Hey, are you in the mood to watch The Wizard of Oz? Don't worry if you don't have 103 minutes. This one's only thirteen and a half and it's a surprisingly crisp transfer of the 1910 version. Amazingly, it was not the first time L. Frank Baum's story was filmed but it seems to be the earliest which survives today.
Wikipedia, which as we all know is never wrong about anything, says "It was created to fulfill a contractual obligation associated with Baum's personal bankruptcy caused by The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays, from which it was once thought to have been derived. It was partly based on the 1902 stage musical, though much of the film deals with the Wicked Witch of the West, who does not appear in the musical." There were several sequels filmed by the same outfit but they are considered Lost Films. Anyway, here you go…
