Object Details
author
Langley, Noel
maker
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.
Date made
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
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
general subject association
Motion Pictures
referenced
Wizard of Oz
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_682754