The wizard of oz

In honor of the film’s 80th anniversary, a look back at a few anecdotes that have not aged as well as the 1939 classic.

Billie Burke as Glinda in The Wizard of Oz (1939)

The Emerald City fromThe Wizard of Oz Original Print by iowajewel

In the event that you’ve got 100 free minutes in the middle of your work day, take the time to watch Of Oz the Wizard, Matt Bucy’s feature-length re-edit of The Wizard of Oz that organizes every word spoken aloud in the 1939 classic into alphabetical order. Even if you don’t, create 100 free minutes. Lie to your boss. Fake a stroke. Claim you’ve got Midwinter Madness. It will be worth it.

The character of Glinda, in “The Wizard of Oz,” is the good witch played by Billie Burke in the classic motion picture. Glinda wears a sparkling, high, star-crested gold crown, as well as a floor-length dusty pink ball gown.

I was privately commissioned to create a painted poster for the 75th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz.The project began with me selecting key iconic moments from the movie and experimented with ways to combine them into one cohesive image. I sketched and���

Emerald City

Judy/Dorothy and Toto/Terry behind the scenes in The Wizard of Oz. 1939

Glinda tells Dorothy to close her eyes, tap her heels together 3 times and say "There's no place like home."

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