Wizard of OZ – A musical made in 1939. This was a good movie of its time, but has also become a classic that is played every year and children enjoy watching even with the corky lines. The music would match up to the action on the screen through-out the entire movie where happy times matched with joyful music and when the neighbor or the wicked witch gave us the scary music.
The musical made it feel as if you were in a dream once the house was lifted into the tornado and landed in a colorful peaceful world. While Dorothy was unconscious the 3D motion of time as her faced moved around the screen which put you in a sense of dream land. As the little people came out of the flowers you noticed they had some unusual facial expressions. The voices were dubbed over with high pitched kid’s voices. Casting for these movies involved a large cast of people who could act and sing.
The ability of the actors and writers to lead the lines into the upcoming musical line such as, when Dorothy was alone at the farm and then starting singing “somewhere over the rainbow” and when they were all in the woods “If I only had a heart, Brain, courage”. Strong points for movie musicals.
Many early blunders such as the string holding up the scare crow and the tail of the lion were visible to those who were watching closely. The backdrops were easily noticed and where they started and finished. Then you had the exotic bird walking around in the scary woods as well as one entering the woods.
Overall this is a classic musical movie for children of all ages and with the corky lines that have survived the test of time and are still around today, “A horse of a different color”, “don’t mind the man behind the curtain”. The multiple ways that “The wicked witch is dead” was said to define each word differently and by each character made this an eventful watch.
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