![]() ![]() The copy I saw was not of the best quality, though, as with most old videotape. 'Click your Heels together three times' is now 'Tap your Heels together three times'. Find your favorite quote from the Wizard of Oz. 'Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain' is now 'Pay no attention to man behind the curtain'. Relive childhood memories with our list of 50 famous Wizard of Oz quotes and lines from Dorothy, the Tin Man, Good Witch, Cowardly Lion and more. This film is a fairly charming stop-motion adaptation of Volkov's version, quite faithful to Volkov's text, which diverges from Baum's in places, though it is much more faithful to Baum than the Judy Garland movie is. 'Now Fly my Pretties, Fly, Fly, Fly' 'my Pretties' isn't said anymore. These sequels were continued after his death, as Baum's were in the US, and there is now a _third_ set of sequels being written, also in Russian, said to be "more Russian and less Soviet" than Volkov's. (The author admits he had a little help from an American named Baum.) Volkov, in fact, went on to write a number of original sequels (they show in spots that he must have read some of Baum's sequels, but chose to write his own, instead). The reason that it is not so well known here is that its title translates as - ahem! - "The Wizard of the Emerald City". Though not an immediate financial or critical success, it became one of the most enduring family films of all time. The joke of course is that they are both metal-mouths. They then walk off together without saying a word, holding hands. He smiles, with his metal teeth reflecting the sunlight, and Dolly (as many people remember it) smiles back with braces on. Alexandr Volkov's 1939 book "Volshebnik izumrudnogo goroda" is not too well known in the US, although in the former Soviet bloc it is generally regarded as a great classic of children's literature. The Wizard of Oz, American musical film, released in 1939, that was based on the book of the same name by L. A cute blond girl with pigtails comes over and helps him out. ![]()
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