Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Broken Blues

Frank Baum directed several versions of his tales of Dorothy and Oz, and when he moved them to the stage and screen, quickly realized a little revising was going to be needed to bring his visions to life.

Revising, music, most excellent "muppeteers", lots of flying rigs, scenery, and oh yeah, dancing. This is a portion of the 1910 "Wonderful Wizard of Oz", which seems to have been cut down not in terms of telling the story, but in terms of what the editor thought was cool. This was typical of the time, film was still new and amazing people was more important than telling a story.

This also was filmed in the watching a play style, where the camera just sits as if in the audience. Which is fine, they seem to be using sets from the plays.

Oh yeah, and did you think break dancing was new? Watch the Scarecrow, it's dark and hard to see, but go baby go!

Why is there a cow and a donkey? I have no clue. Probably because the actors were paid by the month or quarter, and damnit, they're going to work!

Back for this foray into Oz are the Flying Monkeys. With Mike's having to shift from drum work to rhythm instruments, they simply rearranged what they were doing and concocted this unusual and "broken" blues.

Rain stick, clackers, a cardboard box, it's all in there going against the Roland GR-20 guitar synthesizer, making its best "I am a Moog MG-1" run yet.

It goes along well with the oddball Wizard of Oz offering, you can find the movie at the Internet Archive, of course. Then you can find out if Dorothy and her merry crew of misfits manage to defeat the wicked Mombi!

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[BerlinLynn]

Awesome!

[tenac23]

WTF.