The Wizard Of Oz

The Wizard Of Oz   

                                    by
          Noel Langley
        Florence Ryerson
      and Edgar Allen Woolf

    Cutting Continuity Script
    Taken From Printer's Dupe
                        Last revised March 15, 1939

FADE IN -- Title:

For 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.

To those of you who have been faithful to it in return

...and to the Young in Heart --- we dedicate this picture.

        FADE OUT:

MS -- Dorothy stoops down to Toto -- speaks to him -- then runs down road
to b.g. -- Toto following --

    DOROTHY
  She isn't coming yet, Toto. Did she hurt
  you?  She tried to, didn't she?  Come on --
  we'll go tell Uncle Henry and Auntie Em.
  Come on, Toto.

LS -- Farm yard -- Dorothy enters left b.g. along road -- Toto following
her -- CAMERA PANS right -- she comes forward thru gate -- runs forward to
Aunt Em and Uncle Henry working at Incubator --

    DOROTHY
  Aunt Em!  Aunt Em!

MS -- Aunt Em and Uncle Henry working with baby chicks in incubator --
Dorothy runs in -- speaks to them -- Dorothy picks up baby chick -- CAMERA
TRUCKS back as Aunt Em and Dorothy come forward -- Aunt Em puts chick in
coop with hen -- then TRUCKS forward as they go to b.g. to incubator --
Dorothy reacts -- Uncle Henry looks at her -- CAMERA PANS her to left
across yard --

    DOROTHY
  Aunt Em!

    AUNT EM
  Fifty-seven, fifty-eight --

    DOROTHY
  Just listen to what Miss Gulch did to Toto!
  She --

    AUNT EM
  Dorothy, please!  We're trying to count!
  Fifty-eight--

    DOROTHY
  Oh, but Aunt Em, she hit him over the --

    UNCLE HENRY
  Don't bother us now, honey -- this old
  incubator's gone bad, and we're likely to
  lose a lot of our chicks.

    DOROTHY
  Oh -- oh, the poor little things.  Oh, but
  Aunt Em, Miss Gulch hit Toto right over the
  back with a rake just because she says he
  gets in her garden and chases her nasty old
  cat every day.

    AUNT EM
  Seventy --  Dorothy, please!

    DOROTHY
  Oh, but he doesn't do it every day -- just
  once or twice a week.  And he can't catch
  her old cat, anyway. And now she says she's
  gonna get the sheriff, and --

    AUNT EM
  Dorothy!  Dorothy!  We're busy!

    DOROTHY
  Oh -- all right.

MCS - Aunt Em and Uncle Henry taking chicks out of incubator -

    UNCLE HENRY
  Poor little orphan, and her Miss Gulch
  troubles. Gosh all hemlock - you know, she
  ought to have somebody to play with.

    AUNT EM
  I know, but we all got to work out our own
  problems, Henry.

    UNCLE HENRY
  Yes.

    AUNT EM
  Oh, I hope we got them in time.

    UNCLE HENRY
  Yes.

MLS -- Zeke -- Hunk and Hickory working on wagon -- Hickory and Zeke
lowering bed of wagon into place --

    ZEKE
  How's she coming?

    HUNK
  Take it easy.

CS -- Hunk on ground -- gets finger caught under wagon bed -- reacts --

    HUNK
  Ow!  You got my finger!

CS -- Zeke and Hickory holding wagon bed --

    ZEKE
  Well, why don't you get your finger out of
  the way!

MLS -- Zeke and Hickory put wagon bed in place -- Hunk sitting on ground
by wagon -- Dorothy enters -- comes forward to Zeke -- CAMERA TRUCKS
forward on them -- they speak -- Zeke exits left f.g. -- Hunk enters --
speaks to Dorothy -- Hickory exits right -- PAN left as Hunk and Dorothy
go over by wagon  -- they speak -- Dorothy exits right -- Hunk hits his
finger with hammer -- whirls around --

    HICKORY
  Come on - come on - over this way.

    ZEKE
  Okay.

    HICKORY
  There you are.

    HUNK
  Right on my finger!

    ZEKE
  It's a lucky thing it wasn't your head.

