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The Wizard of Oz (70th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray]

The Wizard of Oz (70th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray]
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During a tornado in rural Kansas, a young girl is swept away to a magical land and embarks on a journey to see the Wizard who can help her return home

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When it was released during Hollywood's golden year of 1939, The Wizard of Oz didn't start out as the perennial classic it has since become. The film did respectable business, but it wasn't until its debut on television that this family favorite saw its popularity soar. And while Oz's TV broadcasts are now controlled by media mogul Ted Turner (who owns the rights), the advent of home video has made this lively musical a mainstay in the staple diet of great American films. Young Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland), her dog, Toto, and her three companions on the yellow brick road to Oz--the Tin Man (Jack Haley), the Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr), and the Scarecrow (Ray Bolger)--have become pop-culture icons and central figures in the legacy of fantasy for children. As the Wicked Witch who covets Dorothy's enchanted ruby slippers, Margaret Hamilton has had the singular honor of scaring the wits out of children for more than six decades. The film's still as fresh, frightening, and funny as it was when first released. It may take some liberal detours from the original story by L. Frank Baum, but it's loyal to the Baum legacy while charting its own course as a spectacular film. Shot in glorious Technicolor, befitting its dynamic production design (Munchkinland alone is a psychedelic explosion of color and decor), The Wizard of Oz may not appeal to every taste as the years go by, but it's required viewing for kids of all ages. --Jeff Shannon



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Wizard of Oz DVD
I bought this for my 4 year old. She loves it and is able to sit through most of the movie. Some parts a little scary for her and some parts are a little sad but it's short lived. Highly recommend!


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Enjoyable
I enjoyed this movie immensely. You think you've seen it all before. That's true, but it takes on a new meaning each time you watch it as you evolve!


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Please make a new Oz movie, this one is horrible
The original Wizard of Oz movie was horrible. It is very loosely based on the original Wonderful Wizard of Oz book. A new movie series should be made.

Disney changed so many things from the book in this movie it's ridiculous. Here is a list of just some of the things that are not true to the original book.

