The wizard of Oz

Resource Information

The work The wizard of Oz represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The wizard of Oz

Statement of responsibility

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Victor Fleming production ; produced by Loews Incorporated ; screenplay by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolfe ; adaptation by Noel Langley ; produced by Mervyn LeRoy ; directed by Victor Fleming

Creator

• Wizard of Oz (Motion picture : 1939)

Contributor

• Grapewin, Charles, 1869-1956
• Haley, Jack, 1899-1979
• trueGarland, Judy
• Fleming, Victor, 1889-1949
• Hamilton, Margaret, 1902-1985
• Lahr, Bert, 1895-1967
• Burke, Billie, 1885-1970
• Loew's Incorporated
• trueLangley, Noel, 1911-1980
• Bolger, Ray
• LeRoy, Mervyn, 1900-1987
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Morgan, Frank, 1890-1949
• trueBaum, L. Frank, (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919
• Rosson, Harold, 1895-1988
• Ryerson, Florence
• trueArlen, Harold, 1905-1986
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Sewell, Blanche
• Turner Entertainment Co
• Woolf, Edgar Allan

Actor

• Bolger, Ray
• Morgan, Frank, 1890-1949
• Lahr, Bert, 1895-1967
• Hamilton, Margaret, 1902-1985
• Haley, Jack, 1899-1979
• Grapewin, Charles, 1869-1956
• trueGarland, Judy
• Burke, Billie, 1885-1970

Director of photography

• Rosson, Harold, 1895-1988

Editor of moving image work

• Sewell, Blanche

Film director

• Fleming, Victor, 1889-1949

Film distributor

• Warner Home Video (Firm)

Film producer

• Fleming, Victor, 1889-1949
• LeRoy, Mervyn, 1900-1987

Production company

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Loew's Incorporated

Publisher

• Turner Entertainment Co

Screenwriter

• Ryerson, Florence
• trueLangley, Noel, 1911-1980
• Woolf, Edgar Allan

Subject

• Good and evil
• Good and evil -- Juvenile films
• Juvenile works
• Musical films
• Musical films
• Oz (Imaginary place)
• Oz (Imaginary place) -- Juvenile films
• Scarecrow (Fictitious character : Baum) -- Drama
• Scarecrow, (Fictitious character from Baum)
• Scarecrow, (Fictitious character from Baum) -- Juvenile films
• Tin Woodman (Fictitious character) -- Drama
• Tin Woodman, (Fictitious character)
• Tin Woodman, (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Wizard of Oz (Fictitious character) -- Drama
• Wizard, of Oz (Fictitious character)
• Wizard, of Oz (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile films
• Oz (Imaginary place) -- Drama
• Action and adventure films
• Children's films
• Children's films
• Cowardly Lion (Fictitious character) -- Drama
• Cowardly Lion, (Fictitious character)
• Cowardly Lion, (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile films
• Fantasy films
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• Friendship
• Friendship -- Juvenile films
• Gale, Dorothy (Fictitious character) -- Drama
• Gale, Dorothy, (Fictitious character)
• Gale, Dorothy, (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile films

Genre

• Fantasy films
• Feature films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Fiction films
• trueMusical films
• trueFilm adaptations
• Juvenile films
• Juvenile works
• Action and adventure films
• Children's films
• trueDrama

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• fre
• eng
• eng

Summary

• The beloved classic in an all-new 75th anniversary 2-disc DVD collection! One of the best-loved movies of all time, The Wizard of Oz (1939) stars Judy Garland as Dorothy, a young Kansas farm girl who is whisked away by a twister to the land of Oz. Accompanied by a brainless Scarecrow, a heartless Tin Man and a Cowardly Lion, Dorothy and her little dog, Toto, follow the Yellow Brick Road seeking the Wizard of Oz, in order that he may grant her wish to return home. - Container
• Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home
• The charming film based on the popular L. Frank Baum novel, Dorothy and her dog Toto, are caught in a tornado's path and somehow end up in the land of Oz. Here she encounters some memorable friends and foes in her journey to meet the Wizard of Oz who everyone says can help her return home and possibly grant her new friends their goals of a brain, heart and courage

Awards note

Academy Award winner, 1939: Best Music, Original Score (Herbert Stothart) ; Best Music, Original Song "Over the rainbow" (music by Harold Arlen ; lyrics by E.Y. Harbung)

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

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Credits note

Film editor, Blanche Sewell ; photography, Harold Rosson ; special effects, Arnold Gillespie ; musical adaptation, Herbert Stothart ; lyrics, E.Y. Harburg ; music, Harold Arlen ; costumes, Adrian

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

• Rating: G; general audiences: all ages.
• CHV Rating: G

Language note

In English or dubbed French; Spanish or French subtitles; English subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)

LC call number

• PS3503.A923
• PN1997

LC item number

• W59 2013
• .W59 2013

NLM call number

DVD

NLM item number

Wiza

PerformerNote

Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, Charley Grapewin, The Munchkins, Pat Walshe, Clara Blandick

Runtime

102

Target audience

juvenile

Technique

live action