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Subject: Re: First Color Films (Oz) - facts is facts
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Date: Wed, 1-May-85 09:04:58 EDT
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> About Technicolor being "discovered in the middle of filming" the Wizard
> of Oz:  Something nobody seems to realize is that films are almost never
> photographed in plot-order.

Your point is a good one but does not change the fact that TWoO's color
process was scrapped about 1/3 of the way through the filming in favor
of the 'revolutionary new process' Technicolor.  Facts, after all, is facts :-).


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