The "copyright difficulties" associated with this production were probably because the film was made in the full Technicolor process (which Disney had exclusive rights to use at the time). The film was released in black and white probably because of this issue. Somehow this (terrible quality) color print survived in the public domain. This cartoon will finally be restored in Thunderbean's "Technicolor Dreams & Black and Nightmares," a collection of Ted Esbaugh catoons.
Holy crap!! I used to have this on videotape when I was really young. I totally forgot about it but once I heard the opening music I remembered it. Thanks for putting it up.
I had this VHS floating around for the longest time. I remembered it always pissed me off that there wasn't a lion, or magic slippers, or witches...just singing weirdos, a demented wizard, and a giant egg -_- And yet I watched it :D
I had The Wizard of Oz DVD from the early 2000s, and in addition to the silent film versions they showed part of this. They ended the clip at 2:34 though
Michael Linkovski this was a bonus on the 70th anniversary 4 disc set of the wizard of oz. Along with the silent films and a tv movie about l frank baum called the dreamer of oz.
Ocelotl Chimalpahin I think they were just showing portions of Wizard of Oz adaptations prior to the 1939 movie. I don’t have A copy of the movie currently, they’re all at my parents house in storage and I’m not driving 2 hours just for a UA-cam comment lol
An excellent old classic! BTW: Why do so many of these commenters get upset when an Oz production doesn't follow the exact story they're used to, or doesn't follow the original story from the book? A creative person did their own interpretation of a classic story.....God forbid!
well you know in this Wikipedia page of the list of unproduced Disney animated shorts and feature films, Originally Walt Disney's follow-up to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs but the film rights were lost out to Samuel Goldwyn, who originally intended to make it as a standard musical comedy, with Eddie Cantor as his star. However, Goldwyn ended up selling the rights to MGM in 1937.
Thanks for putting this up, very interesting. I can just see the story meeting - "Forget the Wicked Witch of the West! Our main antagonist should be an egg that won't stop growing!" :)
@crabula No idea. Before the MGM movie, the most popular version was a stage musical that only VERY loosely followed the book. The 1910, 1925, and 1933 versions of "Wizard" are also loose, and show some basis from that musical. I'm cool with doing a bit of a twist, unless it's unrecognizable (like the 1925 one). Today, I have higher standards for Oz adaptations because film is now a fully realized art.
"Toto, don't drink that; it's anti-freeze!" Heh, and here to think there's people who don't think sex goes on in Oz. You wouldn't know it by what happens starting at 3:03. They definitely took liberties, but it's still cute. Poor Dottie never got home!
It is a shame that Eshbaugh chose Oz as a series, it got shot down legally and having a whole series of Eshbaugh films in the vaults would have been great. It's a real loss not having them. Eshbaugh had a powerful sense of the bizarre and surreal as well as the elemental. The film may deviate widely from any other version of WoO, but for Ted Eshbaugh, the Wizard and Oz, were vehicles to work pure cartoon magic, and he created some truly brilliant, and influential, effects using that magic.
I kind of wondered the same thing myself, but this was based mainly on the original play, which also eliminated the Wicked Witch and played the Lion to a mere minimum.
Hahahaha! Imaginez la séance de brainstorming avant de lancer la création: "-Huhu, trop bien l'idée de l'oeuf géant à la fin et du robot qui le casse!! Bing, badaboum! Après on dirait qu'il y avait un petit poussin dedans! Et tout à la fin, on fait quoi? -Et si tout le monde chantait une berceuse pour le petit poussin? -Huhu, trop bien! -Huhu! -Huhu!" XD
The Wizards hat trick beginning at 5:15 to about 5:45 may have been a model for some of the psychedelic look and feel of Disney's Fantasia. In Eshbaugh's Cap'n Cub (here on YT) there is also a brief shot of a traipsing female hippo in a tutu, and that tornado looks similar to the one Disney would use in 1935's Band Concert. While Disney set standards for everyone else, he, and his animators, may have admired and emulated Eshbaugh's vivid imaginative genius for the art of cartooning.
