4.6 • 8K 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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