15 Aug 2019

The Rest is History: The Wizard of Oz

From Lately, 10:45 pm on 15 August 2019

It's time to dive into the week's news, in the past. This week our resident historian Robert Kelly is taking us to the flicks, in 1939 specifically.

On the 12th of August 1939 luminaries from the film world gathered in Wisconsin for the premiere of The Wizard of Oz. It's an important moment for film history, but has also spawned competing theories of meaning which endure until today.

Wizard of Oz

Wizard of Oz Photo: MGM/The Kobal Collection