Script for The Wizard of Oz

author

Langley, Noel

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation

Description

Typescript draft for the 1939 motion picture The Wizard of Oz. This draft of the script by primary screenwriter Noel Langley is dated between May 4 and 6, 1938, and it contains original corrections and additions in pencil and ink pen. The challenge of adapting L. Frank Baum's book The Wizard of Oz to film began with the screenplay. From March 1938 to March 1939, more than a dozen people, most uncredited, worked on writing and revising the script. On one page of this script, Langley notes the change from black and white to color. In this famous scene, Dorothy steps out of her farmhouse into Oz and says to her dog Toto, "I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

Location

Currently not on view

Credit Line

Gift of Turner Entertainment Co.

1938

ID Number

1987.0395.01

accession number

1987.0395

catalog number

1987.0395.01

Object Name

book, script

Physical Description

paper (overall material)

Measurements

overall: 8 1/2 in x 11 in x 1 in; 21.59 cm x 27.94 cm x 2.54 cm

place made

United States: California, Culver City

Related Publication

Kendrick, Kathleen M. and Peter C. Liebhold. Smithsonian Treasures of American History

National Museum of American History. Treasures of American History online exhibition

Related Web Publication

http://americanhistory.si.edu/treasures

Title

The Wizard of Oz script

National Museum of American History

subject

Motion Pictures

Wizard of Oz

Record ID

nmah_682754

Usage of Metadata (Object Detail Text)

CC0

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-056c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa