THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) FIRS TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION 

❤️BIBLE VERSES OF THE DAY❤️ 1 JOHN 1:5-9 5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. 8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

My mom watched this movie in the theater when it was released. She said the entire audience made an audible gasp when the story made the transition from b&w into color. It was something that nobody ever dreamed of. Today, we would consider this a special effect, but back then, it was like a miracle.

Back in the 1960s, before cable or satellite TV, when there were only three major television networks, this movie was shown once a year, and it was advertised heavily so that families could tune in and make an evening of it. It was a major TV viewing experience comparable to watching the Super Bowl today. That's why The Wizard of Oz is such a beloved part of Americana. It is a prime example of wholesome entertainment that is woefully absent today. I for one miss those special yearly airings. It brought families and friends together. Those were very special times.

Regarding effects, the scene at 6:10 where Dorothy walks into Munchkinland was actually filmed in 'color' but the bedroom and Dorothy's dress were re-made all in sepia-tones. "Dorothy" is an extra wearing a sepia dress-she opens the door, moves out of camera, hands Toto to Judy Garland who then walks into the now-colored landscape. This is the kind of craftsmanship movies pioneered pre-digital age.

The Professor Marvel actor, Frank Morgan, was actually multiple people in Oz. He played the man behind the curtain, the big head projection of the wizard, the horse carriage driver, the guard who lets them in to Emerald City, and the guard who lets them in to see the wizard.

As an older adult, I appreciate reactions to the true classics. I wince when reactors say they are doing an old movie that was made only a few years ago. There is a quality of movies made during the age of the great studios that simply could not be matched after their collapse.

Margaret Hamilton’s iconic witch character/portrayal became the witch all others have been compared to since. If you experienced her as a young kid for the first time back in the day, you never forgot her.

Judy Garland had an AMAZING voice. ❤

The actress playing the Wicked Witch was actually a very nice lady. She was afraid her performance would be too scary for children so she visited schools to show them that she wasn't really scary.

This was on TV once a year when I was a kid and it was a family event. We'd all sit in front of the TV with the lights off with blankets to hide behind when it got scary. I finally saw it in a theater when I was in my 39s and it was electric! Cheers at all the best moments. I never think of this as a musical, but as a fantasy adventure with music. Yes, the scarecrow, tin man and lion songs sound the same because the characters are all singing the same song, in a way. And notice that throughout the adventures, the scarecrow was always the one come up with idea, the Tinman was the most sentimental and when he had to be, the lion was brave. They all did have it within them. I'm glad you saw that as the message of the film.

Props to you for reacting to such a classic movie. Extra props for your creative touch while reacting, i.e. matching the color scheme of the movie with your video image.

This movie is INFAMOUS for all the stuff that happened during the making of it. Back then, the actors REALLY suffered for their art.

In the book, she really was gone to a faraway land, and she was gone for months. I'm surprised you've never seen this movie: when I was a kid in the '70s, it used to show on network TV every year (the first commercial break came right after "Poor little kid. I hope she gets home all right.").

The moment when Dorothy enters into OZ in glorious technicolor is one of the most magical moments in all of movie history. Thank you for a great reaction!

A fun trivia fact is that some of the actors who played Munchkins also played Oompa Loompas in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 32 years later in 1971.

My niece watched this a few years when she was about 8 and afterwards she said "So, if this was all a dream, then Toto does get recaptured and killed." On a side note ... before there was internet, VCR or cable television, there was standard TV with only three national networks: ABC, NBC and CBS. CBS would air this movie once a year around March/April and it was a family event in our house. We'd sit and watch the movie and do bathroom breaks during the commercials. Happy times.

You remember in The Avengers where Nick Fury comments about “flying monies” and Captain America gets excited and says “I understood that reference!” ? Well, now you know where it’s from! 😃

One of my favorite movie musicals of all time. I LOVE the way Judy Garland sang "Somewhere Over The Rainbow". I recommend the 1946 classic Gilda starring the fabulous Rita Hayworth. Backstory: If you look close, you can see Dorothy bury half her face into Toto's fur. That's because Judy couldn't keep a straight face when Bert Lahr started blubbering as The Cowardly Lion and would get slapped for it.

