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An alphabetical The Wizard Of Oz recut is both orderly and chaotic
The A.V. Club ^ | January 4, 2016 | Joe Blevins

Posted on 01/09/2016 3:56:34 PM PST by EveningStar

History records that The Wizard Of Oz was edited by one Blanche Sewell, an Oklahoman and thwarted actress who also cut together such memorable films as Red Dust, Go West, and Grand Hotel during her 25-year career in Hollywood. But what if Oz had been assembled instead by an extremely diligent file clerk, one who cherished order and neatness over meaning and context? That is the unlikely scenario behind "Of Oz The Wizard," a bizarre and thorough alternate edit of the 1939 family classic by filmmaker Matt Bucy. He has chopped The Wizard Of Oz, all 101 minutes of it, into individual words, and then arranged those words alphabetically, starting with "a" and ending with "zipper." Bucy's video is a neat freak's delight. Even the opening titles have been alphabetized, right down to the fine print.

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TOPICS: Humor; TV/Movies; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: cinema; film; mattbucy; movies; ofozthewizard; thewizardofoz; wizardofoz
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What kind of program do you need to convert the shooting script into an alphebetical production such as this?

Basically, video-editing software such as Adobe Premiere or Windows Movie Maker, and an obscene amount of free time.

21 posted on 01/10/2016 3:00:00 PM PST by RansomOttawa (tm)
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