1. The magical shoes Dorothy gets at the beginning are the Silver Shoes (Not Ruby).
2. The time spent in Oz is real, not a dream.
3. The three farm workers, story teller, and miss gulch, do not appear in any Oz book at all.
4. The Wicked Witch of the East and the Wicked Witch of the West are not related at all.
5. The Wicked Witch of the West does not appear in the book until Dorothy and friends travel to the West on the Wizards orders.
6. They went to the West to kill the Witch, not to take her broom stick.
7. Glinda is the Good Witch of the South, not the North.
8. Glinda does not appear in the book until the final when she tells Dorothy how to use the Silver Shoes to get home.
9. Munchkins all wear blue.
10. The road is called the Road of Yellow Bricks, not the yellow brick road.
11. The journey to the Emerald City is much more dangerous and long than depicted in the movie.
12. No one sings in the book.
13. The Silver Shoes can be removed while still alive.
14. The unnamed elderly Good Witch of the North greets Dorothy when she first arrives in Oz.
15. All witches in Oz wear white, not pink or black.
16. Dorothy was not rescued by the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion at the Witch's Castle, she rescued them after killing the Wicked Witch.
17. Glinda does not come to the Emerald City at the end of the story, Dorothy and friends have to travel to the south to ask for her help.
18. The Wizard appeared in more than one form, not just a giant floating head.
19. The four companions visited the Wizard one at a time, not all at once.
20. The four companions stayed in the Emerald City for several days.
21. Dorothy was the Witches captive for several days, forced to work for the Witch.
22. The Winkies, the Witch's slaves, all wear yellow.
23. The Winged Monkeys are only bound to serve the Witch three times as she owns a cap that controls them. After performing a task they leave.
24. Dorothy takes the cap of the Winged Monkeys after killing the Witch and uses it herself.
25. When using the Silver Shoes magic, Dorothy clicks the heals together three times, and wishes to go home to kansas, she does not say there's no place like home.
26. The Wizards balloon was dismantled after he arrived in Oz, and Dorothy and him built a new one out of green cloth.
27. The Wizard was from Omaha, Nebraska, not an old Kansas man.
28. The Emerald City did not exist when the Wizard arrived in Oz. When he was first made the ruler of Oz the Emerald City was built on his first order.
29. The keeper of the gate to the Emerald City did not deny Dorothy and friends entrance to the city.
30. The Munchkins thought Dorothy was a Good Witch because she wore a faded white and blue checked dress. White being the color of a witch and blue being the color of the munchkins.
31. Dorothy's house landed in a ditch no where near a Munchkin village, and only somewhat near the road of yellow bricks.
32. Dorothy's house never returned to Kansas.
33. All Munchkin houses are painted blue.
34. The gift given to the Scarecrow was not a diploma, but padding in his head to mimic brains.
35. The gift given to the Tin Man was not a heart clock, but a stuffed satin heart put into the Woodsman's chest and then patched over with tin.
36. The gift given to the Lion was not a medal, but a bowl of liquid said to be courage that the lion drank.
37. The Wicked Witch of the West did not have green skin.
38. The Wicked Witch had only one eye.
39. The Wicked Witch melted from water because her wickedness had dried her blood out of her body years ago.
40. The Good Witch of the North gave Dorothy a magic kiss on her forehead that protected her, that is why the Wicked Witch of the West would not harm her.
41. Dorothy was saved from the poppy field by field mice, not by Glinda.
42. When Dorothy returned to Kansas the Silver Shoes had fallen off over the desert surrounding Oz.
43. In the final chapter, Dorothy tumbled into Kansas in a field near her Aunt and Uncle's farm, and a new farm house was already being built by her Uncle Henry.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - For Lovers of OZ
I really enjoyed seeing this Blu-Ray version of Wizard of Oz. I have an older DVD copy but this version is much sharper and this single disc version also has a few nice features as well.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Good even for adults.
Until i bought this for my god son I hadn't seen this movie since I was a kid. It managed to over shadow gone with the wind since they released in the same year, but this movie and restoration is impressive. Do know that it is not in full HD panavision. This movie was filmed in standard def film in the 30's so the quality while amazing is not full 1080p hd. It can't be because it was never filmed as such.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - It's a Keeper!
I'm reviewing the most recent release of the Wizard of Oz Blue Ray single disc. It's from the 70th Anniversary offering, minus all the boxed extras. The Amazon screen aspect ratio is described as 1.77:1, which it's not, it's 1.33:1. This is close to the original screen version which was 1.37:1. You'd need a screen aspect ratio of 1.78:1 to fill a 16:9 HD TV. I saw this when I bought the disk, and was sweating bullets that maybe someone had edited the print to fit - thankfully they didn't. You get the kind of side bars you do with SD TV 4:3 ratios, but it's still not as disturbing to me as pillar boxing or letter boxing. Don't get me wrong, I believe all the original material and directors' intent of films should be preserved in their native aspect ratios, and not whacked to fit a 16:9 HD screen. It's just that I really like a full screen. Oh well - maybe I should have opted for a 60" screen instead of a 42" just to get more width for letter boxed movies - not your problem. The downside is that the bigger your screen, the more noise or pixellation shows up, unless you sit farther away. Oh well.

Back to the disk. It is a gorgeous remastering of the movie that is bright, rich with saturated color, clear, and full of detail. The sound is good too. I did discover one thing that I'm puzzled by. When the home screen comes up, it's the movie only, with no menu that allows for scene selection or the few extra features embedded in the DVD. I have an LG Blu Ray player manufactured in Nov. 2009 and I updated the firmware/software with an April 2, 2010 update, so I should be up to speed. By playing with my remote menu options, I discovered that I can access various language dubbing and the voice-over interviews and narrative about the film creation by selecting English 7, 8, or 9 on the player device menu. This also gives me the option of just listening to the music and sound effects minus dialog with the film, but why anyone would do this, I'm not sure. This is kind of cumbersome to find, and nothing is explained as it would be with a regular disk menu. The back of the disk container shows you what extra material is on the disk (in the very fine print), but I had to play with my machine to access it.