Why, thank you. I put it in to answer a question people who are familiar with Bert Lahr's character in the 1939 movie had. (Look through the comments. We had one person who claimed that the Lion wasn't even in the book.)
Ted Eshbaugh was an independent New York animator who could never generate a regular theatrical cartoon series of his own; this was supposed to be the first of a series {which is why Dorothy doesn't come home at the end}, but, as mentioned, legal difficulties prevented Eshbaugh from producing a follow-up. Because Walt Disney had exclusive rights to produce "three-strip" Technicolor cartoons at the time, Ted had to use the "two-color" process...
My blu-ray pressing of this has an audible "clonk" at about 1:34. I figured it was present on the film itself, but your upload doesn't have it. I'm assuming going by your upload date this came from the deluxe DVD, as opposed to Blu-Ray. I hope my disc isn't faulty... I assume the "clonk" is present on all UK pressings of the Blu-Ray...? Can anyone confirm this?
I've got bad news to tell, the link to a restored version of a 1933 cartoon "The Wizard of Oz" is now gone from UA-cam. Because "Fortune Cookie's" account got suspended due to copyright issues. AAUGH!!!! I hope maybe if "Fortune Cookie" might come back to UA-cam, they should have the fully restored version of this cartoon once again. Tell Jerry Beck to post a restored version of this forgotten 1933 cartoon called "The Wizard of Oz" which is from Thunderbean.
Guess what, "Fortune Cookie" is back on UA-cam after getting its account suspended from the last two or so weeks, and the restored print is back once again, finally!
Wow, this is a KWAAAZY cartoon! But given that it was made in 1933, and was only meant to be a short film to entertain kids before the 'real' show, this is fairly well done, even if it made hardly any attempt to be accurate to the original story.
What a pointless version of the story. I always wondered what Disney might have done with this as a "Silly Symphony." I also wondered about its (lost) potential with Max Fleischer, with Betty Boop as "Dorothy," Bimbo as "Toto," and Koko the Clown as "The Scarecrow."
this always confused me as i had already see the MGM version and there was no wicked of the east or west, no silver shoes or flying monkies wolves or anything.
i remmbered watchg this anime while i was young. but there is another version which i couldnt find. her hair is more to black in colour. i still have the image in my mind. and there are also elephants rampaging in the cities, the witch turn into a rose and died bcuz she was being stomped by the elephants... ok cut the crap, but i couldnt find it!
Wicked? Its based a bit off the books and a little off the movie but not based off either one enough to be acurate. for instance The wicked Witch is older than the wizard and younger than the winged monkeys Also it dosnt feel like Oz
lol if u think there's no sex in Oz just read teh ''Wicked. Life's and time of a wicked witch'' or something like that. There's a full chapter with sex!
Possibly the most pointless cartoon I've ever seen. Fun at times, but it certainly doesn't live up to neither the original novel nor the 1939 musical film. And the story is so amateurishly told... it doesn't even give the (generic) main characters any motivation for going to the Wizard of Oz. Nor is it explained why they decide to become traveling companions; they're just suddenly walking along together, smiling blandly. And the ending... well, I won't give it away, but it sure is senseless...
The "copyright difficulties" associated with this production were probably because the film was made in the full Technicolor process (which Disney had exclusive rights to use at the time). The film was released in black and white probably because of this issue. Somehow this (terrible quality) color print survived in the public domain. This cartoon will finally be restored in Thunderbean's "Technicolor Dreams & Black and Nightmares," a collection of Ted Esbaugh catoons.
That was indeed the difficulty they had! And I really do look forward to Thunderbean's high definition release!
To think that this looks better than the 1962 short film Magic of Oz.
Holy crap!! I used to have this on videotape when I was really young. I totally forgot about it but once I heard the opening music I remembered it. Thanks for putting it up.
this Animated short is now 80 years old!
man this brings me back. I watched this, I remember seeing this around the sme time I used to watch Felix the cat.
