Oz Filmography 1940-1969

Compiled by Scott Hutchins

1956

[This was listed in Reel's catalog for $11.98, but they told me it was discontinued and no longer available, and removed it from their catalog.]

1957

Color, c. 48 min.; Released September 11.

Walt Disney Productions/ABC-TV

Based on characters created by L. Frank Baum; M, Songs: Tom Adair, Buddy Baker, Sid Miller; P: Walt Disney; PD: Claude Coats.

S: Walt Disney (himself), Doreen Tracy (Scraps, the Patchwork Girl), Bobby Burgess (Scarecrow), Darlene Gillespie (Dorothy), Annette Funicello (Ozma), Karen Pendleton (Polychrome), Cubby O'Brien (Zeb Hugson), Kevin Corocoran (Moochie), Bobby Van, Doodles Weaver, Gloria Wood, Jimmie Dodd, Tommy Kirk, Tim Considine.

Includes all existing footage of The Rainbow Road to Oz.

1960

The Shirley Temple Show--The Land of Oz [Fantasy]

Color, 55 min, Academy Ratio. Released September 18.

NBC Productions

D: William Corrigan; W: Frank Gabrielson from The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904) by L. Frank Baum; P: William Asher; EP: William H. Brown, Jr.; Musical Director: Vic Schoen.

S: Shirley Temple (Princess Ozma/Tip), Agnes Moorehead (Mombi the Witch), Jonathan Winters (Lord Nikidik), Ben Blue (Scarecrow), Sterling Holloway (Jack Pumpkinhead), Gil Lamb (Tin Woodman), Arthur Treacher (Graves, Nikidik's Butler), Frances Bergen (Glinda the Good), Charles Boaz (Colonel), Mari Lynn (Jellia Jamb), Norman Leavitt (Repairman), William Keene (Royal Army), Lou Merrill (Court Doctor), Mel Blanc.

1961

Tales of the Wizard of Oz [Cartoon Series]

Color, Academy Ratio. c. 650 min.

Videocrafts Incorporated/Rankin-Bass Productions/TV

Addition of New Material and Adaptation by Arthur Rankin, Jr. based on the story and characters of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; P: Arthur Rankin, Jr., Jules Bass, Larry Roemer, Antony Peters, Bernard Cowan; Made at Crawley Films.

V: Star Classics Home Video (as The Wizard of Oz--poor quality, too long for tape with "The Magic World of Oz," "The Witch Switch," "Leapin Lion," and "The Magic Hat," the last of which is incomplete); and The Cake Bake--LP mode, incompatible with my VCR, with "Machine-Gun Morris," "Movie Maid," "The Big Cake Bake," and "Desmond's Dillema," and including the end of Laurel and Hardy's Robinson Crusoe movie.)

Other episodes include "The Raffle," "Be a Card," "The Great Oz Auto Race," "Well Done," "The Do-it-Yourself Heart," "The Hillies and the Billies," "Love Sick,"

1962

Number 13 aka Oz aka The Magic Mushroom People of Oz aka Fragments of a Fate Forgotten aka The Tin Woodsman's Dream [Experimental Film/Avant-Garde Animation]

Color, 180 [according to Walt Lee]/108 [according to Marc Lewis] min. (20-30 min. known to exist, all but 9 [according to Lionel Ziprin]-12 [according to Philip Smith] minutes is test footage; never completed), Widescreen

Film Maker's Cooperative Production

D, W: Harry Smith, from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; P: Lionel Ziprin; EP: Elizabeth Taylor, Arthur Young; M: Charles Gounod (from Faust); C: Stuart Reed; PD: Harry Smith, based on art by W.W. Denslow; Animation: Harry Smith and Joanne Ziprin.

Note: Arthur Young, the primary backer, was found dead in a locked room, so the project, Smith's only commercial film of his fifteen, eventually fell through, though the completed portion was exhibited as The Tin Woodsman's Dream (sic).

1963

[Title Unknown] [RPT speaks about Oz]

Released December 25.

WCAU-TV, Philadelphia

S: Ruth Plumly Thompson

1964

Return to Oz [Animated Comedy/Fantasy]

Color, 55 min, Academy Ratio. Released February 9.

Videocrafts Incorporated/Rankin-Bass Productions/TV

D: F.R. Crawley, Thomas Glynn, Larry Roemer; W: Romeo Muller, based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum; P: Arthur Rankin, Jr., Jules Bass; M: Gene Forrell, Edward Thomas, James Pollack; Animators: Barrie Nelson, Rod Willis, William Mason, Blake James, Don Stearn, Vic Atkinson, Milton Stein, George Rufle, George Germanetti, Angelo Terricone; Backgrounds: Dennis Pike, et al.

S: Susan Conway (Dorothy), Larry Mann (Rusty the Tinman), Alfie Scopp (Socrates the Strawman), Carl Banas (Dandy Lion/Wizard), Susan Morse (Munchkins), Peggi Loder (Glinda/Wicked Witch).

