee. ) Then Oz scholar Jack Snow wrote 2 Oz novels, published 1946 and 1949 ( by Reilly & Lee, ) illustrated by Frank Kramer. Then Rachel R. Cosgrove wrote 1 Oz novel, published ( by Reilly & Lee ) in 1951, illustrated by Dirk Gringhuis. Then, lastly, the mother-and-daughter team of Eloise Jarvis McGraw and Lauren Lynn McGraw wrote 1 Oz novel, published ( by Reilly & Lee ) in 1963, illustrated by Dick Martin.

[@loganinkosovo]

Margaret Hamilton, the Wicked Witch of the West, was dropped though a trap door when she disappeared in the fire and red smoke. The fire effect set her dress on fire as she dropped through the trap door and she was badly burned before they could snuff out the burning dress.

[@timanderson5417]

best reactor on you tube! No bs at all. Love it

[@katreacts6843]

Thanks! :D

[@Angelicwings1]

Fun fact the actress who played the wicked witch got burnt during shooting and also she was a kindergarten teacher

[@radioactive_moose]

If you found this scary at times, the sequel Return to Oz, based more on the books themselves is absolutely terrifying. More so than most children's movies were.

[@johnnehrich9601]

Yes but as someone who grew up on the books (Ozma of Oz, the third book, was the first book I ever read), I love Return to Oz.

[@danieladiaphorist1308]

Twister is to tornado as fiddle is to violin. Excellent reaction

[@amandatucker4643]

PS cyclone is another name for tornado.

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

Give a 'like' if the flying monkeys fueled your nightmares as a kid (or adult).

[@thomastimlin1724]

the oil can..."This is why Yoga is important"...okay, I lost it at that line lol. The guy who played the professor, also played the doorman to the wizard, the wizard himself, and the door man to the Emerald city. the Lion singing the King of the Forest, Bert Lahr, was the funniest character in the whole movie, and he finally got to you lol. I'm sure you understand this was meant as children's movie, not a Harry Potter type thing. Harry wasn't even a book then of course. things were presented/repeated to children to remind them the Wizard is powerful and scary, allegedly...and so...Classic line: "we're e not in Kansas anymore" Robin Williams used that quite often. He used that line in reference to Vietnam, in the movie "Good Morning Vietnam."

[@angelaatwood46]

Actually, this was the 1930s.

[@khalidbinwaleed5072]

I was terrified of this movie as a child gave me so many nightmares. My mum hated me for destroying the video tape when I was a kid it scared me that much. I love it as a adult now such a masterpiece

[@hifijohn]

amazing movie hard to believe it was made back in the 30's!!

[@amandatucker9407]

A twister and tornado are the same thing twister is just another name for tornado.😉

[@tomyoung9049]

A twister is just another name for a tornado. We get warnings for them all summer where I live but thankfully they don't completely form often. We had a pair pass thru my town about the time I was in high school. The sky actually turned green. Was a very scary storm.

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

LOL I swear, every time we tried to go camping when I was a kid, we ALWAYS got caught in a tornado. After about the 4th time, we just stayed home.