I watched this all the time as a kid. It was the headline on a VHS tape. Classic. Thanks for sharing!
I had this VHS floating around for the longest time. I remembered it always pissed me off that there wasn't a lion, or magic slippers, or witches...just singing weirdos, a demented wizard, and a giant egg -_- And yet I watched it :D
I had The Wizard of Oz DVD from the early 2000s, and in addition to the silent film versions they showed part of this. They ended the clip at 2:34 though
Michael Linkovski
Michael Linkovski this was a bonus on the 70th anniversary 4 disc set of the wizard of oz. Along with the silent films and a tv movie about l frank baum called the dreamer of oz.
Michael Linkovski 1:57 how come Dorothy( and toto) met only the tin, and and scarecrow? 2:11 & where's the Lion? ? ?
I wonder why they ended it there? It's public domain so there shouldn't be any issues
Ocelotl Chimalpahin I think they were just showing portions of Wizard of Oz adaptations prior to the 1939 movie. I don’t have A copy of the movie currently, they’re all at my parents house in storage and I’m not driving 2 hours just for a UA-cam comment lol
An excellent old classic!
BTW: Why do so many of these commenters get upset when an Oz production doesn't follow the exact story they're used to, or doesn't follow the original story from the book? A creative person did their own interpretation of a classic story.....God forbid!
Remarkably well-made for its time.
One of the MORE realistic movie/short film/cartoon tornadoes through history.
well you know in this Wikipedia page of the list of unproduced Disney animated shorts and feature films, Originally Walt Disney's follow-up to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs but the film rights were lost out to Samuel Goldwyn, who originally intended to make it as a standard musical comedy, with Eddie Cantor as his star. However, Goldwyn ended up selling the rights to MGM in 1937.
Thanks for putting this up, very interesting.
I can just see the story meeting -
"Forget the Wicked Witch of the West! Our main antagonist should be an egg that won't stop growing!" :)
good to see the oldies are getting preserved
This could hardly be considered an anime... But you're thinking of "Journey Back to Oz."
@crabula No idea. Before the MGM movie, the most popular version was a stage musical that only VERY loosely followed the book. The 1910, 1925, and 1933 versions of "Wizard" are also loose, and show some basis from that musical. I'm cool with doing a bit of a twist, unless it's unrecognizable (like the 1925 one). Today, I have higher standards for Oz adaptations because film is now a fully realized art.
"Toto, don't drink that; it's anti-freeze!"
Heh, and here to think there's people who don't think sex goes on in Oz. You wouldn't know it by what happens starting at 3:03.
They definitely took liberties, but it's still cute. Poor Dottie never got home!
Omg I watched this so much as a kid!!!!
i was left thinking, did i miss when she dropped the house on a witch? But then, this was doing it's own crazy thing lol
It is a shame that Eshbaugh chose Oz as a series, it got shot down legally and having a whole series of Eshbaugh films in the vaults would have been great. It's a real loss not having them.
Eshbaugh had a powerful sense of the bizarre and surreal as well as the elemental. The film may deviate widely from any other version of WoO, but for Ted Eshbaugh, the Wizard and Oz, were vehicles to work pure cartoon magic, and he created some truly brilliant, and influential, effects using that magic.
I kind of wondered the same thing myself, but this was based mainly on the original play, which also eliminated the Wicked Witch and played the Lion to a mere minimum.
oh wow. i wonder if there are any more parts of the series hidden away somewhere. because all the books are great!
Nope, Eshbaugh only made this one.
Really awesome cartoon. Especially for early 1930s.
That is possibly the oddest version of the story I've ever seen.
Hahahaha! Imaginez la séance de brainstorming avant de lancer la création:
"-Huhu, trop bien l'idée de l'oeuf géant à la fin et du robot qui le casse!! Bing, badaboum! Après on dirait qu'il y avait un petit poussin dedans! Et tout à la fin, on fait quoi?
