![]() In looking it up, the director of this movie-Hal Sutherland-used to work for Disney and animated on “Sleeping Beauty”, so I may be right in my thinking here. Also, Oz looks like the background painter(s) was a fan of Eyvind Earle, the guy who painted all the backgrounds in Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty”. Scarecrow’s animation looks like they were trying to emulate Chuck Jones and the elephants look like they were trying to emulate Woolie Reitherman’s elephants (in “The Jungle Book” and “Goliath II”). ![]() And the Saw-Horse is changed to a carousel horse. This movie made some interesting changes to the story in the books, namely the all-girl army that takes over the Emerald City is changed to an all-elephant army. But why not just skip the second book and adapt the third book alone? Who knows? I’m not sure why both Filmation and Disney did this, other than the fact that the character Dorothy isn’t in the second Oz book. The movie, like “Return to Oz”, is a combo adaptation of the second and third Oz books (“The Marvelous Land of Oz” and “Ozma of Oz”). It’s hard to find for less than $30, but I did manage to find it on eBay for $9.99. ![]() The movie was released on DVD in 2006 but has since been bought by Dreamworks, who too k it off the shelves. I liked this movie as a sequel to the 1939 MGM film “The Wizard of Oz” a lot more than Disney’s shitty “Return to Oz”, and indeed it is considered the official sequel, although I’m not sure who deemed it that.Īnywho, info about it can be found here.
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