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The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

Encore: The Wizard of OZ

The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

The History Chicks | QCODE

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.68K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2014

⏱️ 75 minutes

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the show, this is Beckett.

0:04.5

The following episode is an on-core broadcast in honor of the 75th anniversary of the release

0:09.9

of the Wizard of Oz.

0:11.3

Let's call it premiere week, shall we, since at least four theaters in small towns across

0:17.2

America sneaked in a preview before the actual official Hollywood premiere on August 15,

0:23.4

1939.

0:24.4

A little theater in Dennis, Massachusetts, and then another theater in Kenosha, Wisconsin,

0:29.8

showed it on Friday the 11th, and Oconimo Walk, Wisconsin and a recene Wisconsin, showed

0:35.6

it on Saturday the 12th, were they supposed to?

0:39.0

I just don't know.

0:40.8

Suspicious, I'm sure the weekend sales were very tempting.

0:44.0

Nevertheless, some Midwesterners saw it almost a week before those in New York City,

0:49.8

which seems kind of appropriate somehow.

0:52.7

Enjoy the show.

0:54.6

Welcome to the history tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely

0:59.2

coincidental.

1:01.5

And here's your 30-second summary, courtesy of movie reviewer, Rick Palito.

1:09.0

Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets, then

1:14.0

teams up with three strangers to kill again.

1:17.0

The End.

1:19.6

Let's talk about the Wizard of Oz.

1:22.0

But first, let's drop them into history.

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