We have chosen this classic fairy-tale according to a story by L. Frank Baum for two reasons: one, The Wizard of Oz was one of the first “big” motion pictures to be shot in 4th generation Technicolor, i.e. the technology that brought colour into mainstream cinema; two, the film uses colour as one of the principal vehicles of storytelling. The point is that the film starts out in a single colour shade and only after a tornado sweeps Dorothy into a country that is “not Kansas anymore”, we can see the picture in a full colour spectrum. In doing so, colour separates two different worlds – the ordinary and cheerless on the one hand and the beautiful, colourful and playful on the other. In the latter world, Dorothy befriends the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion, fights against the Wicked Witch of the West and tries to find a path toward the mighty Wizard of Oz who can help her return home.
- Year:
- 1939
- Runtime:
- 102 min.
- Country:
- USA
- Director:
- Victor Fleming
- Screenplay:
- Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf
- Dir. of Photography:
- Harold Rosson
- Music:
- Herbert Stothart
- Editor:
- Blanche Sewell
- Cast:
- Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley
- Production:
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Sales:
- Continental film
Schedule:
12.11.2016
15:00
Kino Nostalgia
17.11.2016
15:45
Kino Lumière (K2)
About the Director:
Victor Fleming
Victor Fleming (1889, La Cañada, CA, USA – 1949, Cottonwood, AZ, USA) ranked among the most prominent filmmakers of interbellum Hollywood. He earned his spurs as a cinematographer and later worked as assistant director, for instance, on Intolerance by D. W. Griffith. He shot his first feature film in 1919 and twenty years later he shot not only The Wizard of Oz but also Gone with the Wind, i.e. two breakthrough motion pictures in the history of colour cinema.