The wizard of Oz

Resource Information

The work The wizard of Oz represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in District of Columbia Public Library System. 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

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

Actor

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

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

Publisher

• Warner Home Video (Firm)

Screenwriter

• Woolf, Edgar Allan.
• Ryerson, Florence.
• Langley, Noel, 1911-1980

Subject

• Good and evil -- Juvenile films
• Films
• Scarecrow (Fictitious character : Baum)
• Cowardly Lion (Fictitious character)
• Fantasy films
• Children's films
• Friendship -- Juvenile films
• Tin Woodman, (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile films
• Oz (Imaginary place)
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Friendship
• Musical films
• Tin Woodman (Fictitious character)
• Oz (Imaginary place) -- Juvenile films
• Gale, Dorothy, (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile films
• mwt 09/04/15
• Scarecrow, (Fictitious character from Baum) -- Juvenile films
• Gale, Dorothy, (Fictitious character)
• Good and evil
• Fiction films
• Cowardly Lion, (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile films
• Feature films
• Juvenile works
• Wizard, of Oz (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile films
• Wizard of Oz (Fictitious character)

Genre

• Feature films
• Juvenile works
• Films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Musical films
• Children's films
• Fantasy films
• Fiction films
• Juvenile films

Language

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

Summary

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

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

PerformerNote

Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, Charley Grapewin

Runtime

102

Technique

live action