You may notice that with 1080p resolution, some scenes or segments of the film exhibit a very fine grain or texture. Don't panic, it isn't "noise". This is similar to what you get when you look at emulsion films under high magnification. If the restoration team were to try and smooth that out, you would lose detail. It's more noticeable in low light and some indoor shots, and contrasty outdoor shots. I was really looking for digital noise and specks, scratches, etc., but they aren't there - it's really cleaned up. It doesn't detract from the viewing at all. Keep in mind that this film was made in 1938-1939, a long time ago. The original sepia toned beginning of the story is there, instead of the later generations of B&W. This was the first film I saw as a child around 1955 or 1956 at a drive-in theater (it was re-released), and it has remained a favorite. You'd have to have grown up without TV to really have a feel for what it was like when those damned flying monkeys flew off with Dorothy. It scared the heck out of me - as did the haunted forest. However, the film led me to read all of Baum's books (17 or so) when I was 9, and Ruth Plumley Thompson's very good continuation of the series. Some Ozites would say she was a better writer than Baum. You be the judge. I later revisited the series when I re-read it to my daughters in the 1990s, and I discovered a lot of things I missed as a child, such as Baum's views on "modern" education (too much emphasis on athletics in college) and infernal modern music (ragtime versus Mozart). He also had a wonderfully impractical, utopian worldview - you didn't need money in Oz. Your work or trade was equally valuable with other types, so barter was the currency. The army was composed of many officers, and one private soldier. It was well known that officers have the finest uniforms and look best on parade, but it's the private soldiers who fight and die in battle, so if you have only one private, you have no war, but with many officers, you have a great spectacle. The reference I made to athletics comes from book 4 (?) and Professor Woggle Bug who founded the College of Athletic Science - he invented a pill for mundane things like Greek, Latin, mathematics, etc., so students could devote their time to what was really important - baseball, rowing, football, etc. This all before 1920! Nothing has changed, has it? Viva Oz! Enjoy this Blu Ray version, it's a keeper!


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - High Quality of Product named the wizard of Oz
I am very happy with this amaizing video HD, the color was great and sound, good choice for kids and people that wants to remember the movie like a child again. I recommend hundred percent.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Wizard Of Oz Bluray
Linha edição e contem o copy digital, ainda é edição numerada, nota 10. chegou muito atrasado, mas chegou!


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - So Many Great Extras!
I highly recommend this blu-ray version be added to your collection. The amount of extras is greatly overwhelming and the transfer looks amazing!


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - An Effective Remembrance of a Memorable Film
I too have seen this film more times than I can remember but, nevertheless, never fail to be moved and amazed at this marvelous product of 1939 Hollywood.

Since the story is so familiar I will focus on this 70th Anniversary Blu-ray version. First of all the video quality is much better than the 50th Anniversary LaserDisc version that I have used to this point. I'm also appreciative of the audio options which include Dolby TrueHD 5.1 surround sound. I doubt very seriously that I'll be around for the 90th Anniversary version but I can't help but wonder what that format will look and sound like.

There are seven groups of Extra Features available to the viewer including a Sing-Along, Extra Footage, Audio, Behind the Scenes, and On-line. If your Blu-ray disc offers BD-Live, this feature is available by signing up on the player or on-line. I recommend using the on-line alternative as trying to use the player to register, while possible, is rather awkward.

I have watched several of the Special Features and so far they've been interesting with some new material that I had not seen before. I am not that much of a Special Features fan and do not spend a great deal of time checking them out; to me the movie is the focus and this recording of the movie is very good.

For $21.99 it would be hard to go wrong on this disc; try it and I think you'll be glad you did, I know I am.





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