OMG......32K.......U been moving!!!!! Feel like yesterday when I was what....your 3,000th sub I think....proud of your growth and wow....first time watching WoO.....trippy

The Wizard of Oz messed me up as a kid....had me asking my parents how did they feel when color came to the world lol

So cool to see your surprise at the end when you realized that the three farmhands were the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion. Used to blow my mind when I was a kid. Great reaction. Definitely watch Return to Oz at some point -- it acts like a sequel to this, but was made 50 years later in a totally different style and takes much more from the original Oz books.

I have so many memories of watching this movie as a kid with my grandmother. One of my favorite movies ever lol.

My exposure to this movie was as a child (No, I wasn't alive in 1939). I find it surprising so many young adults today have apparently never seen really old (pre-Star Wars) films.

It was a dream. The Scarecrow, Tin Man, Lion, Wicked Witch, and Oz were all people she knew from real life. After Dorothy wakes up from being knocked out by the window, she sees Miss Gulch riding her bike suddenly turn into the Wicked Witch riding a broom. When she returns from Oz, she's still in bed waking up from her concussion from the window hitting her. The song of the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion WAS the same song. Each of them sang their own verse to describe their desire. All the other songs were very unique songs of their own.

Great reaction. FUN FACT - When they fell asleep in the poppy field and it started snowing, they used Asbestos for the snow. In 1939 nobody knew of the dangers of Asbestos

1. If you start playing side one of the album "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd when the MGM lion roars the third time it syncs up with what's happening in the movie until shortly after the color kicks in. 2. Buddy Ebsen was supposed to play the tin man, but he was allergic to the dust they used on his face, so since he was under a lifetime contract with MGM they eventually offered him "The Beverly Hillbillies" and the rest is history. 3. Sadly, Judy Garland died in 1969 from barbiturate overdose. 4. GOOF: The Nebraska State Fair has always been in Lincoln, not Omaha. 5. In 1979 they made "The Wiz" featuring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson among others. 6. If you want to know about the hanging body the story is in IMDB trivia. It's reliable. 7. Speaking of Pink Floyd and this movie before the times, but how much acid was used to come up with this?😏

When I was growing up (shortly after the Earth cooled but before cable TV) this was shown every year at Thanksgiving. The same station would show "It's a Wonderful Life" at Christmas and "The Ten Commandments" at Easter.

The three actors playing Dorothy's companions were all veteran song-and-dance men from the last days of burlesque, which really shows in their physicality and acting. Thanks for the memories!

You changing to color along with the movie is the CUTEST detail lol

How, at your age have you NEVER seen « the Wizard of Oz »????????????????????????? Professor Marvel told Dorothy her aunt was sick so she’d go home… you couldn’t understand that????????

Tin man, scare crow and lion are the guys from Kansas 😂

27:11 yes children, you must eventually leave home otherwise you'll find yourselves living in your parents basement at age 30. Now skedaddle. Make a life for yourselves. 😁 Reaction⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Selection ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The flying monkeys scared the crap out of me as a kid.

My favorite movie. As far as the music, think of the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion songs as different verses of the same song. It was meant to be that way. If you watch again with that in mind, I think you'll hear that the other songs don't sound like the 3 in 1 song. Great reaction! Thanks for the Bible verses!

If you haven’t seen it yet you will love the 1978 movie The Wiz. In my opinion it’s very underrated and just as iconic as this is. They don’t make movies like these anymore unfortunately.

I read a lot of the Oz books as a child, and while Oz in the movie is clearly a dream, in the books it is real and we get to learn a lot more about it. For example, we learn that all four quadrants originally had wicked witches, but the ones in the north and south were overthrown. As far as I know, we never learn anything more about the wicked witch of the south, but in the second book, The Land of Oz, we learn that Mombi, the wicked witch of the north, while no longer in power, is still around, living in the standard wicked witch's cottage in the woods, along with a boy named Tip whom she keeps as a slave. Tip, we eventually discover later in the book, is actually Princess Ozma, the rightful ruler of Oz, whom Mombi kidnapped and transformed into a boy. When Tip is rescued and learns the truth, he reacts to the idea of being restored to his true identity as any little boy would: "I don't want to be a GIRL." But he is transformed back into Princess Ozma, who is returned to the Emerald City and rules Oz for the rest of the series. Four books later, Dorothy, after a series of temporary visits in the three previous books, settles permanently in Oz along with her aunt and uncle and Toto. At some point (I don't recall in which book) Dorothy gets into a conversation with someone about the fact that all the animals in Oz can speak, including those who come originally from somewhere else. Dorothy doesn't see how this can be true, pointing out that Toto can't speak. At this point Toto corrects her and tells her that he can. When Dorothy asks why he never spoke before, he says that he simply never had any occasion to do so. By the way, the movie fuses two characters into one: the good witch of the north, who is never given a name in the book and who sets Dorothy on the way to the Emerald City via the yellow brick road, and Glinda, who is the good witch of the south and who first appears only very late in the book. Unlike the witch of the north, Glinda remains a major recurring character throughout the series, and Princess Ozma's wisest advisor.

