The Wizard of Oz

Christmas Special! – screening once on December 23 and again in the early afternoon of December 24 – the Film Museum presents the MGM classic The Wizard of Oz (1939).
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and the most well-known and commercially successful adaptation based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.
Notable for its use of Technicolor, fantasy storytelling, musical score and unusual characters, over the years it has become one of the best-known films and part of American popular culture. It also featured in cinema what may be for the time the most elaborate use of character make-ups and special effects.

Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor (USA 1939, 102 min) OV
Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger