Oh lol nice. Magical moment

I always wished that this would have been the first movie to ever have Technicolor. How amazing would that transition have been?

It really is funny how easy it is to overlook little things like that. I've seen this movie so many times and never once contemplated that the interior was sepia as well as Dorothy and then in the same shot she emerges in color. Simply because with today's technology it'd be so easy to just select which parts of the frame to put a sepia filter on and not need to do it practically.

All I hear when the door opens is the cash register.

I never knew that, and I've been watching this movie since I was tiny! Back then it was an annual event, and all the kids looked forward to it.

Yes, and I watched it every single year!

Yes, we'd watch it and everyone would comment about the change to color. We never understood that because at the time we only had a black and white TV.

This and the Christmas claymation specials… such good memories

I was just thinking about that while watching this. I grew up in england and i think i remember it on at xmas or boxing day.

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Her watching Mr. Rogers would be absolutely adorable.

Agreed, watching any Mr. Rogers stuff would be amazing! The documentary I would recommend over the Tom Hanks film. The real Rogers has a deeper resonance than the movie for sure. Pure gold to see, especially if you didn't grow up with him like some of us.

She apparently made an appearance on Sesame Street, and scared a bunch of viewers.

Absolutely watch Mr. Rogers!

One year, I'm 54 now, I hid in the kitchen every time the witch came on screen on the TV. lol

I’m trying to get her to watch an original version of “A Christmas Carol” The 1951 Alister Sim version to be exact. She’s reacted to some modern versions like Scrooged with Bill Murray and I think the Muppet version, but not any of the actual traditional novel type.

Truth.

Yes, that's exactly the appeal of reaction videos like this - especially if there is an emotional response from the reactor. It reminds me of when I was a kid and I said to a friend - "You have to watch this movie with me !" after having watched it already.

I know right? This reaction made me smile so much. 🥰

@@sonofliberty1 I love this movie and watching young people react to it. I liked this one best of all!

Yah, Mary catches on really fast🙂

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I remember one year it was on TV on a Wednesday night. My family hurried home after Wednesday night church and got home around the time she entered OZ.

Yes. Once a year. A big event. Always watched.

It's also marred with a lot of tragedy and scandal.

it was NOT that well received in 1939. T V showings starting almost 2 decades later made it a classic.

@@bunpeishiratori5849 Interesting! I didn’t know that.

@@bunpeishiratori5849 I don't think so; but his voice is in the 'Off to see the Wizard'. They changed the makeup to a paste instead of the powder for Jack Haley Jr.

My brother would threaten his kids if they misbehaved by telling them if they kept it up he would put on "Chitty chitty bang bang". Everyone hated that movie SO MUCH! The kids found it tedious & dull. "Shitty shitty bang bang" they'd call it.

My brother had nightmares about the same character for years. Once we were grown up and he had kids of his own I, as the favorite uncle, gave my nephews this movie for Christmas one year. He got so mad at me and was all “Why would you do that to my kids!?”. He was amazed that they weren’t scared at all. I think he ended up questioning all sorts of things about his childhood after that.

In my opinion, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a flawed yet watchable movie. It's worth seeing at least once, and it does stand up under several viewings. However, some of the plot turns are illogical, and sometimes the characterizations fall flat. The music, sets, and costumes are pretty good, though. The movie is more fun than not.

Trivia note : "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" was written by Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond (who was also known for a gimmicky car and a lot of "bang bang").

I watched it recently. It was super long.

This is actually the only version of Wizard of Oz where it is just a dream.

In this version of the book they altered that Dorothy only dreamed it. But in the books, she really did go to Oz. You should watch " Oz, The Great And Powerful ". You'll see the connections that it wasn't wasn't a dream. The cowardly lion is in it. Amongst other characters. You'll see how the wizard became the wizard of Oz. Lots of other backgrounds.

@terry hughes - All the people in Dorothy's life EXCEPT her uncle! Why is that, I wonder?

@@StarShine-Ranch Aunt Em doesn’t have an Oz counterpoint either. Everyone in Kansas has an Oz counterpoint character except for Aunt Em and Uncle Henry.

@@kailyns8159 Except that Auntie Em appears in the witches' crystal ball in Oz, looking for Dorothy. Uncle Henry does not.

Gone With The Wind was also made in colour the same year as The Wizard of Oz.

She also appeared on Mr. Rogers.

For a long time CBS showed it every autumn.