Glinda is a master manipulator. She literally put those damn slippers on a young girls feet and let a wicked witch hunt her down. Then she has the audacity AFTER letting her do the dirty work of taking out witch #2 to tell her she wouldn't have believed her if she said the slippers had the power to take her home! 😐😂

The Lion (Bert Lahr, 1895-1967) was my favourite character in this film❗️ He put heaps of effort into his performance 👀👍❗️

The producers originally conceived the movie with a very different cast. They wanted Shirley Temple to play Dorothy, but couldn't arrive at a deal that satisfied her parents and her agent. They wanted W.C. Fields to play Professor Marvel/the Wizard, but he felt like being difficult, apparently just for the fun of being difficult, so they couldn't make a deal with him eirher. Even so, it was Fields who recommended his friend Frank Morgan to take the role instead. An actress named Gale Sondergaard was originally chosen as the Wicked Witch of the West, but she had it in mind to play a slinky, sexy witch, and didn't like the idea of being uglied up with makeup, so she passed. Margaret Hamilton, who did play the Witch, used to be a much-loved kindergarten teacher before turning to acting. The Tin Man was going to be played by Buddy Ebsen, and the makeup artist had a revolutionary idea for using very fine-ground aluminum dust to give his face a metallic quality, instead of the silvery face cream that was the industry standard. Unfortunately, while preparing for a makeup test shot, Ebsen accidentally inhaled a cloud of this aluminum dust, it coated the insides of his lungs, and he began to suffocate. He had to be rushed to the hospital, and spent several weeks in an iron lung, slowly expelling the dust bit by bit. This forced him to miss the start of principal filming, and Jack Haley was hired as his replacement. As a consolation prize, when he recovered Ebsen was given the role of the captain of the Witch's guards, the one who says "You killed her" after the Witch is melted.

Ray Bolger the scarecrow, and Dick Van Dyke of _Chitty Chitty Bang Bang_ and Disney _Mary Poppins_ were two dancers who were "hoofers." They danced classically like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, but they did it flamboyantly, even comically. That was called hoofing. They would take pratfalls, too.

Great reaction. If you get a chance to rewatch the movie, pay attention to the part before Dorothy goes to Oz. Ray Bolger, the man who plays the scarecrow says: 'thinking you don't have any brains'. Bert Lahr, the man who plays the cowardly lion says: 'Have a little courage'. Jack Haley, the man who plays the tin man says: 'someday they're going to erect a statue for me'. Dorothy's mother says: 'Dorothy stop imagining things'. And finally Dorothy says to Mrs. Gulch 'you wicked old witch.' Also, look for vintage Lay's potato chip commercials and you'll find Bert Lahr promoting them.

When I was young , people use to watch this whole smoking pot , on 🍄 or LSD while listening to Pink Floyd's " Dark Side Of The Moon " album . Same thing for " Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory ".

You noticed the accents. Regional accents have changed, plus Hollywood studios trained actors in accents created to sound more "glamorous". So Dorothy's is a very musical Hollywood sound, Tin Man's is New York with English vowels. Scarecrow is all-out MidWest and Lion is all-out Queens for comic effect. The Wizard...touches of English over Southern to give him some class? 😄

I forget but there are either 15 or 25 volumes in the Wizard of Oz books. You should also do The Wiz with Lena Horne, Diana Ross, Nipsy Russell, etc. It is the Black version of the Wizard of Oz. I love it also.