    DOROTHY
  Zeke, what am I going to do about Miss
  Gulch?  Just because Toto chases her old
  cat --

    ZEKE
  Listen, honey, I got them hogs to get in.

    HUNK
  Now lookit, Dorothy, you ain't using your
  head about Miss Gulch.  Think you didn't
  have any brains at all.

    DOROTHY
  I have so got brains.

    HUNK
  Well, why don't you use them?  When you come
  home, don't go by Miss Gulch's place.  Then
  Toto won't get in her garden, and you won't
  get in no trouble.  See?

    DOROTHY
  Oh, Hunk, you just won't listen, that's all.

    HUNK
  Well, your head ain't made of straw, you know.

MLS - Int. Barn - Hickory working on wind machine - straightens up -
reacts - Dorothy comes forward - CAMERA TRUCKS forward as Hickory goes to
her - he speaks to her - turns motor of wind machine on - they watch it -
oil spurts out into Hickory's face - he reacts - Dorothy exit left -

    HICKORY
  Oh! Oh, it feels like my joints are rusted.
  Listen, Dorothy, don't let Hunk kid you
  about Miss Gulch. She's just a poor
  sour-faced old maid that -- she ain't got
  no heart left. You know, you should have a
  little more heart yourself, and have pity
  on her.

    DOROTHY
  Well, gee, I try and have a heart.

    HICKORY
  Now look, here's something that really has
  a heart. This is the best invention I ever
  invented.

    DOROTHY
  This?

    HICKORY
  Sure. It's to break up winds, so we don't
  have no more dust storms. Can you imagine
  what it'll mean to this section of the
  country? I'll show you. It works perfectly
  now. Here's the principle. You see that fan
  -- that sends up air currents into the sky.
  These air currents -- Oh, stop it!

    DOROTHY
  Oh!

    HICKORY
  Who did it? Now wait a minute.

    DOROTHY
  Hickory!

    HICKORY
  Now what happened? I'll bet Hunk did that.

MLS -- Zeke driving pigs into pen -- Dorothy enters in b.g. walks along
railing of pen -- Zeke goes to b.g. -- CAMERA TRUCKS forward -- Zeke pours
feed into trough --

    ZEKE
  Say!  Get in there before I make a dime bank
  out of you!  Listen, kid, are you going to
  let that old Gulch heifer try and buffalo
  you?

MCS -- Zeke poring feed into trough -- speaks --

    ZEKE
  She ain't nothing to be afraid of.  Have a
  little courage, that's all.

MLS -- Dorothy walking along railing between pig pens --

    DOROTHY
  I'm not afraid of her.

MCS -- Zeke picks up another bucket of feed -- pours it into trough --

    ZEKE
  Then the next time she squawks, walk right
  up to her and spit in her eye.  That's what
  I'd do!

MLS -- Dorothy on railing -- loses her balance -- falls into pig pen --

    DOROTHY
  Oh!

MCS -- Zeke reacts -- CAMERA PANS left as he jumps into pen -- takes
Dorothy's foot out of wire -- then picks her up -- CAMERA PANS right as he
carries her out of pen -- puts her down with Hunk and Hickory -- Zeke
jumps out of pen -- sits down -- wipes his brow --

    DOROTHY
  Oh!  Oh, Zeke!  Help!  Help me, Zeke!  Get
  me out of here!  Help!

    HICKORY
  Are you all right, Dorothy?

    DOROTHY
  Yes, I'm all right.  Oh -- I fell in and --
  and Zeke --

MCS -- Zeke -- Dorothy -- Hunk and Hickory -- they all look at Zeke --
they laugh -- Aunt Em enters with plate of crullers -- CAMERA TRUCKS
forward on Hunk -- Aunt Em and Hickory -- they speak -- Hunk and Hickory
each take cruller -- go to b.g. -- CAMERA PULLS back as Aunt Em comes
forward to Zeke and Dorothy -- she speaks to Zeke -- CAMERA TRUCKS forward
as Dorothy and Aunt Em walk to b.g. -- Dorothy takes cruller -- Aunt Em
runs to b.g. --

    DOROTHY
  Why, Zeke, -- you're just as scared as I am!

