00:01When The Wizard of Oz was first reissued in 1949, MGM created two different trailers to promote the film.
00:08The first simply cut down the original 1939 preview.
00:13It's interesting because it's made up of alternate takes, different versions of familiar moments in the movie itself.
00:21There's even a glimpse of one of the deleted musical numbers, the triumphal return to the Emerald City.
00:30Many, many miles east of nowhere lies the amazing land of Oz, a magnificent empire created in the mind of
00:37a man who wrote a great book about it.
00:40Like wildfire in the wheat field, the fabulous tale of The Wizard of Oz spread from town to city to
00:46nation to the entire world.
00:49Although The Wizard of Oz has captivated the children of four generations and fired the imaginations of those youthful adults
00:55who have never grown old,
00:57although ten million copies of the book have reached eager hands and eager hearts,
01:02no one has dared the towering task of giving life and reality to the land of Oz and its people.
01:08Every delightful character of L. Frank Baum's classic is now reborn.
01:13Every glorious adventure has been recaptured and painted with a rainbow.
01:17The celebration in Munchkinland, the flying monkeys, the rescue of Dorothy, the castle of the witch, the palace of Oz,
01:28and Dorothy's strange journey to the Emerald City to find the wonderful wizard of Oz himself.
01:35We're on to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz.
01:39We're on to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz.
01:43We're on to see the wizard.
01:55The wonderful ways of love
02:36The wonderful ways of love
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