In place of the solitary Soldier with the Green Whiskers, the movie provides a quartet of long-bearded guards. The film has elements of spectacle, with live horses and camels, and a marching troop of chorus-girl soldiers. In the Emerald City, the Wizard of Oz crowns the Scarecrow as the king of Oz, before flying away on his balloon, leaving Dorothy behind.
She captures Dorothy and friends with her lizard soldiers Dorothy melts her with a bucket of water. The story's villain is the witch Momba, a combination of Mombi and the Wicked Witch of the West. The Travelers meet the Lion and Tin Man in the usual way. Once in Oz, Glinda enlarges Toto to be a more effective protector for Dorothy - meaning that Toto too can be played by a child actor in costume instead of a dog.
The two plus Toto are blown to Oz riding a haystack, along with Imogene the cow and a donkey (human performers in animal costumes). Oddly, Dorothy meets the talking living Scarecrow while still in Kansas, pre-twister. With the company going defunct eight years later in 1918, the short film was lost for several decades until a copy was found in 1983. Yet Selig chose to made a single-reel version (thirteen minutes running time), so that the story is intensely compressed and somewhat incoherent. While scenes from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz had been filmed by Selig and featured in Fairylogue, the 1910 project was the first attempt to adapt the whole story. As part of Baum's efforts to settle his debts, the Selig company won the right to make a movie of the author's best-known work. The project left Baum owing thousands of dollars to his creditors, including the Selig Polyscope Company, the Chicago firm that had made the film segments employed in the show.
Frank Baum's famous book - though it was made without the author's active involvement.įairylogue and Radio-Plays, Baum's 1908 multi-media stage show, had been an artistic success but a financial failure. The 1910 film version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was the first movie adaptation of L. The final scene from the 1910 production of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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