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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
(1910) American
B&W : One Reel
Directed by Otis Turner
Cast: Bebe Daniels [Dorothy], Hobart Bosworth [?] [the Wizard of Oz]?, Eugenie Besserer [?] [Aunt Em]?, Robert Z. Leonard [?] [tin woodsman]?, Winnifred Greenwood, Lillian Leighton, Olive Cox, Alvin Wyckoff, Marcia Moore, [?] Fred Woodward? [the mule]
The Selig Polyscope Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The Selig Polyscope Company, Incorporated. / Produced by William N. Selig. Scenario by Otis Turner + [L. Frank Baum], from the novel The New Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. / Released 24 March 1910. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Followed by Dorothy and the Scarecrow in Oz (1910). A nitrate print was recovered in 1983, and was donated to George Eastman House for preservation.
Drama: Fantasy.
Survival Status: Print exists in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House film archive [35mm nitrate positive].
Keywords: Authors: L. Frank Baum
Listing updated: 19 January 2007.
References: Blum-Silent p. 17 : Website-AFI.
Home Video: DVD.
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