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Bebe Daniels (center).
Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.
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The Wonderful
Wizard of Oz
(1910) United States of America
B&W : One Reel
Directed by Otis Turner
Cast: Bebe Daniels [Dorothy], Hobart Bosworth [?] [the Wizard of Oz]?, Eugenie Besserer [?] [Aunt Em]?, Robert Z. Leonard [?] [the tin woodsman]?, Winnifred Greenwood, Lillian Leighton, Olive Cox, Alvin Wyckoff, Marcia Moore, [?] Fred Woodward? [the mule]
The Selig Polyscope Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The Selig Polyscope Company, Incorporated. / Produced by William N. Selig. Scenario by Otis Turner + [L. Frank Baum], from the novel The New Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. / Released 24 March 1910. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Followed by Dorothy and the Scarecrow in Oz (1910). A nitrate print was recovered in 1983, and was donated to the George Eastman Museum for preservation.
Drama: Fantasy.
Survival status: Print exists in the George Eastman Museum film archive [35mm nitrate positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Authors: L. Frank Baum
Listing updated: 8 March 2011.
References: Blum-Silent p. 17 : Website-AFI; Website-GEM.
Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.
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