On Tue, 19 May 1998, Donald Larsson wrote: > I came late to this post, so was surprised to see Scott Hutchins ask: > > > The filmography (at http://php.iupui.edu/~sahutchi/ozfilms.htm) is cleaned > > up (mostly) through 1987. Two of the films were made at Mankato State > > University. Perhaps Donald Larsson could help with that? > > The two citations were: > > > 1976 > The Wizard of Oz [play] > BW, 115 min., filmed February 19. > Mankato Fine Arts Community Theatre > V: Mankato State University (videoreels) > > 1983 > Matilda Joslyn Gage [Research Discussion] > BW, 30 min. > Mankato State University > W: Sally Roesch Wagner. > S: John E. Dimeglio (Moderator), Sally Roesch Wagner (Matlida Electra Joslyn > Gage), Michael > Patrick Hearn (Authority on L. Frank Baum). > V: Mankato State University > > > The first is apparently a video record of a community play version of > the film (before my time here). A search of the library database does > not indicate that the tape is still there. It might have been removed > by now. > > The second is in the library's video collection. Sally Wagner was a > former member of the Women's Studies Department here whose specialty > was on the life of Matilda Gage, who was--if memory serves--the > mother-in-law of L. Frank Baum. The video is a tape of a presentation > and conference on Gage. Sally used to give "living history" > presentations dressed as Gage. > > I doubt if the film footage is at all relevant or even extant, but when > the Theater Dept. did a stage version of the Wizard several years ago, > they used a projected film image of a tornado in the opening scene. > I would really appreciate it if you could find out for me (for certain). I know of several libraries (according to WorldCat) that own the videoreels, but I can't get them through interlibray loan, and what the heck is a videoreel, anyway? Scott > Don Larsson > > > ---------------------- > Donald Larsson, Mankato State U (MN) > [log in to unmask] > > ---- > Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the > University of Alabama. > ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite