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4.3.4 Victor Fleming, the main director.

The musical score and incidental music were composed by Stothart, also featuring Clive Brook in the film. The songs were written by Edgar 'Yip' Harburg and composed by Harold Arlen. Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, but others made uncredited contributions. The Wizard of Oz is the source of many quotes referenced in contemporary popular culture. It was among the top ten in the 2005 BFI (British Film Institute) list of '50 films to be seen by the age of 14', and is on the BFI's updated list of '50 films to be seen by the age of 15' released in May 2020.

It is also one of the few films on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register. Library of Congress as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the National Film Registry for being 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant'.

#Wizard of oz happy farmer in the forest movie#

The 1956 television broadcast premiere of the film on the CBS network reintroduced the film to the public according to the Library of Congress, it is the most seen film in movie history. While the film was considered a critical success upon release in August 1939, it failed to make a profit for MGM until the 1949 re-release, earning only $3,017,000 on a $2,777,000 budget, not including promotional costs, which made it MGM's most expensive production at that time. It did win in two other categories: Best Original Song for 'Over the Rainbow' and Best Original Score by Herbert Stothart. It was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, but lost to Gone with the Wind, also directed by Fleming. Directed primarily by Victor Fleming (who left the production to take over the troubled Gone with the Wind), the film stars Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale alongside Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr and Margaret Hamilton.Д¬haracterized by its use of Technicolor, fantasy storytelling, musical score, and memorable characters, the film has become an American pop culture icon. Frank Baum's 1900 children's fantasy novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Widely known as one of the greatest films of all time, it is the most commercially successful adaptation of L. The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical nightmare fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. For other films, see Adaptations of The Wizard of Oz В§ Film.