The Wizard of Oz: 70th Anniversary Edition - Preview
Preview by Jack Foley
THE Wizard Of Oz has charmed and thrilled audiences for seven decades with its timeless music and truly heart-warming story. Now, courtesy of Warner Home Video, you have an opportunity to be a part of the film as never before.
On November 2, 2009, the unforgettable songs and the characters adored by generation after generation come to life in a sing-along extravaganza that all the family can enjoy time and again.
With enduring messages for all – friendship, working together, helping strangers and, of course, there’s no place like home – this essential Christmas gift purchase will be available in feature-packed DVD or Blu-ray box sets or as a single-disc DVD, ensuring the film has a place in everyone’s hearts – and homes.
A special 4-discs box Collector’s Edition version will also be available at Harrods. Set in a sumptuous velvet-effect outer box and including 10 art cards and a 16-page booklet, the box not only contains the film in standard and sing-along versions, but also hours of added content including documentaries and interviews.
Based on a 1900 children’s novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum, The Wizard Of Oz received five Academy Award nominations on release.
It won the Oscar for Best Original Score and Best Original Song and also gained a special award for Outstanding Juvenile Performance by a 4’11”, 16-year-old girl who quickly earned her reputation as “the world’s greatest entertainer”.
Put Judy Garland and Over the Rainbow together and you have, as her daughter Lorna Luft says: “The most perfect song in one of the most perfect movies ever made.”
And with this release’s brand new sing-along feature, you can now join in and be right in the action: dreaming of beyond the rainbow, wishing for a brain, being the King of the Forest and following the Yellow Brick Road.
Moreover, with a Blu-ray release that includes nearly four hours of all-new, never-before-available bonus features, there has never been a better time to enjoy The Wizard Of Oz in all its glory.
This must-have anniversary edition also brings the visual splendour of The Wizard Of Oz to the Hi-Definition world of Blu-ray Disc.
The film has been entirely re-mastered and the result is a release that is sure to make The Wizard Of Oz: The 70th Anniversary Edition a fantastic addition to the Blu-ray format.
The Blu-ray contains both standard definition and Blu-ray formats in addition to hours of bonus features on a third disc.
The film has grown since its 1939 release into a beloved phenomenon that almost no other movie can rival.
Oz made a new kind of history with its network television premiere in the USA in 1956: nearly 45 million people tuned in, marking the beginning of an annual tradition now sacred on both sides of the Atlantic.
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