DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Commentary by John Fricke and multiple cast and crew members.
Biographies:We Havent Really Met Properly - includes 9 orginal cast biographies
Deleted Scenes:If I Only Had a Brain If I Only Had a Heart Triumphal Return to Emerald City Over the Rainbow The Jitterbug
Documentary:Memories of Oz -2001 TCM documentary
Featurette:The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Storybook Prettier Than Ever: The Restoration of Oz The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz Because of the Wonderful Things it Does: The Legacy of Oz
Music Clips:Audio Vault Includes: Over the Rainbow Munchkinland Medley Rehearsal Recordings Munchkinland Medley Sequence Recordings Munchkinland Medley Voice Tests If I Only Had a Brain Were Off to See the Wizard If I Only Had a Heart If I Only Had the Nerve/We?re Off to See the Wizard Emerald City/The Merry Old Land of Oz If I Were King of the Forest The Jitterbug Over the Rainbow/Triumphal Return to Emerald City Kansas Underscoring Munchkinland Underscoring and more
Music Only Track
Newsreel:Cavalcade of the Academy Awards Excerpt - 1939 newsreel
Other:Another Romance of Celluloid: Electrical Power - 1938 MGM short Leo Is on the Air Radio Promo Good News of 1939 Radio Show 12/25/1950 Lux Radio Theater Broadcast
Photo gallery:Oz on Broadway Pre-MGM Sketches and Storyboards Costume and Make-up Tests Richard Thorpes Oz Buddy Ebsen Oz Comes to Life Behind the Scenes Portraits Special Effects Post Production Deleted Scenes Original Publicity
TV Special:The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Making of a Movie Classic - 1990 TV special
Theatrical Trailer:1939 What is Oz? Teaser 1940 Loews Cairo Theater Trailer 1949 Re-issue Trailer 1949 Grownup Re-issue Trailer 1970 Childrens Matinee Re-issue Trailer 1998 Warner Bros. Re-issue Trailer Texas Contest Winners 1939 trailer
DVD features
The Wizard of Oz DVD released in 1999 was loaded with extra features, but its now safe to throw away that version in all its cardboard-package glory in favor of this new two-disc edition. First things first: All the bonus material from the earlier disc is there (with one small exception). That includes the Angela Lansbury-hosted documentary The Making of a Movie Classic the outtakes and deleted scenes, including Judy Garlands "Over the Rainbow" reprise and the home-movie recording of "The Jitterbug" the sketches and stills and composer Harold Arlens home movies the audio underscores and radio programs the 1979 interviews with Margaret Hamilton, Ray Bolger, and Jack Haley and other items too numerous to mention. (Some text introductions to the features have been replaced by narration by Lansbury, for whatever reason.) Brand-new to the 2005 edition is a sharp restoration using Warners Ultra Resolution process and an accompanying featurette on how its done. The technicians also discuss how the sound was remixed, though that would have been more effective had it included surround-sound demonstrations (the featurette is in 2.0). Other features on the new set include a commentary track by critic John Fricke supplemented by vintage cast interviews (he offers a lot of trivia, and debunks the myth that Shirley Temple was ever close to getting the Dorothy role) profiles of nine cast members and clips of other movies they appeared in (including Toto) a lightly animated 10-minute storybook again narrated by Lansbury 2001 and 2005 behind-the-scenes featurettes and a 1950 Lux Radio Theater broadcast. Oh, and if you were still wondering about the missing material mentioned above--the 1999 disc included one-minute excerpts of three early treatments of The Wizard of Oz. Those excerpts are not included in the two-disc special edition, but the third disc of the three-disc collectors edition includes the complete versions of those treatments and more. --David Horiuchi
Rate Points :4.5
Binding :DVD
Label :Warner Home Video
Manufacturer :Warner Home Video
MPN :D67536D
ProductGroup :DVD
Studio :Warner Home Video
Publisher :Warner Home Video
UPC :012569675360
EAN :9781419810824
Price :$26.98USD
Lowest Price :$50.02USD
DVD Features:
Featurette
Interviews
