Fifty Before '50: THE WIZARD OF OZ (1910)
by JBNo, not the 1925 version of the tale directed by and starring funnyman Larry Semon, the EARLIER version from 1910! Gather your donkeys and cows and come along. As readers of this column can attest, I love what can only be called “the archeology of the cinema,” digging past all known artifacts to find the real history of film... buried under the floorboards of some outhouse in the south of France. Today, we turn our attention to a film adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz that was made only ten years after the book was first published, making this film 116 years old. (Funny, it…
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