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The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays is a american film of genre Fantasy directed by Otis Turner released in USA on 23 september 1908 with Lyman Frank Baum

The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays (1908)

The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays
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Released in USA 23 september 1908
Length 2h
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Fantasy,    Adventure
Rating53% 2.658662.658662.658662.658662.65866

The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays was an early attempt to bring L. Frank Baum's Oz books to the motion picture screen. It was a mixture of live actors, hand-tinted magic lantern slides, and film. Baum himself would appear as if he were giving a lecture, while he interacted with the characters (both on stage and on screen). Although acclaimed throughout its tour, the show experienced budgetary problems (with the show costing more to produce than the money that sold-out houses could bring in) and folded after two months of performances. It opened in Grand Rapids, Michigan on September 24, 1908. It later moved to New York City, where it reportedly closed December 16. It was scheduled to run through December 31, and ads for it continued to run in The New York Times until then.

Although today seen mostly as a failed first effort to adapt the Oz books, The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays is notable in film history because it contains the earliest original film score to be documented (an innovation often erroneously credited to the 1915 landmark film The Birth of a Nation).

Actors

Lyman Frank Baum

(The Wizard of Oz Man, who will present his very merry, whimsical and really wonderful Fairylogue and Radio-Plays)
Romola Remus

(Dorothy Gale of Kansas)
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