Rainbow Road to Oz

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Rainbow Road to Oz was a proposed, but never finished, Walt Disney Studios 1950s live-action film about characters in the Land of Oz. Inspired by L. Frank Baum's early 20th century Oz novels, it was to have starred some of the Mouseketeers, including Darlene Gillespie as Dorothy Gale and Annette Funicello as Princess Ozma, as well as Bobby Burgess as the Scarecrow, Doreen Tracey as the Patchwork Girl, Jimmie Dodd as the Cowardly Lion, Tommy Kirk as the villainous son of the Wicked Witch of the West, and Kevin Corcoran.^[1]

In 1954, when the film rights to Baum's remaining thirteen Oz books were made available, Walt Disney Productions acquired them^[2] for use in Walt Disney's television series Disneyland which led to the live-action film Rainbow Road to Oz, which was abandoned and never completed.^[3]

Preview segments from the film aired on September 11, 1957, on Disneyland's fourth-anniversary show.^[4]

Recordings of several of the unused songs from the proposed film were later incorporated into Disneyland LPs in the 1960s. The Canadian release live concert CD, "Songs in the Key of Oz" presents several songs from Rainbow Road to Oz, among many other Oz-related numbers, performed by Canadian musical theater performers Joe Cascone and David Haines.^{[citation needed]}

Theories on why the film was abandoned include Disney's failure to develop a satisfactory script and the popularity of the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz on television which represented potential insurmountable comparisons. Disney ultimately replaced this film project with a new adaptation of Babes in Toyland.

References[]

^ "Movie Producers Crashing Broadway", The Washington Post and Times-Herald (September 3, 1957), page B-8
^ Chambers, Bill. "A Conversation: FFC Interviews Academy Award-winning editor Walter Murch". Film Freak Central. Archived from the original on February 18, 2013. Retrieved January 13, 2010.
^ Hill, Jim. "Disney's long, long journey to Oz". Jim Hill Media. Archived from the original on March 7, 2013. Retrieved July 13, 2012.
^ Disneyland segment at YouTube

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Canonical
books

L. Frank Baum	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904) Ozma of Oz (1907) Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908) The Road to Oz (1909) The Emerald City of Oz (1910) The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913) Tik-Tok of Oz (1914) The Scarecrow of Oz (1915) Rinkitink in Oz (1916) The Lost Princess of Oz (1917) The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918) The Magic of Oz (1919) Glinda of Oz (1920)
Ruth Plumly Thompson	The Royal Book of Oz (1921) Kabumpo in Oz (1922) The Cowardly Lion of Oz (1923) Grampa in Oz (1924) The Lost King of Oz (1925) The Hungry Tiger of Oz (1926) The Gnome King of Oz (1927) The Giant Horse of Oz (1928) Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz (1929) The Yellow Knight of Oz (1930) Pirates in Oz (1931) The Purple Prince of Oz (1932) Ojo in Oz (1933) Speedy in Oz (1934) The Wishing Horse of Oz (1935) Captain Salt in Oz (1936) Handy Mandy in Oz (1937) The Silver Princess in Oz (1938) Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz (1939)
Others	The Wonder City of Oz (1940) The Scalawagons of Oz (1941) Lucky Bucky in Oz (1942) The Magical Mimics in Oz (1946) The Shaggy Man of Oz (1949) The Hidden Valley of Oz (1951) Merry Go Round in Oz (1963) Yankee in Oz (1972) The Enchanted Island of Oz (1976) The Forbidden Fountain of Oz (1980) The Ozmapolitan of Oz (1986) The Wicked Witch of Oz (1993) The Giant Garden of Oz (1993) The Runaway in Oz (1995) The Rundelstone of Oz (2000) The Emerald Wand of Oz (2005) Trouble Under Oz (2006)
Alternate	Dorothy of Oz (1989) Lion of Oz and the Badge of Courage (1995)

Locations
and elements

Land of Oz
- Emerald City
- Munchkin Country
- Gillikin Country
- Winkie Country
- Quadling Country
- Yellow brick road
- Oogaboo
Deadly Desert
Nonestica
- Forest of Burzee
- Land of Ev
- Merryland
- Mo
- Ix
- Nome Kingdom
- Noland
Ruby slippers
Silver shoes
The Oz Film Manufacturing Company

Characters

Created by
L. Frank Baum

Created by
other writers

Other writers

Authors	John R. Neill Jack Snow Rachel Cosgrove Payes Eloise Jarvis McGraw Dick Martin Alexander Volkov Gregory Maguire Sherwood Smith Roger S. Baum
Illustrators	William Wallace Denslow Frank Kramer Dirk Gringhuis Dick Martin Eric Shanower William Stout

Political interpretations
Copyright status

Adaptations and other derivative works
Stage	The Wizard of Oz (1902) The Woggle-Bug (1905) The Tik-Tok Man of Oz (1913) The Wizard of Oz (1942) The Wiz (1974) The Marvelous Land of Oz (1981) The Wizard of Oz (1987) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2000) The Wizard of Oz (2011) The Woodsman (2012)
American Films	The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays (1908) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) Dorothy and the Scarecrow in Oz (1910) The Land of Oz (1910) John Dough and the Cherub (1910) The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) The Magic Cloak of Oz (1914) His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz (1914) The Wizard of Oz (1925) The Wizard of Oz (1933) The Wizard of Oz (1939) Rainbow Road to Oz (1954, unproduced) The Wonderful Land of Oz (1969) Journey Back to Oz (1972) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1975) (educational) The Wiz (1978) Return to Oz (1985) Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz (1987) Lion of Oz (2000) After the Wizard (2011) Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz (2011) Dorothy and the Witches of Oz (2012) Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (2014) OzLand (2014) Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz (2016)
Foreign language films	Ayşecik ve Sihirli Cüceler Rüyalar Ülkesinde (1971) The Wizard of Oz (1982) Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz (1984) Guardians of Oz (2015)
Other films	The Wizard of Mars (1965) Hunter (1973) Zardoz (1974) Oz (1976) The Steam Engines of Oz (2018)
Television	The Wizard of Oz (1950) Tales of the Wizard of Oz (1961) Return to Oz (1964) Off to See the Wizard (1967) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1986) The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story (1990) The Wizard of Oz (1990) The Wonderful Galaxy of Oz (1992) The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True (1995) The Oz Kids (1996) Lost in Oz (2002) The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005) The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's Tin Man (2007) Wizard of Odd (2010) Once Upon a Time (2011) The Wiz Live! (2015) Lost In Oz (2015) Emerald City (2017) Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz (2017)
Comics	Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz (1904–05) Adventures in Oz (1986–1992) The Enchanted Apples of Oz (1986) Oz Squad (1991) Lost Girls (1991–92) Oz (1994) MÄR Dorothy of Oz (2006) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2009)
Video games	The Wizard of Oz (arcade game) The Wizard of Oz (pinball) The Wizard of Oz (1993) The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road (2008) Emerald City Confidential (2009)
Reimagining	The Wizard of the Emerald City (1939) The Number of the Beast (1980) A Barnstormer in Oz (1982) The Wizard of A.I.D.S. (1987) Sir Harold and the Gnome King (1991) The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (1997) Visitors from Oz (1998) Dorothy Must Die (2014) The Wicked Will Rise (2015)
The Wicked Years	Wicked Son of a Witch A Lion Among Men Out of Oz Wicked (musical) Characters
Others	The Wozard of Iz Edward W. Hardy's The Woodsman (Original Off-Broadway Solo Recording) Land of Oz (theme park) Ozma (album)
Related	The International Wizard of Oz Club The Baum Bugle Twister (1994) Oz Park

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