Here are two quotes from famous people that, I think, say what this story is all about: “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” - Albert Einstein “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.” - Sigmund Freud”

When the witch tries to take the red shoes from Dorothy's feet and sparks fly from her hands,...have you ever looked at the album cover for "Eldorado" by the band, Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) ?

This movie isn't far off from the world we live in today. It's about mindless drones following incompetent leaders because on almost nothing. Dorothy killed two witches by accident, the north witch kept buckets of water all over her castle, the wizard was a fake hiding behind a curtain who couldn't even operate a hot air balloon, and the good witch needed/used magicless Dorothy to stop her evil sister.

The lion is the guy at the beginning who got Dorothy out the pig pen

Fun fact: in real life, the daughter of Judy Garland (Dorothy) ended up marrying the son of the Tin Man (Jack Haley).

They nodding off in the poppy field ( heroin comes from poppy plants ) but woke up real quick when that snow showed up 😂 In return to oz ( 1985 ) they bring dorothy to a mental hospital to get shock treatment because the think shes crazy . She escapes back to Oz and the emerald city is all post apocalyptic . its a wild movie .

Actually when first released. this movie was not that well liked. However it has gradually become a much loved American classic movie. Also, "Over The Rainbow" became an American song classic..

I've seen this movie at home maybe a hundred times. I finally saw it in a theatre this year, and it's amazing on the movie screen. So many details I never caught before.

Notice that the movie doesn’t just CUT to color. Dorothy opens the door from black-and-white with color on the other side of it and then she walks from the black-and-white house and into color all in one shot. They use lighting to make it appear she is changing from black-and-white to color as she steps out. Nowadays they’d just use CG, but back then they had to get real tricky and creative with special shots like that.

In the middle there, you said something like, " That was too easy." The original novel was longer.. more complex, more difficult. The movie studio simplified it, mostly for time reasons.

Out of all the reaction videos I've seen on The Wizard of Oz, you went the extra mile and made your camera shot in black and white during the Kansas scenes. Nice touch.

Judy Garland was 17 in the movie, O.ded 30yrs later sad People in the industry would keep them drugged to work then drugged to sleep.

I seen this movie when I was a kid and still love it at 40 years old 😊

Apparently the lady who played the Wicked Witch was once a Kindergarten teacher… Can you imagine? I bet she was lovely in real life.

Heh, mentioning Michael Jackson... check him out as the Scarecrow in The Wiz! :D

I recommend Victor/Victoria. It has Julie Andrews. It’s my fave movie

Good catch, most people I knew had to watch a couple of times to catch on. Viral 🫂 from Alberta Canada 🇨🇦

There is the 1974 song entitled "Tin Man" with one line "But Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man That he didn't, didn't already have."

New subscriber here, and i love your content. now that you have seen "The Wizard of Oz" as a woman of color you need to see "The Wiz" I can guarantee you will love it

fun comparison...checkout The Wiz 1978

I have always enjoyed this movie from my child hood up now im gray headed and still watch it every time i run across it

What kind of deprived upbringing did you have that you've never seen The Wizard of Oz?

In the books, Oz is a real land. In the movie(s)? **shrugs wildly**

"Oz never did give nothin' to the Tin Man, that he didn't... didn't already have". -America

The heart is not judged by how much you love, but how much you are loved by others...

Everyone should watch this at least once in their life. God bless you. Love your channel.

In the movie Oz is a figment of Dorothy's imagination but in the original book Oz was a real land that she was taken to in the twister

After landing in a foreign land a girl from America immediately kills a women and then recruits 3 men and hunts down her sister and kills her too.

When Dorothy steps into Technicolor still gives me chill bumps.

Dorothy gave the lion a Will Smith smack 😂😂😂😂

Now you can watch The Wiz! (The black version)

Baum wrote many books about OZ. Easy but fun reading.

You should read the original books by L. Frank Baum! Quite a bit different from the film (for many reasons), but still an interesting world he created. It might also be interesting to see OZ movies made in the silent era! I also recommend "Journey Back to Oz" from 1972. It's animated and Dorothy is voiced by Liza Minnelli - Judy Garland's daughter. There's also "Return to Oz" (1985) which is a bit closer to the books and much darker in tone. It's also interesting that most everyone from Dorothy's life had a lookalike in OZ - except for her grandparents and there was no counterpart for Glinda in the real world. We also don't know what became of Elmira Gulch after the tornado. "Professor Marvel" was three different characters in OZ - the carriage driver who had the horse of a different color, the palace guard, and the wizard himself. I am not sure of this was intentional on the part of the writers to make the wizard someone who hid his identity and kept people away from the castle by playing these roles, or if they were playing a prank on the audience.

