#The Wizard of Oz in Pictures

[uwmspeccoll]

Unfolding Oz

Inspired by L. Frank Baum’s original classic, The Wizard of Oz in Pictures is a delightful, tiny accordion book created by book artists Peter and Donna Thomas and printed in 2001 in an edition of 26 lettered and 75 numbered copies in Santa Cruz, California. The couple have worked collaboratively since 1977, creating over 500 handcrafted books. The Wizard of Oz in Pictures was commissioned for the International Wizard of Oz Club, and is reproduced from a one-of-a-kind of the same name by Donna Thomas that used her own handwritten text and watercolor illustrations. Donna Thomas writes:

It tells the story in one continuous illustration (follow the Yellow Brick Road!) that is folded as an eight-panel accordion. I chose to use our nested accordion binding to complement the theme of movement in the story, from the flying house to the flying monkeys, and the cloth binding material was inspired by Dorothy's gingham dress.

Our copy is an artists' proof and is a gift of the artists. You can view nearly all of Peter and Donna Thomas's artists books in our online catalogue raisonné of their work.

View more posts with work by Peter and Donna Thomas.

-Melissa, Special Collections Graduate Intern

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

[dazzelmethat]

Finished all the Oz books. 70 hours for the price of one book on libro.fm. My favorites were the glass cat Bungle and the Patchwork girl Scraps.

I had such vivid imagery in my head for them while I was listening. I tried to capture the feeling here. It was interesting trying to find other references for how they were drawn .. and how to convert it into what my imagination was like.

[toiletpotato]

Hinton Battle was the original Scarecrow in The Wiz, Mabel King was the original Evillene* (in both the stage show AND the movie), and Tasha Thomas was the original Aunt Em.

*Evillene is the name of the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wiz, so this is a picture of two Wicked Witches of the West meeting (!!!!!!!!!)

BONUS:

[kaleidoscopekai]

wheat and wheat byproducts 🌾

[creekumz]

I love them so much😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 My BABIESSSSS THEIR SO IN LOVE

[brokehorrorfan]

Phantasia Cult, a new horror merch company, just launched its first drop with The Witch, Midsommar, Hellraiser, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Twin Peaks, and The Wizard of Oz.

Two-sided designs are up for pre-order on T-shirts ($18) and long sleeves ($22) until September 14.

[smashorpassgilf]

Glinda the Good Witch of the North from The Wizard of Oz (Billie Burke was 54 when she played her)

[fitsofgloom]

それはある日の魔法使いです！

[hatsterical]

I think I have huge anxieties online when posting, been neglecting posting art anywhere but instagram-

Anyway, here is some shit I haven't posted!! (WARNING some of it is bloody and stuff.)

"Hoy, Fuck!"

"It's beyond me"

"Man Eats Rat ON CAMERA NOT CLICKBAIT"

Bel in Prince Edward pose from Enchanted

Emperor new and groove

My clown woman gets to be a wicked witch

That's all for now because... Uh. I'm too lazy to post the rest yet, lol.

[welcometogrouchland]

Finally saw Wicked today. I fear it is, in fact, actually all that and a bag of chips. Like it is genuinely that good

[wayne-bruces-artblog]

Chapter Covers!

[whump-thoughts]

I am fully aware that I am going insane from Wizard of Oz hyperfixation, but HEAR ME OUT! The wizard of oz could be used for GREAT platonic yandere material.

Something something, somehow Glinda is absent and so Dorothy does not figure out how she can get home after The Wizard's hot air balloon goes away, but at least she has her new 3 best friends who would totally not sabotage her attempts to get back home behind her back!... yeah Things Get Bad TM.

[papasbaseball]

Btw yes a horror wizard of Oz or wicked would be INCREDIBLE AND VINCENT WOULDVE SLAYED IT👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💚💚💚💚💚

Next fic adventure: rewrite the Wizard of Oz as a horror novel (/j because I'm definitely going to need to take a break and write some shorter stuff post wwg)

Lions and Tigers and Bears could really pop off in the horror setting.

[megamagica1234]

People discussing the cutting room floor of wicked

Im starting to realize oz has a very bad history with the cutting room floor

Like its not unknown that the wizard of oz itself had a lot of scenes cut, few of which survive

Return to oz? Ditto…a lot of the cut scenes are on the dvd, some never made it passed the planning phase,like the ruby slippers being the ruby magic belt instead. Some points made it into the novelisation, others in the comic adaptation on the website. Hell one of the draft scripts is currently still available on the internet archive at the moment.

The wiz is the only one im not outwardly sure of, I know more of the why the cast is the way it is but less of the full history for the movie.

Lost in oz, tim burtons version? Like its on youtube or was, but i swear i saw it on tv it just never got picked up

Legends of oz: Dorothy’s return, honestly has a big cutting room floor for what became a producers style controversial animated film…for what its worth its a decent condensation of the book its based on. Could make a great cult film in the future.

Legends of oz is the one i followed extensively, and honestly considering they included cut lines in the making of on the blu-ray, kept stuff in the trailers until it got closer to theater release, and a lot of the concept art was out in the open for a while.

I dont know too much about any other oz projects or if they even lost content…like i know the 52 episode anime had little scenes cut when they were dubbed for english, like a lot of the episodes are i wanna say a minute or so longer in the subtitle versions but they’re little things that feel inconsequential to the plot.

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Return to Oz (1985, Walter Murch)

02/02/2024

Return to Oz is a 1985 film directed by Walter Murch, an unofficial sequel to the famous film The Wizard of Oz directed by Victor Fleming and produced by MGM in 1939. The film earned an Oscar nomination for best special effects.

Several months have passed since the events of The Wizard of Oz, and Dorothy Gale is melancholy because she continues to do nothing but dream of her magical adventure, and that Uncle Henry and Aunt Emma don't believe her.

Later, Dorothy discovers to her horror the Yellow Brick Path in ruins and, running along it with Billina, finds the Emerald City, Grey, desert, largely destroyed and with petrified inhabitants, including the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion.

The film was produced by Walt Disney Pictures without the collaboration of MGM, or Warner Bros., the studio that currently holds the rights to the 1939 film.

The film's screenplay is based on L. Frank Baum's second and third novels, The Marvelous Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz, both sequels to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

George Lucas, Murch's friend and colle8, had to personally intervene, guaranteeing the studio that he would act as executive producer or even director in case of problems.

The soundtrack of the film was entrusted to the composer and musical writer David Shire, also know for numerous TV soundtracks, theater musical and for many films including Saturday Night Fever. The entire musical sequence from Dorothy's Theme to the Rag March of the final scene is accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra.

The Italian dubbing of the film was directed by Renato Izzo, Gruppo Trenta.

On home video, in Italy, the film was released in VHS format by Walt Disney Home Video in 1986. The DVD was released in 2013 in the Disney Family Classics series.

Writer Joan D. Vinge adapted the film's screenplay into a novel.