V: Prism Entertainment; Lucerne Media.

1964

Released March 1.

CBS

D: Dean Whitmore; P: Gary Smith, George Schlatter; EP: Norman Jewison; M: Mel Tormé, Harold Arlen; L: E.Y.Harburg; Musical Director: Mort Lindsey; Costume Designer: Ray Agahayan.

S: Judy Garland, Jerry Van Dyke, Jane Powell, Ray Bolger (The Jitterbug).

1965

The Wizard of Mars aka Journey into the Unknown aka Alien Massacre aka Horrors of the Red Planet [Science Fiction]

Color (Deluxe), 88 min.

Karston-Hewitt Organization/American General Pictures/Republic Pictures

D, W, P: David L. Hewitt; Story by David L. Hewitt and Armando Busick, from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum; EP: David L. Hewitt, Joe Karston; AP: Gary R. Heacock; C: Austin McKinney; M: Frank A. Coe (Electroneffects); E: Tom Graeff; Production Manager: Phil Miller; Assistant Director: Ernie Reed; Camera Assistant: Vic Goss [Victor Goss]; Sound: P.W. Miller, William Montgomery; Head Electrician: G.R. Heacock [Gary R. Heacock]; Key Grip: Wayne Anderson; Script Supervisor: Jean Hewitt; Make-Up: J. Lister; Location Manager: John Hewitt; Special Photographic Effects: Cinema Research; Re-Recording: Producers Sound Service; AD: Armando Busick; Technical Advisor: Forrest J. Ackerman.

S: John Carradine (The Wizard of Mars), Roger Gentry (Steve), Vic McGee ("Doc"), Jerry Rannow (Charlie), Eve Bernhardt (Dorothy).

V: Republic Pictures Entertainment, Inc./NTA Home Video, Inc.; Vicious Video (bootleg); Genesis Home Video, Inc. (Horrors of the Red Planet; poor quality, seems bootlegged, particularly considering there is a Millenium Falcon on the box); Victory Audio Video Services (EP mode? August 1995 reissue of Horrors of the Red Planet); Doris Chase (Alien Massacre).

1966

The New Three Stooges--The Three Wizards of Odds [Live Action/Animated Spoof]

Color, c. 23 min.

Cambria Studios/Normandy III Productions/Syndicated

S: Moe Howard (Moe), Larry Fine (Larry), Joe DeRita (Curly Joe).

1966

Fantasía... 3 aka Fantasía aka Fantasia 3 [Three Fairy Tales]

82 min.

Pan Latina (Spain)

D: Eloy German de la Inglesia; W: Eloy German de la Inglesia, Fernando Martin Iniesta; First segment based on "The Little Mermaid" by Hans Christian Andersen; Second segment based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum; Third segment based on "The Three Hairs of the Devil" by Hans Christian Andersen; M: Fernando Garcia Morcillo; AD: Eduardo Torre de la Fuente.

S: Dianik Zvrakowska, José Palacio, Juan Diego, Tomás Blanco, Luis Prendes.

1967

Off to See the Wizard [Animation/Film Showcase]

Color, Academy Ratio. Premiered September 2. 8 September 1967-20 September 1968.

MGM/ABC-TV

P: Abe Levitow; EP: Chuck Jones; Based on characters created by L. Frank Baum.

S: June Foray (Dorothy), Daws Butler (Scarecrow), Don Messick; Frankie Avalon (Jack), Steve Martin (The Pieman), Dan Rowan (Simple Simon), Nancy Sinatra (Jill).

1967

Death Valley Days--The Wizard of Aberdeen [Western/Biopic]

Syndicated

W: Vernon H. Jones

S: Robert Taylor (the Old Ranger), (L. Frank Baum), (Maud Gage Baum).

1967

The Wizard of Oz [Spoof]

Color, Academy Ratio. Released November 23.

Gene London & Co./WCAU-TV, Philadelphia

Loosely based on the book by L. Frank Baum.

S: (Debbie), (sweetheart/Scarecrow), (elderly lady), (Toto), (Glinda).

1969

The Wonderful Land of Oz aka The Land of Oz [Fantasy Musical Adventure]

Color, 72 min, Released November 1.

Cinetron (formerly Fanny Hill Enterprises)/Classic, A Division of Cinecom Corp./Childhood Productions

D, W, P: Barry Mahon, from the book The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904) by L. Frank Baum; M: George Linsenmann, Ralph Falco; Songs: Loonis McGlohon, Alec Wilder ("Did You Come to See the Wizard?" How Do I Brew This Stew?" "I Lost My Heart," "Open Your Eyes," "The Wonderful Land of Oz"); Loonis McGlohon: ("I Would Like to Have a Brain," "I'm a Scaredy Cat," "Wail of the Witch").

S: Channy Mahon (Tip), Joy Webb.

[The songs are according to the "All Music Guide," and may be inaccurate; these are the Banner Elk Oz Park songs by Alec Wilder. One of the songs that definitely is in the film is "Powder of Life."]

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