The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays
The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays | |
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Directed by | Francis Boggs Otis Turner |
Written by | L. Frank Baum |
Produced by | William Selig John B. Shaw, Jr L. Frank Baum |
Starring | L. Frank Baum Romola Remus Frank Burns George E. Wilson Joseph Schrode Burns Wantling Grace Elder |
Music by | Nathaniel D. Mann |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Selig Polyscope Company First National Pictures (1925 re-release) |
Release date |
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Running time | 120 minutes (3600 m) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays was an early attempt to bring
After First National Pictures acquired Selig Polyscope, the film was re-released on September 24, 1925.[1]
Although today seen mostly as a failed first effort to adapt the Oz books,[1] The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays is notable in film history because it contains the earliest original film score to be documented.
The film is lost, but the script for Baum's narration and production stills survive.[1]
Michael Radio Color
The films were colored (credited as "illuminations") by Duval Frères of
Original film score
The production also included a full original
Adaptation
It was based on Baum's books The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz and John Dough and the Cherub, with intermission slides showing previews of Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz,[1] which was not sold in stores until near the end of the run. Francis Boggs directed the Oz material and Otis Turner directed John Dough and the Cherub. Baum, in a white suit, would step behind the screen and into the film, pulling his actors off to appear on stage with him. Surviving production stills depict a very large cast of Oz characters. Romola Remus was the silver screen's first Dorothy. Notably absent from this production is the Woggle-Bug, who had been the title character of a failed musical three years prior.
Cast
(listed in the order credited in the program)
- L. Frank Baum: The Wizard of Oz Man, who will present his very merry, whimsical and really wonderful Fairylogue and Radio-Plays
- Frank Burns: His Majesty the Scarecrow. Also as The Rubber Bear, a Good Natured Thing
- George E. Wilson: Nick Chopper, the Tin Woodman and as The White Rabbit, Diffident, but not Shy
- Wallace Illington: Tik-Tok, the Machine Man
- Bronson Ward, Jr.: Jack Pumpkinhead, whose Brains are Seeds
- Paul de Dupont: The Nome King, a Master of Enchantments
- Will Morrison: Tip, a transformation, but a real boy
- Clarence Nearing: Prince Evring of Ev
- The Wizard (only a Humbug)
- Joseph Schrode: The Cowardly Lion and John Dough, the Gingerbread Man (Joseph also portrayed Imogene the cow (a replacement of Toto) in the earlier stage adaptation[3])
- Hungry Tiger
- Rooster, Visitor at the Emerald City
- Hottentot, Visitor at the Emerald City
- Daniel Heath: The Buccaneer, Visitor at the Emerald City and as Tertius, an Islander
- Joe Finley: Hans Hoch, Visitor at the Emerald City
- Dudley Burton: A Courtier, Visitor at the Emerald City
- Madame Toussaud, Visitor at the Emerald City
- Romola Remus: Dorothy Gale of Kansas
- Maud Harrington and Delilah Leitzel: Princess Ozma of Oz
- Glinda the Good, a Sorceress
- Josephine Brewster: Mombi the Witch
- Geo. Weatherbee: Mons. Grogande, the Baker who made him
- Tommy Dean: Obo, Mifket who likes Gingerbread
- Lillian Swartz: Hogo, Mifket who likes Gingerbread
- Minnie Brown: Joko, Mifket who likes Gingerbread
- Tom Persons: Hopkins, of the Village Fireworks Committee
- Grace Elder: Chick the Cherub, an Incubator Baby
- Annabel Jephson: The Island Princess
- Mrs. Bostwick: Mme. Grogand, the Baker's Wife[4][5]
Production
The New York Times included a write-up of the show in a full-page article in a late 1909 issue, over a year after the show had come and gone, probably because they finally had space for it after it was no longer necessary but still of interest. When the production appeared in New York, the Times' listing for it appeared along with the plays, not with the films, drawing attention to the fact that Baum, not to mention the rest of the cast, would be appearing live on stage with the films as a major, though far from the only, component.
The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays was produced by "The Radio-Play Company of America", John B. Shaw, Jr., general manager. The sets were designed and painted by E. Pollack. The costumes were designed by Fritz Schultz and Chicago Costuming Co. Properties and
The
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 9780801870927. Retrieved February 29, 2016.
- ^ Swartz, Mark Evan (2002). Oz Before the Rainbow, p. 270
- ^ Tompkins, Eugene; Kilby, Quincy (1908). The history of the Boston Theatre, 1854-1901. Brandeis University Libraries. Boston, Houghton Mifflin.
- ^ Item Images
- ^ Program for L. Frank Baum's Fairylogue - PBA Galleries, Auctions & Appraisers
- ^ "Aug 13, 1962, page 17 - St. Louis Globe-Democrat at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
External links
- The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays at IMDb