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The popular story has also been used for a number of more recent adaptations, and some of them have had some good points of their own. The settings and visual effects may not impress the devotees of today's computer imagery, but in their time they certainly demonstrated a great deal of skill and planning, and even now, in their own way they are more believable than are most of the computer tricks that have become so overused. Who does not feel that he or she could use at least one of the things that Dorothy's friends want? The adaptation from the original story is done quite well, making fine choices for the characters and episodes that would work on film. Likewise, the 'Oz' characters are bizarre enough to remain interesting, but there is a core of substance that again is easy to believe in. Although Dorothy is not a particularly complex character, she represents an innocent but deep yearning that is easy to identify with. There's no doubt that part of the appeal of the story and the characters comes from them being such old friends to so many cinema fans, but there are also good reasons why they have endured for so long, and have been able to hold up even after becoming so familiar.

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While it has become oddly fashionable in recent years to deride this kind of classic, innocent fantasy, the movie itself has aged very well, and it is likely to retain an appreciative audience for some time to come. Judy Garland's portrayal of Dorothy, Dorothy's oddball Oz friends, 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow', and the rest of this fine production of 'The Wizard of Oz' have lost little of their magic over the years.

Network airings in the 1990s were uncut and not time-compressed the film aired in a 2-hour, 10-minute time period.

CBS, which had shown the uncut version of the film in 1956, and again from the films first telecast until 1968, finally started to show it uncut again beginning in 1985, by time-compressing it. By the 1980s, the other excised shots included: the film's dedication in the opening credits, continuity shots of Dorothy and Toto running from the farm, establishing shots of the cyclone, the aforementioned tracking sequence in Munchkin Land, the establishing shot of the poppy field, and tiny bits and pieces of the trip to the Wicked Witch's castle.

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Also according to Fricke, more wholesale cutting of the film took place when CBS regained the TV rights in 1975. According to film historian John Fricke, these cuts started with solely a long tracking shot of Munchkin Land after Dorothy arrives there. As the amount of commercial time on network television gradually increased, more scenes were cut. From 1968 to 1984, on NBC-TV and CBS-TV airings of the film, the film was edited to sell more commercial time.

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