Through the latter months of 1914, L. Frank Baum and his business partners continued their battle to take the author’s stories to the cinema-going public, although sadly with little success. After failing to find distribution in America, their next production was shipped to England, cut up for kiddie films, then eventually glued back together…more or less. The company’s third release found favour with the critics but not with the public, dealing the fledgling film studio a mortal blow…
HIS MAJESTY, THE SCARECROW OF OZ (1914)
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#1 by Ed on April 11, 2009 - 10:26 am
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Is it just me, or does the Tin Woodsman look more like just a deranged clown with an axe who wears his underwear on the outside? Granted, it does manage to make clowns even creepier than they were to begin with.
Also, for some strange reason Mombi looks like Mrs. Deagle from Gremlins to me. Check out the photo of her with the tin man (pre-beheading) and tell me you can’t see her bitching at Zach Galligan about his dog.
#2 by lyzard on April 11, 2009 - 10:12 pm
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Or Mrs Deagle looks like Mombi? Denslow’s illustrations are pretty famous.
Clowns…[*shudder*]…witches only wish they could be that scary.
#3 by JessicaR on April 12, 2009 - 3:26 am
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Will you be covering Return to Oz? I’m really digging these reviews, you don’t see a lot for silent cinema.
#4 by JessicaR on April 12, 2009 - 3:27 am
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…or the Turkish Wizard of Oz, your Turkish Exorcist piece was a hoot.
#5 by lyzard on April 12, 2009 - 4:36 pm
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The Turkish Wizard Of Oz is, of course, an ultimate aim. Just at the moment, though, I’m halfway through the 1925 film, and I’m feeling a little Oz-ed out. (If you’ve seen that version, you’ll know why!)
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