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Film #077 - His Majesty, The Scarecrow of Oz (1914)

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

Viewed March 18, 2006
His Majesty, The Scarecrow of Oz is the only of the Oz Film Company’s silent films based on the work of L. Frank Baum that was apparently directed by Baum himself.
The basic plot of the original book, The Scarecrow of Oz, remains intact, but characters have been shifted around to […]

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Film #056 - The Magic Cloak of Oz (1914)

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006

Viewed February 25, 2006
The Magic Cloak of Oz is one of a series of “Oz” based films that L. Frank Baum produced around 1914. It is based on Baum’s novel Queen Zixi of Ix, which originally was not connected to Oz (although its characters later appeared in proper Oz books).
It tells the remarkable story […]

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