-Et si tout le monde chantait une berceuse pour le petit poussin?
-Huhu, trop bien!
-Huhu!
-Huhu!"
XD
The Wizards hat trick beginning at 5:15 to about 5:45 may have been a model for some of the psychedelic look and feel of Disney's Fantasia. In Eshbaugh's Cap'n Cub (here on YT) there is also a brief shot of a traipsing female hippo in a tutu, and that tornado looks similar to the one Disney would use in 1935's Band Concert. While Disney set standards for everyone else, he, and his animators, may have admired and emulated Eshbaugh's vivid imaginative genius for the art of cartooning.
I remember this cartoon. I watched it when I was about 3-5 years old.
How old are you now if you don't mind me asking?
Love the music at 2:37!!!!!! What a good piece.
Why, thank you. I put it in to answer a question people who are familiar with Bert Lahr's character in the 1939 movie had. (Look through the comments. We had one person who claimed that the Lion wasn't even in the book.)
i remember this...the song of oz playes in my mind even when i hav watched this 15 years ago..or soo...
4:23 I found wicked witch!
Ted Eshbaugh was an independent New York animator who could never generate a regular theatrical cartoon series of his own; this was supposed to be the first of a series {which is why Dorothy doesn't come home at the end}, but, as mentioned, legal difficulties prevented Eshbaugh from producing a follow-up. Because Walt Disney had exclusive rights to produce "three-strip" Technicolor cartoons at the time, Ted had to use the "two-color" process...
Makes you wonder if United Artists (distributor of Disney at the time) was angry about it
At 4:39 are their helmets part of their flesh?
They don't have flesh, they're living suits of armor.
My blu-ray pressing of this has an audible "clonk" at about 1:34. I figured it was present on the film itself, but your upload doesn't have it. I'm assuming going by your upload date this came from the deluxe DVD, as opposed to Blu-Ray.
I hope my disc isn't faulty... I assume the "clonk" is present on all UK pressings of the Blu-Ray...? Can anyone confirm this?
yes he was in the original book. He was in a lot of the old film versions too, (1910 and 1925)
I've got bad news to tell, the link to a restored version of a 1933 cartoon "The Wizard of Oz" is now gone from UA-cam. Because "Fortune Cookie's" account got suspended due to copyright issues. AAUGH!!!!
I hope maybe if "Fortune Cookie" might come back to UA-cam, they should have the fully restored version of this cartoon once again.
Tell Jerry Beck to post a restored version of this forgotten 1933 cartoon called "The Wizard of Oz" which is from Thunderbean.
Guess what, "Fortune Cookie" is back on UA-cam after getting its account suspended from the last two or so weeks, and the restored print is back once again, finally!
Wow, this is a KWAAAZY cartoon!
But given that it was made in 1933, and was only meant to be a short film to entertain kids before the 'real' show, this is fairly well done, even if it made hardly any attempt to be accurate to the original story.
It isn't much in the way of plot, but it's amazing what you'll find on the web these days.
It pre-dates the MGM movie, but notice that Kansas is in black and white, while Oz is in color. Without the lion of Oz, it was odd!
2:35...thats what a soundtrack looks like, folks!!!
I like it better in "Finding His Voice", the Fleischer short.
Carl stalling sure does a great job in this movie with his music, and what pieces are played here some are familiar?
you can see the soundtrack line on the left for a few seconds
Uh... The MGM musical movie "The Wizard of Oz" came out in 1939. This is an earlier, animated version.
Enjoyed this, I realize that the whole story had to be rushed through 10mins or so but elimination the Lion?
@FlamingoKicker In the book, he's a very skilled stage magician and trickster. He can't work "true" magic, but can give the impression of it.
For a moment there I thought the Wizard of Oz was up to no good.
What a pointless version of the story. I always wondered what Disney might have done with this as a "Silly Symphony." I also wondered about its (lost) potential with Max Fleischer, with Betty Boop as "Dorothy," Bimbo as "Toto," and Koko the Clown as "The Scarecrow."
