Otis Turner - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - 1910 (part 2)

[kissmeirish21]

So what if I carried a piece of uranium around in my pocket for a year. Fuck you guys!

[ITzHaZzA666]

i bet the people who watched it when it first came out where wondering what the hell was going on. i mean, I'M confused, and i know the plot.

[PoketoaTheFirefox]

Dorothy = my great great aunt. Fweeness. :D

[poofacemom]

lol random black guys with camels? i love this version

[only257]

cute and clever silent film!

[yondaimedbz]

Interesting. I never saw a movie any earlier than the 1920's. kinda hard to follow what's going on though.

[JRL10040]

I loved this so much. Thank you for posting it.

[only257]

agreed jrl10040 love this silent film, check out the magic cloak of oz that a cute and immigative silent film

[pandanot10]

I grew up loving the stories that L.Frank Baum wrote as well as the Judy Garland classic. I had heard that there was a silent version of the story done by the author himself! I've looked for this for a very long time! How wonderful to finally be able to view it...I heard that it no longer existed.

[An805Guy]

From what I read on another copy of this on YouTube and IMDb, this version did not involve Mr. Baum at all. It was based on a musical stage version from 1902.

[moooonkeygrl]

My great...great(?) uncle was the producer for this. Weird to see. Film has come a long, long way.

[greanfinisher]

The times were very hard in 1910. Illiteracy was high as well as the mortality rate. The middle class had not yet been born. Many children left school to work in factories under deplorable conditions. This movie reflects that era as evidenced by the poor display of costumery, props, stunts and special effects. Even taking into account that moving pictures was still in its infancy, the capital required to produce an otherwise memorable classic was simply not there to be had at the time.

[Terangeree]

Greanfinisher, are you sure that the middle class was yet to come into existence? I would have thought that European-style societies (including the USA) have had a middle class at least since the days of the Hanseatic League.

[greanfinisher]

Terangeree: The term "middle class" is an abstract term which is open to many interpretations as to its inception and evolvement into American life. A middle class did exist in the early 1900's but this designation was restricted primarily to white-collar workers such as factory supervisors for example. The emergence of labor unions was instrumental in creating the middle class that we know of today with good paying jobs.

[undergroundman1993]

It's true, my great grandfather worked in a coal mine when he was nine years old. The child labor laws didn't come into effect until 1914.

[greanfinisher]

undergroundman1993: Thanks for sharing with us that interesting bit of information on your great grandfather. As per my great grandfather, I know that he was a supervisor for a now defunct gypsum mine. He may have started working there when he was still a child but I would have to examine the personnel files of the mine to verify that.

[beardedwolf]

It's almost 100 years old, I'm sure it looked fantastic back then lol.

[RIPFILMS]

wow this is old!

[marshallwillenholly]

Pre Titanic disaster and WWI.

[RIPFILMS]

6 months later lol