The Wizard Of Oz (1925)

Video + Vintage Ephemera

THE WIZARD OF OZ (1925)

Fourteen years before Judy Garland and friends made the version most of us know, Larry Semon adapted, directed, and starred in Hollywood’s first (completed) adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s classic novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, first published in 1900.

NOTE: Frederick Kovert not only co-starred in this film (as the “Phantom of the Basket”) but also was the film’s uncredited costume designer. A few years before founding Kovert Of Hollywood.

VINTAGE EPHEMERA

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MUSIC

• Orchestral Suite no. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067
  Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1738-1739)
  Performer/ Recording by Franz-Peter Müller
  Public Domain Composition + Recording

• Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D major, BWV 1069
  Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1730)
  Performer/ Recording by Franz-Peter Müller
  Public Domain Composition + Recording

• Orchestral Suite no. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067 (reprise)
  Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1738-1739)
  Performer/ Recording by Franz-Peter Müller
  Public Domain Composition + Recording

• Brandenburg Concerto no. 3, BWV 1048
  Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1721)
  Performer/ Recording by Franz-Peter Müller
  Public Domain Composition + Recording