Synopsis Includes appendices, sources, an index, and eight pages of color photographs.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1977-11-01 |
Publisher's Note Recreates the filming of the movie, from the first script drafts, through casting, designing, and editing, to final cut, with interviews with people involved and details of happy and not-so-happy moments.
Industry Reviews "A richly detailed, thoroughly researched work filled with illuminating and fascinating information about one of the greatest movie classics of all time. It is also a book that opens up the very heart of movie-making in Hollywood during the 30s and 40s, when men who love movies still had the heart to make them... a wonderful book." Book Jacket
"This book is not just about turning L. Frank Baum's children's classic into a film; it also describes how Hollywood went about making any movie in the sunshine days of the big studios.... Not only are we served by interesting inside glimpses of everything from the evolution of color film to the problem of silently cueing performing animals, we are also offered heaps of anecdotes and gossip.... What a delight this book will prove to all people who adore the film." New York Times - Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
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