Did you ever see a film called The Wizard of Oz? first time in movie theatres in 1939 - it began as all talking pictures had since The Jazz Singer in 1927 - in Black and White, with contemporary characters that looked like many did during the Great Depression. Dorothy has got it rough. An annoying old woman who lives in her small rural town yells at Dorothy that her little dog Toto is a menace, and she wants it destroyed. The woman takes it from Dorothy and stuffs it into a basket on the back of her bicycle and rides away - but Toto pries loose and jumps out and runs back to Dorothy and that’s when Dorothy realizes that her only course at this point is to run away. And she heads down the road to do it - - but just then, a twister hits - a vicious storm that drives her back to her house. Dorothy tries to join her family in the cellar, they can’t hear her stomping on the storm door, so she is forced inside the house, and a window frame breaks loose and knocks her out flat across a mattress. Then the whole house was sucked up, high into the tornado, until it lands, ‘thwump’ And all is strangely quiet. And, Dorothy wakens, and creeps across the room and when she opened the door - my father said that the whole audience gasped as one because they had never seen Technicolor before. The camera pushes into the Land of Oz. My father told me that every kid came out of that movie theatre in a daze, because, as far as they were concerned, they had been somewhere that they had never been before. By the time I saw the film for the first time about 25 years later - it was Black & White that was a different world for me, because everything was always in color - I was just terrified because I was sure that the flying monkeys that the wicked witch sent to grab Dorothy (with the same menacing musical theme playing as when she snatched Toto) – so I was just looking over my shoulder hoping that they wouldn’t come for me . . .