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Before Star Wars, the biggest movie event of my childhood was watching the Wizard of Oz the ONE time a year it was broadcast on network television (usually CBS). I'm not kidding you youngsters, it was like a national holiday...the only thing everyone talked about the day of and the day after at school was the movie and if you saw it.
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For years I watched the annual broadcast on our B&W TV set, unaware of the switch from black and white Kansas to full color Oz. Imagine my shock when I finally saw the film in its entirety in color. It was a true OMG moment.
My mother-in-law, growing up in western Canada, remembers vividly seeing the movie during the 1949 re-release and being just wowed when the color came on the screen.
A couple of years ago, I read the book to the girls and was shocked to discover that the wicked witch of the west was in it for about eight pages...she's a very minor character.
During my childhood, I watched it each year. And each year the flying monkeys scared the woo woo out of me. I remember trying to hide under the couch.
Ditto for me! They were nasty flying monkeys!
Hollywood has made very few out and out fantasies in the magical kingdom and all, but this one was very near perfect.
The last time I watched it, I had the subtitles on and the songs are incredibly witty, funny and clever. There's more in them than you catch in one viewing, especially with all the munchkins etc distracting your attention.
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A couple of years ago, I read the book to the girls and was shocked to discover that the wicked witch of the west was in it for about eight pages...she's a very minor character.
Ditto for me! They were nasty flying monkeys!
Hollywood has made very few out and out fantasies in the magical kingdom and all, but this one was very near perfect.
The last time I watched it, I had the subtitles on and the songs are incredibly witty, funny and clever. There's more in them than you catch in one viewing, especially with all the munchkins etc distracting your attention.