Posted on 10/08/2010 3:20:56 PM PDT by EveningStar
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) is the earliest surviving film version of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel...
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I ordered TWOO from Netflix and it included either 2 or 3 old silent versions of the movie. I remember one was really bad and another pretty good. Neither quite as good as the 1939 version tho.
I am sure the 1910 version was one of them.
That is so neat that it’s still in existence! Pretty funny to watch. :~)
Isn’t it an extra on the blu=ray version?
I haven’t seen the blu-ray version. Now that I think about it, I am pretty sure there were 3 besides the MGM color movie. One was very short and another definitely was a precursor to the 1939 version.
Pretty cool, if not slightly creepy. I don’t remember a donkey being in the 1949 version....
err, make thar 1939 version. Film making certainly came a long way in just 30 yrs.
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