The Magic Cloak of Oz
| The Magic Cloak of Oz | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Vivian Reed Fred Woodward |
| Cinematography | James A. Crosby |
| Music by | Louis F. Gottschalk |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date | September 28, 1914 |
Running time | c. 38 minutes (short version) 60 minutes (longer version at 18 frames per second) 43 minutes (longer version at 24 frames per second) |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent Film English intertitles |
The Magic Cloak of Oz is a 1914 film directed by J. Farrell MacDonald. It was written by L. Frank Baum and produced by Baum and composer Louis F. Gottschalk. The film is an adaptation of Baum's 1905 novel, Queen Zixi of Ix.[1]
This was the second film of
The Patchwork Girl of Oz. The film was followed by His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz.[2]
Production
The Magic Cloak of Oz had
The Patchwork Girl of Oz. Advertisements claimed that the film would be released September 28, 1914, by Paramount Pictures, but this apparently never occurred. It was eventually reduced from a five-reel film to two two-reel films known as The Magic Cloak and The Witch Queen.[1] The current prints are assembled from these two films, and so the film is incomplete. All of its titles are missing, and The Magic Cloak title card, which is not in The Oz Film Manufacturing Company style, is used without any additional credits. Its only allusion to Oz
is a title card's claim that the fairies of Burzee are "fairies of Oz".
Cast
Vivian Reed as Quavo, the minstrel. Juanita Hansen
appeared in the film, early in her career.
frames per second
).
In 2009, a longer version of the film was released on
The Wizard of Oz. The presentation runs about seventeen minutes longer than the 2005 version (if it were played at 18 frames, but is played at 24 frames per second and runs at 42 minutes) and does not contain a musical score. Additional scenes were included, and subplots were expanded upon, including Nickodemus getting help from four witches (from His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz
), the Roly-Rogues clapping hands on a hill and a sailor making a necktie of a piece of the Magic Cloak he bought. This version was only held in private collections and shown at private conventions prior to the home video release.
Blooper
One intertitle refers to Jikki as "silly old Zixi". Later Zixi is introduced with the same name. The name Jikki is used in the book for the first character, but never in the intertitles as a result of this mistake.
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-47210-988-0. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
- ISBN 978-0801870927. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
External links
- The Magic Cloak of Oz at IMDb
- The Magic Cloak of Oz is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
