The wizard of Oz.

Resource Information

The work The wizard of Oz. represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Moses Greeley Parker Memorial Library (Dracut). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The wizard of Oz.

Statement of responsibility

a Victor Fleming production ; screenplay by Noel Languley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolfe ; directed by Victor Fleming ; produced by Mervyn LeRoy ; a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture

Creator

• Wizard of Oz (Motion picture : 1939)

Contributor

• Haley, Jack, 1897-1979
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Ryerson, Florence
• Lahr, Bert, 1895-1967
• Bolger, Ray
• Langley, Noel, 1911-1980
• LeRoy, Mervyn, 1900-1987
• Woolf, Edgar Allan
• Burke, Billie, 1885-1970
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Morgan, Frank, 1890-1949
• Fleming, Victor, 1889-1949
• Garland, Judy
• Baum, L. Frank, (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919

Actor

• Bolger, Ray
• Morgan, Frank, 1890-1949
• Lahr, Bert, 1895-1967
• Haley, Jack, 1897-1979
• Garland, Judy
• Burke, Billie, 1885-1970

Film director

• Fleming, Victor, 1889-1949

Film distributor

• Warner Home Video (Firm)

Film producer

• LeRoy, Mervyn, 1900-1987
• Fleming, Victor, 1889-1949

Production company

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Publisher

• Warner Home Video (Firm)

Screenwriter

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

Subject

• Scarecrow (Fictitious character : Baum) -- Drama
• Tin Woodman (Fictitious character) -- Drama
• Tin Woodman, (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Wizard of Oz (Fictitious character) -- Drama
• Wizard, of Oz (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile films
• Scarecrow, (Fictitious character from Baum) -- Juvenile films
• Action and adventure films
• Children's films
• Cowardly Lion (Fictitious character) -- Drama
• Cowardly Lion, (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile films
• Film adaptations
• Gale, Dorothy (Fictitious character) -- Drama
• Gale, Dorothy, (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile films
• Musical films
• Oz (Imaginary place) -- Drama
• Oz (Imaginary place) -- Juvenile films

Genre

• Film adaptations
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Musical films
• Juvenile films
• Drama
• Children's films
• Action and adventure films

Language

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

ZHI

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Photography, Harold Rossen; editor, Blanche Sewell; music, Harold Arlen; lyrics, E.Y. Harburg; musical adaptation, Herbert Stothart

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

• Rating: G; general audiences: all ages.
• CHV Rating: G

Language note

English or French dialogue; English subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing

LC call number

PN1997.W59

LC item number

W59 2013

PerformerNote

Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Billie Burke

Runtime

102

Target audience

general

Technique

live action