EDIT: This 2 disc and 3 disc is set for OCTOBER 25th 2005!!!
**For new infomation, head over to page 5 of this thrend..you will see new packaing for 3-Disc edition...
**The Wizard of Oz - Oct. 25, 2005**
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**The Wizard of Oz - Oct. 25, 2005**
Does anybody know if they are making a 2 Disc Special Edition for this movie??? I heard they were but, i don't see a release date anywhere, or heard nothing eles about it???
EDIT: This 2 disc and 3 disc is set for OCTOBER 25th 2005!!!
**For new infomation, head over to page 5 of this thrend..you will see new packaing for 3-Disc edition...
EDIT: This 2 disc and 3 disc is set for OCTOBER 25th 2005!!!
**For new infomation, head over to page 5 of this thrend..you will see new packaing for 3-Disc edition...
Last edited by MICKEYMOUSE on Thu Oct 20, 2005 2:59 pm, edited 17 times in total.
I went to <a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... >Amazon</a> and saw that. The actual release date for the 2-Disc special edition is in October.
<a href=http://www.dvdaficionado.com/dvds.html? ... fan2112>My DVD Collection</a>
Yes, Warner Bros. confirmed in a Q&A that a 2-disc Special Edition of The Wizard of Oz is coming in October, most likely on the 18th. A press release hasn't been issued, yet, but it's been confirmed that along with all of the old features from the old DVD, the new one will have a commentary track by film historian John Fricke, a trivia game, and a documentary on the film's impact on pop culture. Apparantly there will be a ton of other brand new features (as well as a brand new transfer by the folks at Lowry Digital, who also restored Gone with the Wind and Singin' in the Rain), and I suspect we'll find out all about them (along with cover art) within the next three weeks.
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Well, from what I heard, the commentary on this set will be brand-new, though by the same historian who did the LD. Oh, and I would DIE to see the rest of the scenes that were cut. The script that came in the DVD giftset had all of the cut scenes and lines in bold italics, and it's fascinating to see what got the axe. I, personally, believe they all should've been left in (except The Jitterbug, which harms the tension in the forest scene). Everything else apparantly got cut simply for time. I don't think the footage for any of these scenes (except the full Scarecrow dance) still exist, hence why they only appear in still form on the current DVD. I would love to go back in time to the film's premiere and bring back the entire rough cut to the present day.Maerj wrote:Too bad they didn't do it right the first time around. They had the commentary on the laserdisc set. It would be cool if they could find more of the deleted scenes... there was aprox. 30 minutes cut after the test screenings and only a couple of the scenes ended up on the LD and DVD.
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Great news!
I'm so glad this movie is finally getting the treatment it deserves!
I'm so glad this movie is finally getting the treatment it deserves!
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The current single disc DVD from WB has the following deleted scenes (since the footage no longer exists, they're recreated with still photos and the original audio tracks):
* A longer tornado scene. You saw the tornado slowly advance towards the house and begin to pick it up as it moves towards the camera. This was supposed to be the first part of Dorothy's dream after the window hits her. There were also a lot more closeups of the tornado itself and the house spinning.
* The full version "If I Only Had a Brain." This is the only scene from the film whose footage still exists, and it was given the same restoration as the actual film, so it looks great. In the final version of the film, after the Scarecrow sings his song, he simply drops on the ground. In the original version, there was this big dance number involving him bouncing off of the fences and chasing crows that stole his straw. Toto causes a pumpkin to roll down the yellow brick road as the Scarecrow's doing a split, causing him to fly into the air and bounce off of the fences one way, then in a reverse order. Call me evil, but I'd actually like to see this edited back into the body of the film. It was only cut for time, not story purposes.
* "Over the Rainbrow" reprise. After the Wicked Witch of the West locks Dorothu up in the tower and starts the hourglass, Dorothy sings an extremely sad but beautiful reprise of "Over the Rainbow." She begins crying so hysterically that she can't even make herself finish the lyrics, and that's when she drops down and calls for Aunt Em. If you watch the current film closely, you'll notice a continuity error where Dorothy is looking to one side, but then we cut to a closeup of her, and she's looking in a different direction. The song was in between those shots.
* The Jitterbug. You already know of this scene, so I won't bother describing it.
* "Ding dong, the Witch is Dead" reprise. After Dorothy melts the Wicked Witch of the West, the Winkies start singing a reprise of "Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead." We then fade to the Emerald City where we see all of the citizens singing the song in a big spectacle. The Scarecrow carries the Witch's broom trumphantly above his head, and everyone marches down the city up the doors of the Wizard's chamber. (You actually see a split second of this in the film's trailer, as well as some of the song).
In addition, other scenes were cut that didn't make it on the DVD because neither stills nor audio exists for them. These include:
* The Wicked Witch of the West turning the Tinman into a beehive after she appears to him, the Scarecrow, and Dorothy. Just like the Scarecrow proves he has a brain by coming up with the good ideas, and the Lion proves he has courage by going to save Dorothy, this scene was to prove that the Tin Man did have a heart. After the bees that fly out of him try to sting him, they break their stingers and die, which causes the Tin Man to cry over them. The filmmakers covered up this edit by flipping the shot of the trio after the Witch disappears to match the shot of them when they were speaking to her. You can see the mistake, though, because the Tin Man's funnel hat is in the opposite direction it normally is.
