The Wizard of Oz

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Wizard Of Oz, 1939.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Wizard Of Oz, 1939.

Still in the not-color opening in Kansas, worried Dorothy (Judy Garland) expresses Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg's famous song, in The Wizard Of Oz, 1939.

Dorothy (Judy Garland) and Toto arrive at the farmhouse just as the cyclone is approaching, Victor Fleming directing and A. Arnold Gillespie's special effects transporting them, in The Wizard Of Oz, 1939.

Dorothy (Judy Garland) and the Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) discover the Tin Man (Jack Haley) during an apple fight with the talking trees, in MGM's The Wizard Of Oz, 1939.

A Kansas farm girl dreams herself into a magical land where she must fight a wicked witch to escape in The Wizard of Oz (1939), starring Judy Garland.

As chilling as any sequence, Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man and the Lion (Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr), sent to the retrieve the Wicked Witch’s broomstick, run into trouble as she (Margaret Hamilton) looses the flying monkeys, in MGM’s The Wizard Of Oz, 1939.

TCM's original promo, Let's Movie.

Just begun following the yellow brick road, Dorothy (Judy Garland) meets the Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) who has Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg's If I Only Had A Brain all ready, in The Wizard Of Oz, 1939.

Promo for TCM's Friday Night Spotlight for April, 2015, Academy Award winners Ben Burtt and Craig Barron join Ben Mankiewicz for a salute to special effects wizard A. Arnold "Buddy" Gillespie, every Friday at 8pm ET starting April 3rd.

In late 1938, contest winners tour MGM studios and visit the set of The Wizard Of Oz including Buddy Ebsen, then cast as the Tin Man.