The first Wizard of Oz film, from 1925, is awesomely racist. A black farmhand was added for the sole purpose of being a watermelon-eating, English-mangling fool. The VHS packaging comments that it is "slightly different than the MGM version starring Judy Garland". Indeed.
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Wizard of Oz (1925)
Date: 2010-03-03 10:50 pm (UTC)