This is a film that will just be something that stays around forever. It is great to look back on a film that was made in the thirties, and compare it to the movies made in this day and age. It's going on sixty-two years since it was first released and yet, it is timeless. Who wouldn't want to take a journey to the magical land of Oz? I think that it is terrific how well this movie has held up over the years.
This is a wonderful film for the whole family. Now it is shown on a couple of different networks quite frequently. I remember watching this movie when they would air it once a year on CBS a few years back. Network airings in the 1990s were uncut and not time-compressed the film aired in a 2-hour, 10-minute time period. CBS, which had shown the uncut version of the film in 1956, and again from the films first telecast until 1968, finally started to show it uncut again beginning in 1985, by time-compressing it. By the 1980s, the other excised shots included: the film's dedication in the opening credits, continuity shots of Dorothy and Toto running from the farm, establishing shots of the cyclone, the aforementioned tracking sequence in Munchkin Land, the establishing shot of the poppy field, and tiny bits and pieces of the trip to the Wicked Witch's castle. Also according to Fricke, more wholesale cutting of the film took place when CBS regained the TV rights in 1975. According to film historian John Fricke, these cuts started with solely a long tracking shot of Munchkin Land after Dorothy arrives there.
As the amount of commercial time on network television gradually increased, more scenes were cut.
From 1968 to 1984, on NBC-TV and CBS-TV airings of the film, the film was edited to sell more commercial time.
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