The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Illustrated First Edition) 100th Anniversary OZ Collection

We're talking about Dorothy Gale, the character in L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz book series.

And that's just if you're reading the book. She also in the book befriends and accompanies three men, none of whom are traditionally masculine or manly.

And there's even a part in the book, well, not the Wizard of Oz, but one of the other books from the Oz series where another character tells her, Dorothy, you have some queer friends.

And she says, the queerness doesn't matter so long as they're friends.

We're talking about Dorothy Gale, the character in L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz book series.

Yeah, and that's just if you're reading the book. She also in the book befriends and accompanies three men, none of whom are traditionally masculine or manly.

And there's even a part in the book, well not the Wizard of Oz, but one of the other books from the Oz series where another character tells her, Dorothy, you have some queer friends. And she says, the queerness doesn't matter so long as they're friends.

We're talking about Dorothy Gale, the character in L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz book series.

And that's just if you're reading the book. She also in the book befriends and accompanies three men, none of whom are traditionally masculine or manly.

And there's even a part in the book, well, not the Wizard of Oz, but one of the other books from the Oz series where another character tells her, Dorothy, you have some queer friends.

And she says, the queerness doesn't matter so long as they're friends.

But the point is this, is whether it meant, no, they certainly didn't mean queer as in gay. They just meant strange, unusual.

We're talking about Dorothy Gale, the character in L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz book series.

Yeah, and that's just if you're reading the book. She also in the book befriends and accompanies three men, none of whom are traditionally masculine or manly.

And there's even a part in the book, well not the Wizard of Oz, but one of the other books from the Oz series where another character tells her, Dorothy, you have some queer friends. And she says, the queerness doesn't matter so long as they're friends.

In the book, those ruby slippers, and I guess they're talking about the Wizard of Oz, yes?

So in the book, those ruby slippers were actually silver and were meant to represent the silver standard, not a ruby standard. The movie changes silver slippers to ruby.

I saw, thank you, audience archivist Judy, Judy S. She's been with us forever. That was actually my mother's name. It's not a lot, you don't meet a lot of Judy's. That was a popular name after Wizard of Oz and Judy Garland that you don't see a lot of Judy's anymore.

What a great movie. Wizard of Oz. Honestly? Yeah.

What don't you like about Wizard of Oz? I don't like that when they get to the wizard.

He's just a little weak man behind a curtain. I understand the message, but I want him to be more badass.

Glenda the beautiful good witch from Wizard of Oz.

It's instead of taking an ordinary person, and putting them in an extraordinary place, take an extraordinary being and put him in a really ordinary place, you put him in the suburbs. And I didn't really think about that until this most recent watch of like, just how simple but perfect idea that is for a story and for a movie and how it kind of then functions as the bookend to Wizard of Oz, as far as like, you can have this you can have this wonderland, you can have Oz, you know, this, this fantasy world.

They can now have Judy Garland, for example, read the book, *The Wizard of Oz*, and they've licensed that.

I was thinking of the munchkins from The Wizard of Oz when Peter Dinklage said that no dwarfs should be allowed to be in the movie because the munchkins from The Wizard of Oz, they were all little people and they all talked for years afterwards about how they made this community and a lot of people had met and fallen in love and everything. And Peter Dinklage wanted to deny them.

it was the flying monkeys from Wizard of Oz.

L. Frank Baum based the title character from The Wizard of Oz on Keller.

L. Frank Baum based the title character from The Wizard of Oz on Keller.

Well, I mean, I would just say, hey Joe, instead of saying no we can't, let's say yes we can. Let's be constitutional. We got a constitution. And yes we can because he reminds me of that guy in the Wizard of Oz, you know, when you pull back the curtain, it's a really small dude.

124 years ago today, an unknown author published a new children's book. The novel featured a cowardly lion, tin man, scarecrow and a wicked witch. Here is the story behind the wonderful wizard of Oz.

Creator L. Frank Baum based the characters on experiences from his childhood. In his twenties, the author's niece Dorothy became gravely ill and died from congestion of the brain. Baum then compiled his personal history into a story.

He settled on the name Oz as a reference to the newly formed nation of Australia. The book was published on May 17th, 1900.

The original run consisted of 10,000 copies by the 1930s, 5 million wizard of Oz books had been sold in the USA alone.

apparently Ozma... is like some princess... and longs... to be... a boy

...when I saw "The Wizard of Oz".

...if you have to tune out now hey look I forgive you.

...I was obsessed with Billy Burke, Glinda.

...and from there I started I rented like "Dinner at Eight" and like got...

What made you want to say that?

What made you say that? Well, the I guess When I saw the Wizard of Oz, okay This is a big one for a lot of people for a lot of people and um, if you have to tune out now