On 16mm at my sister's birthday party in 1963

Rating: 10/10 (29 March 1999)

My introduction to this truly great film was in 1963 aged 4, when my father hired the 16mm print to show on his 16mm projector at my sisters' 8th birthday party. A girl at the party, Caroline Theobald, screamed in terror so violently when the wicked witch appeared that my father had to stop the projector and the parents had to be called! My older brother and my 2 sisters only saw the entire film the next day! I have now seen the film about 30 times and for me it is the greatest of all family films!