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On Saturday night, I watched The Wizard of Oz at a new friend’s house. This guy has prints of old movies and shows them in his backyard, with an old-time popcorn maker and the works. Good times! The 16mm print was about 20 years old, he said.

I haven’t seen TWoO in a while, and I got misty a couple of times: During the end of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” with lovely simple camera work panning to capture more of the tractor as Judy does her simple lovely thing and Toto just sits there being brilliant. I could only find this image on the internet, but the better moments are soon thereafter.

I got misty again when we enter Oz and see color for the first time. The camera work is once again subtle and powerful. Loved that! You know what, I got misty a couple of other times, too, okay? Okay. Congrats to Judy, Victor, Burt, Harold, the whole creative gang.

(Also, there were a couple of very very cute and engaging women there … but that’s a different story for another time and place.)