😎👍 If you enjoyed this, then you'll probably also enjoy "Alice In Wonderland" (1951). I've noticed that you've been catching up on classic Disney cartoon features anyway, so I'm sure you'll eventually get around to it. Like the land of OZ, it's ambiguous whether or not "Wonderland" is a real place or just something that only exists in Alice's dreams. 🦁

As some have commented - this is the classic "chick" flick. Two women fight to the death over a pair of shoes.

The flying monkeys scared the heck out of me as a kid. Classic flick!

Have you seen The Wiz w/ Michael Jackson and Diana Ross?

The other half of the movie is that they spend all this time and effort thinking that there is some higher authority who can fix things, and yet he is no more powerful than they are.

Exactly. The villain used a little girl as a hitman instead of helping her

L Baum, the author said this was inspired by the Great Author. The Yellow Brick Road, maybe ,they say represent the Narrow path. There's alot of spiritual truths in this.

In the movie, Oz was a dream, but in the book, it was an actual place

The book is way better with lots more story and characters. And I love the movie

younger reactors seem to want to pick it apart. Just go along for the ride.

The witch was ,was a obstacle the was seemed to big too big to overcome,....but in fact it was Easley accomplished but simple means, .....water, .....we often make our problems more difficult than they really are, ......Thats the message

You should check out 1978 The Wiz. It's a retelling of the Wizard of Oz by Motown. Diana Ross is Dorothy, Michael Jackson is the Scarecrow. Nipsey Russell as the Tin Man, Ted Ross as the Lion, and Richard Pryor as the Wizard.

It wasn't just water that melted the witch. She explains as she is melting that only as good a girl as Dorothy could defeat her wickedness, or something like that. Jack Haley, who played the tin man, had a son who was married to Judy Garland's daughter, Liza Minnelli, in the 70's.

After seeing this over 10,000 times I just thought …. Why would the sheriff or police not go to the farm themselves to take the dog as opposed to letting Gulch take the dog on her own accord….. unless she was a deputized citizen? But that is the problem with watching any movie so much. You tend to see cracks in the story that you missed on first time viewing and just getting into the story

I've seen this movie ten million times over the last 54 years.....and I never noticed the Scarecrow carrying a gun! 😄 Thanks! What a great time I just had watching this reaction! Isn't it so much fun? Love it. Hey, another super duper entertaining, visually dazzling classic: "Singin' In The Rain"! I think you would do an amazing job with that one! PS: The Scarecrow song, Tin Man song and the Lion song ARE all the same song! Just with different lyrics!

Back in the day (1960s, 70s), Wizard of Oz was on TV as a special/event every year.

Still to this day one of my favorite movies. That witch used to scare me when I was a kid. Love your reactions. 😊🥰

Margaret Hamilton was badly burned when a trap door failed to open on time when the fire ball engulfed her. They had to postpone shooting her parts for several weeks until she recuperated. Also the midgets were almost impossible to control. They knew they were irreplaceable and would get drunk all the time. You can actually see some of them stagger around during filming.They had Judy Garland hopped up on amphetamines because of the long hours on stage.A timeless and great film but with some tragic after effects.

In the movie it was a dream, but in the book she really goes to OZ

Yes that's him and the other guys with Dorothy are those guys who treated her wrong at home in Kansas

So wonderful when a child watches this for the first time. Really loved your reaction.

First saw this as a kid when I was 5 or 6. It used to be on TV once a year early in the spring. The flying monkeys gave me nightmares - I do know that. But it was a great visual and had a solid message. Most times, your best support is right there at home. And if your support isn't at home, find friends, neighbors or other relatives that accept and respect you as you are. No need to run away as that's rarely a solution and often leads to more problems.

this was my comfort movie growing up; i watched it whenever i was sick. my grandmother even made matching dorothy and tin man costumes for my granddad and me one year for halloween. i haven't gotten a chance to watch this movie in ages though so i'm happy i can watch it here with you today