Before she was an actress, Margaret Hamilton (the Wicked Witch of the West) was a kindergarten teacher. Can you imagine one of her students seeing her in this movie?!?

@@JPSE57 I saw her once on Mr Rogers Neighborhood in the 70’s I think. She explained the witch wasn’t evil, she was sad.

@@NemeanLion- I love that episode. And she came/he brought her on to demystify the Witch for the kids.

@@Deathbird_Mitch yeah, it was pretty awesome. I think there was a pretty big change happening during that time that people started seeing things beyond just good vs evil. If you get a chance, it was fun seeing her appear in the 70’s Kolchak movie “The Night Strangler” as an eccentric university professor. Here it is in case you don’t want to watch the whole thing. Start at 36min 22 sec. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q-Boh8hmsda7pGQ.html

Totally ripped off by George Lucas

And the visual effects.

In the decade after my mother's death, before his own, my father frequently sang the melancholy title song from this movie around our house.

The gift-giving scene was scripted by Yip Harburg, who was the lyricist for the film. He is known to have written other bits, and I strongly suspect the classic line about people without brains doing an awful lot of talking is his work.

Yep, when the Cowardly Lion jumps out the hallway window leading right into a commercial break is ingrained in my mind to the point I expect to see it when I'm watching reactions to it here on KZfaq, lol.

@@pencilnecked1579 His jumping out the window also meant no more songs. Unless you count, Oh-Ee-Um....

@@accam6734 It also meant a commercial break. 😆

@@autumncolors7015 Which was mentioned in the original comment.

just a friendly correction....autumnal equinox. think night and day are of equal length.

The actress, whose name was Margaret Hamilton, was working as a daycare worker when she was offered the part of the Wicked Witch of the West. I love that episode of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. It showed that Margaret Hamilton was really a nice lady in real life.

@@j.woodbury412 She also appeared in an episode of _Sesame Street_ too. But it wasn't until recently that this episode, which was thought long since lost due to being banned after its initial airing, was rediscovered.

@@TherealRNOwwfpooh I had heard that she was on an episode of Sesame Street, but for some reason they thought the episode was too scary for children. That's a shame, really.

Before VHS we had to wait the retire year

Agreed, we never missed it, only when we got older did we find out that my mother hated this movie, she saw it in the theater in 1939 when she was 5 and she said it was silly and she couldn't understand why my brother and i liked it, yet she was the biggest Judy Garland fan you'd ever meet.

@@craigplatel813 Yeah. Only two of those once a year movies I can think of that are still going on are It's A Wonderful Life on NBC around Christmas and The Ten Commandments on ABC around Easter. There are the X-mas things like 24 hours of A Christmas Story on TBS/TNT and the 1951 A Christmas Carol for around 24 hrs on some semi-premium channel but those are given many showings over the course of a day, not just one and done.

​@@pencilnecked1579 During the period before VHS, when *The Wizard of Oz* was only shown once a year, *It's a Wonderful Life* (1946) was believed to have fallen into public domain, so it was shown a dozen or more times every year, on many different channels, especially during the holiday season, but also at other times as well.

people keep saying it played on thanksgiving. i remember it playing for the halloween season. why would they play it on thanksgiving? its a halloween movie! in 1939 ww2 hadn't happend yet. the great depression was still a global crisis. but the world was bracing for war. the japanese had already invaded korea and china. italy had conquered ethiopia and albania. and the nazis had taken over austria and czechoslovakia. hitler invaded poland in september of 1939 and ww2 commenced. but 1939 is considered THE golden year in american film. among the classic movies released that year was "gone with the wind," "mr smith goes to washington," "beau geste," "wuthering heights," "of mice and men," "stagecoach," "destry rides again," "the women," "young mr lincoln," "gunga din" and "the wizard of oz." all of them are must-see excellent films.