* The guard who tells the group "no body can see the Wizard, not nobody and not nohow," and the guard who says, "the Wizard says, 'Go away!'" were intended to be the same person. After the guard leaves them the first time, you saw him turn his moustache from upward to downward before going to talk to the Wizard, making the group believe that there was more than one guard. In the final film, his moustache changing just looks like a result of him crying about his Aunt Em, but it wasn't supposed to.
* The "there's no place like home" scene had a montage to it. Before you saw the ruby slippers and Dorothy's house superimposed over her face, you saw flashbacks of the rest of the film, such as the group dancing down the yellow brick road, the Witch cackling, etc.
* An alternate ending was written (I have no idea if this was actualy shot) where after Dorothy speaks to Aunt Em and everyone there, she discovers the ruby slippers underneath her bed. The slippers would've been colorized while everything else would've still been in sepia tone.
There were other little bits, too, that I read in the script that I can't remember at the moment. I'll take a look at it later and post some more if I find anything more substantial than just cut lines (which there were A LOT of; every scene had at least a line or two removed from it).
* A longer tornado scene. You saw the tornado slowly advance towards the house and begin to pick it up as it moves towards the camera. This was supposed to be the first part of Dorothy's dream after the window hits her. There were also a lot more closeups of the tornado itself and the house spinning.
* The full version "If I Only Had a Brain." This is the only scene from the film whose footage still exists, and it was given the same restoration as the actual film, so it looks great. In the final version of the film, after the Scarecrow sings his song, he simply drops on the ground. In the original version, there was this big dance number involving him bouncing off of the fences and chasing crows that stole his straw. Toto causes a pumpkin to roll down the yellow brick road as the Scarecrow's doing a split, causing him to fly into the air and bounce off of the fences one way, then in a reverse order. Call me evil, but I'd actually like to see this edited back into the body of the film. It was only cut for time, not story purposes.
* "Over the Rainbrow" reprise. After the Wicked Witch of the West locks Dorothu up in the tower and starts the hourglass, Dorothy sings an extremely sad but beautiful reprise of "Over the Rainbow." She begins crying so hysterically that she can't even make herself finish the lyrics, and that's when she drops down and calls for Aunt Em. If you watch the current film closely, you'll notice a continuity error where Dorothy is looking to one side, but then we cut to a closeup of her, and she's looking in a different direction. The song was in between those shots.
* The Jitterbug. You already know of this scene, so I won't bother describing it.
* "Ding dong, the Witch is Dead" reprise. After Dorothy melts the Wicked Witch of the West, the Winkies start singing a reprise of "Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead." We then fade to the Emerald City where we see all of the citizens singing the song in a big spectacle. The Scarecrow carries the Witch's broom trumphantly above his head, and everyone marches down the city up the doors of the Wizard's chamber. (You actually see a split second of this in the film's trailer, as well as some of the song).
In addition, other scenes were cut that didn't make it on the DVD because neither stills nor audio exists for them. These include:
* The Wicked Witch of the West turning the Tinman into a beehive after she appears to him, the Scarecrow, and Dorothy. Just like the Scarecrow proves he has a brain by coming up with the good ideas, and the Lion proves he has courage by going to save Dorothy, this scene was to prove that the Tin Man did have a heart. After the bees that fly out of him try to sting him, they break their stingers and die, which causes the Tin Man to cry over them. The filmmakers covered up this edit by flipping the shot of the trio after the Witch disappears to match the shot of them when they were speaking to her. You can see the mistake, though, because the Tin Man's funnel hat is in the opposite direction it normally is.
* The guard who tells the group "no body can see the Wizard, not nobody and not nohow," and the guard who says, "the Wizard says, 'Go away!'" were intended to be the same person. After the guard leaves them the first time, you saw him turn his moustache from upward to downward before going to talk to the Wizard, making the group believe that there was more than one guard. In the final film, his moustache changing just looks like a result of him crying about his Aunt Em, but it wasn't supposed to.
* The "there's no place like home" scene had a montage to it. Before you saw the ruby slippers and Dorothy's house superimposed over her face, you saw flashbacks of the rest of the film, such as the group dancing down the yellow brick road, the Witch cackling, etc.
* An alternate ending was written (I have no idea if this was actualy shot) where after Dorothy speaks to Aunt Em and everyone there, she discovers the ruby slippers underneath her bed. The slippers would've been colorized while everything else would've still been in sepia tone.
There were other little bits, too, that I read in the script that I can't remember at the moment. I'll take a look at it later and post some more if I find anything more substantial than just cut lines (which there were A LOT of; every scene had at least a line or two removed from it).
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I got my info from a chat transcript WB had, so that's not of much use to you, especially since they didn't say anything that I haven't already said. If you're looking for DVD sites in general to find news from, DVDanswers.com is an excellent site. They update as soon as they get info from various sources. DavisDVD.com and TheDigitalBits.com are also pretty good, too. Of course, if you want the #1 source for Disney DVD news, there's the ultra-snazzy UltimateDisney.com. 
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I was hoping it would be, but apparantly WB is only doing one major classic 4-disc set each year like they did last year with Gone with the Wind, and this year that title will be Ben-Hur. I figured Oz would've been a shoe-in for a 3-disc treatment, but ah well. The spokesperson from WB said that a ton of new features will be on the 2-disc that weren't found on either the current single disc or the old LD, so I'm intrigued all the same.
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There hasn't been any talk, yet, of A Bronx Tale: SE, unfortunately. If you ever want to find out what movies are coming to DVD, go to www.dvdanswers.com and type the movie title in the site's search engine. If nothing shows up, that means the studio hasn't confirmed anything, yet.
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