    HUNK
  What's the matter -- gonna let a little old
  pig make a coward out of you?

    HICKORY
  Look at you, Zeke -- you're just as white --

    AUNT EM
  Here, here, what's all this jabber-wapping
  when there's work to be done?  I know three
  shiftless farm hands that'll be out of a
  job before they know it!

    HICKORY
  Well, Dorothy was walking along the --

    AUNT EM
  I saw you tinkering with that contraption,
  Hickory. Now, you and Hunk get back to that
  wagon!

    HICKORY
  All right, Mrs. Gale.  But some day they're
  going to erect a statue to me in this town,
  and --

    AUNT EM
  Well, don't start posing for it now.  Here,
  here -- can't work on an empty stomach.
  Have some crullers.

    HUNK
  Gosh, Mrs. Gale.

    AUNT EM
  Just fried.

    HICKORY
  Thanks.

    HUNK
  Swell.

    ZEKE
  You see, Dorothy toppled in with the big
  Duroc...

    AUNT EM
  It's no place for Dorothy about a pig sty!
  Now you go feed those hogs before they worry
  themselves into anemia!

    ZEKE
  Yes'am.

    DOROTHY
  Auntie Em, really -- you know what Miss
  Gulch said she was gonna do to Toto?  She
  said she was gonna --

    AUNT EM
  Now, Dorothy, dear, stop imagining things.
  You always get yourself into a fret over
  nothing.

    DOROTHY
  No --

    AUNT EM
  Now, you just help us out today, and find
  yourself a place where you won't get into
  any trouble.

MCU -- Dorothy reacts -- speaks --

    DOROTHY
  Some place where there isn't any trouble.

MS -- Dorothy and Toto -- she tosses him a piece of the cruller -- Toto
eats it -- Dorothy speaks as she walks forward -- she sings -- leans
against haystack -- then walks over near rake -- CAMERA PANS right --

    DOROTHY
  Do you suppose there is such a place, Toto?
  There must be.  It's not a place you can
  get to by a boat or a train.  It's far, far
  away -- behind the moon -- beyond the rain --

    DOROTHY
   (sings)
  Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high,
  There's a land that I heard of once in a
    lullaby.
  Somewhere, over the rainbow, skies are blue,
  And the dreams that you dare to dream really
    do....

CS -- Toto by wheel of rake -- listening to song --

    DOROTHY o.s.
   (sings)
  ...come true....

MCS -- Dorothy singing -- swings on wheel of rake -- then walks forward
around wheel -- Toto jumps up onto seat of rake -- Dorothy pets him --
sits on front of rake -- CAMERA PULLS back -- Dorothy finishes song --

    DOROTHY
   (sings)
  ...Someday I'll wish upon a star
  And wake up where the clouds are far behind
    me.
  Where troubles melt like lemon drops,
  Away above the chimney tops,
  That's where you'll find me.
  Somewhere, over the rainbow, bluebirds fly.
  Birds fly over the rainbow,
  Why then -- oh, why can't I?
  If happy little bluebirds fly
  Beyond the rainbow
  Why, oh, why can't I?

LS -- Miss Gulch rides along country road on bicycle -- CAMERA PANS to
right with her --

LS -- Miss Gulch rides forward to front of Gale's home -- stops and gets
off her bicycle as Uncle Henry comes forward --

    MISS GULCH
  Mr. Gale!

    UNCLE HENRY
  Howdy, Miss Gulch.

    MISS GULCH
  I want to see you and your wife right
  away....

MCS -- Uncle Henry and Miss Gulch at gate -- they speak -- Uncle Henry
lets go of the gate -- it hits Miss Gulch -- she reacts -- exits left --
Uncle Henry puts paint brush down -- starts out left --

    MISS GULCH
  ... about Dorothy.

    UNCLE HENRY
  Dorothy?  Well, what has Dorothy done?

    MISS GULCH
  What's she done?  I'm all but lame from the
  bite on my leg!

    UNCLE HENRY
  You mean she bit you?

    MISS GULCH
  No, her dog!

    UNCLE HENRY
  Oh, she bit her dog, eh?

    MISS GULCH
  NO!