Librarians say 'shhhh' to Oz Cheap, commercial, poorly written, they said. And from their perspective, they may have had a point. "By the standards of fussy librarians and teachers in the 1910s ...

Everyone loves "The Wizard of Oz," except the official arbiters of kid lit: critics and children's librarians. They hate the "Oz" books. Or at least they did.

The Wizard of Oz first appeared in theaters in 1939, then made its first television appearance on CBS on November 3, 1956. By the 1980s, the childhood tradition I enjoyed was drawing last breaths.

Popular Culture The Socialists and Suffragettes of Oz Long before Wicked came along, America's homegrown fairyland was filled with politics. Jesse Walker | 1.3.2025 8:30 AM ...

March 8, 2013 -- intro: As yet another spinoff of "The Wizard of Oz" arrives in theaters, it's almost hard to believe that the original film, which premiered 74 years ago, was, in many ways, a ...

When a movie has been watched as many times as The Wizard of Oz, all sorts of tiny inconsistencies will be discovered. For example, pause the above video of the apple picking scene at the 1:05 mark.

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Additionally, in the same MTV story, Pink Floyd drummer, Nick Mason, joked of the theory, "It's absolute nonsense, it has nothing to do with 'The Wizard of Oz.' It was all based on 'The Sound of ...

Popular on Variety 1.) Yes, It Uses AI The 1939 version of “The Wizard of Oz” was made for a much, much smaller screen than the 160,000-foot one that the Sphere holds.

Pulp fiction "The Wizard of Oz" and its sequels were considered pulp books — like "The Hardy Boys" or the "Tarzan" series — that no library need feel any qualms about omitting.