Wizard of Oz and Dark Side of the Moon

Have a dvd copy.

have similar b/w memories too; I can’t remember commercials. I would think there were, not sure.

 

read the book recently. very popular in its time, but the movie is much better.
my grandmother bought a color tv in the early sixties, i used to beg to go over.

 

My my how time flies.....

It's been 51 years since DSOTM.
It was only 36 years since the Wizard debuted before Pink Floyd released that 8th album.

I was (and am) not much of a Floyd fan but I fully acknowledge their contribution to what my baby girl calls "old fashioned rock."
Every now and then I will see one of the youngs wearing a 'classic rock' shirt and say something like....."ahhh 1975! I remember seeing them in St Louis!!!" or something to that effect.

They look at me as if I were a World War II veteran.....

Pink Floyd and Dorothy?

Nope!
Two bad tastes that would taste worse together.
Pass.....

 

... remember, L. Frank Baum's wife was a suffragette (e.g., Dorothy)!

In his dime store novel, published at the apex of the Bryant-McKinnley monetary debate, Dorothy's slippers were silver, the cowardly lion (e.g., William Jenning Bryant's free-silver pledge; the dollar pegged to bi-metalic standard), the scarecrow (e.g., farmers caught on the treadmill of farm mechanization), the tin man (e.g., dehumanization of humanity toiling on newfangled manufactory assembly lines), hand-in-hand marching down the yellow brick road (e.g., insult to the gold standard), their march upon the Emerald (e.g., money) City (e.g., Washington DC), a parody on populism, Coxy's Army marching all the way to the nation's capital!

Debate in scholastic enclaves raging the better part of the 20th Century, it's agreed the wicked witch of the east depicted Dorthy's house, flattening upon her, a parody of the ideological defeat of JP Morgan; the wicked witch of the west a parody of arid geographic topography west of the Mississippi (e.g., her ultimate demise depicted, an inadvertent splash in the face from Dorothy).,

L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of OZ would have eked a wry smile on the faces of our great, great grandparents, who would have no doubt had wherewithal for a rich active reading, of a tale Baum never lost sight of, that this was to be a novel for children, and their children's children.

Final analysis, McKinley's promise of a "full lunch pale" elipsed the cowardly lion's (e.g., William Jennings Bryant's) free silver platform he brandished, like a tinseled sword - qed.


Samuel, '04 Ruthiemobile

 

The movie house or the picture show. My grandmother would not get tv when it came to town. She gave in later, then saw Elvis on EdSullivan and thought the world was coming to an end. I was in the room and that’s why I remember it.