YES! it is! tq so much! XD
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oh my but i couldnt find any videos of the story.. sobsob only the song-video...
but anyway it does helps me =)
Ohhh...that was...special.
I was referring to the Cowardly Lion. Elphiex03 stated he was not in the original Baum book. I merely corrected him.
Just like Mickey Mouse cartoon in 1928 awesome dude
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What, no Cowardly Lion?
Not exactly.
excelent
a master piece
I remeber this one
@RoyalKidofOz Yes, he was in in the book!
@astud218 this isn't an ANIMATION ? what is it then ? anime kinda means animation it's an abreviation :D , he did not specify japanese anime
damn that was bizzare...
you can see where they got the inspiration for the costumes in the film!
althought the tin man wears no spats in the film...
I think he means the person with the hat in the window at 4:25
Where is the cowardly lion???
This is a very rear version of Oz.
this always confused me as i had already see the MGM version and there was no wicked of the east or west, no silver shoes or flying monkies wolves or anything.
There was no cowardly Lion either
wait where's the cowardly lion?
wheres the lion and the witch the munchkins and the songs? :(
where the heck is the lion?
Cute !!!
5:12 DID YOU SEE WHAT I SAW?????
Wheres the lion the witch, galinda, the munchkins ect...
What no lion?
She doesn't look too wicked to me.
why don't they talk?
i remmbered watchg this anime while i was young. but there is another version which i couldnt find. her hair is more to black in colour. i still have the image in my mind. and there are also elephants rampaging in the cities, the witch turn into a rose and died bcuz she was being stomped by the elephants... ok cut the crap, but i couldnt find it!
@Treyskywalker77 are you nuts? that is just an innocent ozian celebrating
hiiiiiilarious!!!
No lion and no witch. Lame
I agree
MooTelevision 3:30-4:10 is agree and where's the Lion and witch? (No wardrobe? Though?
Witches. One was squashed by Dorothy's house.
Cadê os sapatos de rubi?
WTF are you talking about? Yes, he is. I've read THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ plenty of times. He's there. Get your facts straight!
@AngelAteem Same here!
ughh, where is the lion?
@MarvelousLandOfOz yea :/ I was looking ti up all day long...but im not sure why my comment was posted as spam....
Where Is the lion?
This is how adapted the cartoon, the Cowardly Lion wasn’t involved in this
Hmm.
Olha só!
the lion ????
Wicked?
Its based a bit off the books and a little off the movie but not based off either one enough to be acurate. for instance
The wicked Witch is older than the wizard and younger than the winged monkeys
Also it dosnt feel like Oz
Or don't. It's based on the movie, not the books. Possibly one of the most over-rated books I've ever read.
0:28
i have this!
I had this on some weird VHS tape when I was a kid. I like it a lot, but the ending is stupid and pointless, and it always ruined it for me
This isnt creepy at all
* insert jake paul's YUP here
this shit scares me!
lol if u think there's no sex in Oz just read teh ''Wicked. Life's and time of a wicked witch'' or something like that. There's a full chapter with sex!
good cartoon but not at all oz-ish. more resembles the Fleischer Betty Boop shorts with a bit of Van Werner's Tom and Jerry tossed in.
2:37
And Wizard doesn't look too fraud?
@sabs82174 I'm with you!
This was completely stupid and senseless.
And what makes you say that?
@@Taylors_version_from_the_vault Just silly and nothing like the book or the movie.
don't make a lick of sense.
Possibly the most pointless cartoon I've ever seen. Fun at times, but it certainly doesn't live up to neither the original novel nor the 1939 musical film. And the story is so amateurishly told... it doesn't even give the (generic) main characters any motivation for going to the Wizard of Oz. Nor is it explained why they decide to become traveling companions; they're just suddenly walking along together, smiling blandly. And the ending... well, I won't give it away, but it sure is senseless...
@astud218 wow nice introduction, so rude. keep it up