Watch the original "Wizard of Oz” silent film from 1910

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Several of Baum’s original films are on youtube; I’ve posted a couple of them in the past. His animals are very good:

Watch the wonderful Wizard of Oz cartoon that predated the classic film

L. Frank Baum was heavily into the new medium of film, and made several short silent Oz films in the 1910s himself. They are all worth watching, though they tend to get strange in parts. The portrayals of people as animals in particular are quite good, better than the 1939 movie. For example, in this one watch for the kangaroo:

Also worth watching is the one with the vampires (Magic Cloak of OZ)