Script for <i>The Wizard of Oz</i>
date: label: Date made
content: 1938
name: label: author
content: Langley, Noel
label: maker
content: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Typescript draft for the 1939 motion picture <i>The Wizard of Oz</i>. 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 <i>The Wizard of Oz</i> 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."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Culver City
topic: label: general subject association
content: Motion Pictures
label: referenced
content: Wizard of Oz
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: National Treasures exhibit
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content: Movie Collection
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Kendrick, Kathleen M. and Peter C. Liebhold. Smithsonian Treasures of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Turner Entertainment Co.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0395.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0395
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0395.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: book, script
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 11 in x 1 in; 21.59 cm x 27.94 cm x 2.54 cm