Wizard of oz eng sub
This wasn’t a seasonal BBC screening but, using a method only very slightly less old-fashioned than scheduled broadcast television, I bought it on DVD. Last weekend, with my own six-year-old, I watched The Wizard of Oz for the first time this century. You’ve got it now, haven’t you? The annual Christmas screening of The Wizard of Oz was one of the huge festive signifiers in my childhood, along with the coming of carol singers, the getting out of the silver cake-topper and my father furiously working through the fairy lights to find the dud. And then I saw it again the next Christmas, and the next and the next and the next until the film was around 50 years old, and I stopped watching it. The first time I saw it, this film was already older than the book had been when it was adapted. But that moving picture is now, itself, 82 years old. This was a card shown at the start of a moving picture, a film, a piece of jazzily modern, up-to-the-minute media that could scarcely believe it was depicting a story still popular after nearly 40 years. That’s how long “nearly forty years” was held to be. A remarkable fact was being pointed out: that time had been powerless to put a certain story out of fashion, in the way that time has not lessened the majesty of St Paul’s Cathedral, or Prague, or the Pyramids.
It’s clear from the wording that “nearly forty years” would be construed as a very long time. To those of you who have been faithful to it in return … and to the Young in Heart … we dedicate this picture. Oyez, Christmas quizzers! What are the following words describing, and where have you seen them before?įor nearly forty years, this story has given faithful service to the Young in Heart and Time has been powerless to put its kindly philosophy out of fashion.