Except, later writers continued his work. This is how the original "Famous 40" literary canon of OZ came to be. Contrast this to the various film (the silent era black & white films made by OZ creator L. Frank Baum during the early days of filmmaking, the 1939 MGM classic that was reacted to above, the made-for-TV animated special _Journey Back to OZ_ starring Judy Garland's daughter Liza Minelli reprising her mother's role as Dorothy despite encountering new friends & a new witch in the form of Mombi when she goes back "over the rainbow" to see how her friend the Scarecrow has adjusted to life as Emerald City's sovereign, the grimdark pseudo sequel _Return to OZ_ [which is loosely based on the next two OZ books following the original, although the plot centered around a return to OZ for Dorothy which didn't happen in literary canon until _Dorothy of OZ_ was first published, those who developed _Return to OZ_ actually paid MGM a hefty sum for the limited use of the Ruby Slippers, and introduced the true heiress of OZ named Princess Ozma to movie audiences for the first time, because she initially appears in the film as another imprisoned young girl trapped inside the insidious neighborhood sanitarium -- Dorothy herself had been sent there to undergo electroshock therapy by her Aunt Em & Uncle Henry for her constant talks about OZ when they themselves never earnestly believed Dorothy's repeated claims that the events of the original OZ story actually happened, even though they did -- just to be ultimately revealed to be Princess Ozma near the end of the movie when Dorothy frees her from an enchanted mirror before returning back to Kansas, although Princess Ozma did promise to monitor how Dorothy was doing from time to time, however Dorothy would have to keep her conversations with her Royal Highness a closely guarded secret from her Aunt Em & Uncle Henry out of fear of being sent away yet again to a psych ward] which was made by Disney in 1989, Disney's flagrant desire to piggyback off of the continued success of _Wicked_ known as 2009's _OZ: The Great & Powerful_ starring James Franco as the titular charlatan even if the particular film in question was nothing at all whatsoever like _Wicked_ but instead stands alone as Disney's own attempt at a prequel to the original OZ story, as well as countless others) & musical (The Wizard of Oz IN CONCERT, The Wiz [a hip-hop version of the story starring a young Michael Jackson, Diana Ross & other notable African-American singers], and of course, Wicked [based on the revisionist 1995 novel _Wicked: The Life & Times of the Wicked Witch of the West_ by Gregory McGuire, this inversion of the tale retold from the perspective of our green-skinned cackling villainess reworked into a tragically misunderstood protagonist named Elphaba evolved into the popular -- "I know about popular!" [ ] -- 2003 Broadway musical _Wicked_ that was so successful that this particular incarnation of OZ is finally getting its own dual pair of movies based on it made by Universal Studios], most prolifically) renditions of the original tale, most of which tend to stand on their own as separate projects, thus creating an OZ multi-verse.

There is a rather great adaptation of this as a fan film on KZfaq. It's called Heartless : The Story of the Tin Man. It's obviously not a high budget production but it does a great job of getting the emotion and feeling across of a man that slowly losses himself until his very heart is lost and the loving women he wanted to spend his life with gone with it. It's also a good reminder that the Wizard of Oz is still one of a series of books that expand upon the world.

@@joeb918 It's probably also because of her voice. While Temple could sing, she wasn't really known for her voice. Hence the casting of Judy Garland who _was_ a singer, even at the tender young age of 16. This caused some other problems, among which was having a 16 year old young woman with plenty of original upholstery playing a pre-teen girl. This required a great deal of imagination and compression bandages. (Dorothy Gale is kept at the age of 11 in the books, as long as she stays in Oz.)

First one is tough. I say this as a Trekkie. Don't give up after the first one. Rest are good. And of course "First Contact" is my personal favorite, while not "original".

Liza Minelli's most iconic role by far was in *Cabaret* (1972). I love her early role in the television holiday musical, *The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood* (1965). Liza also played Dorothy in an animated film, *Journey Back to Oz* (1972), which featured an all-star voice cast including Margaret Hamilton as Auntie Em!

She also married the tin man’s son.

Cabaret is Liza Minnelli's signature work. I believe she won an Oscar for it.

That film is a mess. It's a shame, because it had a lot of potential, and Michael Jackson is excellent in it. Unfortunately Diana Ross was too old to be playing Dorothy, and she is simply not very good/miscast in the role.

@@Rocket1377 The only thing I'll agree with you on is Ross's age as she was a little on the older side for the role of Dorothy. But to say that the entire film was a "mess" for that or any other reason. And that she wasn't "very good" simply because of her age is ageist and absurd. It sounds like it's been a while since you've seen that film if that's really your summary of it. So watch her performances of "Brand New Day" and "Home" which are both on YT to refresh your memory She was extraordinary in both. And her performance of " Home ", which was the final song of the movie, was almost revelatory. And is still one of the most moving musical performances I've ever seen in film or elsewhere. To simply dismiss her portrayal and execution of the role only because of her age is a reductive, simplistic take that in no way reflects how she actually performed.

The cyclone effect was so good that they recycled the footage into some other movies.