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Nora Lee

The Lion, Scarecrow,

Phots

Ozma (Emma
Jack

Ridley),
Pumpkinhead

with Billina

on

his

by

shoulder and Tik Tok
form

an

Oz

Bary

family

portrait.

Peak,

Richard

Blanshrd

and

Douglas
Dawson

The main ingredients of a fantasy
film are a healthy dose of realism
and a heaping spoonful of magic.
Return to Oz, a Walt Disney Films

release, has the requisite amounts
of this contrary mix. Director
Walter Murch has been to Oz, just
as surely as Victor
Fleming had
been, and though what he saw in
the Emerald City is different from
what Mr. Fleming saw, it is still
most

wonderfully Oz.
The story is based on at
two Frank Baum books,

least
"Ozma of Oz" and "The Land of

Oz," and contains

an

imaginative

of characters.

Dorothy,
played by Fairuza Balk, is joined
by a group of surprisingly human

cast

mechanicals. There is the round-

faced, round-bellied Tik Tok,

50

American

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a

clockwork man;

Jack Pumpkinhead; Billina, the talking hen; the
incredible flying Gump; and the fa¬
miliar Scarecrow, Tin Woodman
and Cowardly Lion. This story
contains not only an evil witch but
the terrible Nome King, and it is
rather hard to tell just what he
is a rock-like human
like rock.
-

on a

to

or a

human¬

Disney's new Oz depends
variety of special effects

wide

create

the realistic world of

Dorothy and her friends. Many
talented people contributed to the
magic of the film. Highlighted here
the

Conway, the Merlin
Muppetland, was the or¬
ganizing force behind the creature
shop. Originally from Illinois, he
has worked on most of the major
fairy tales that have come out in
the last six years. He sculpted the
alluring Augra and the terrible
Skeksis for Dark Crystal as well as
the lovable head of Miss Piggy for
various Henson productions. His
trip to Oz was followed by a trip
Olsen of

to

Wonderland for the film Dream

Lovers where he

helped bring

to

life the incredible creatures first
imagined by Lewis Carroll.

design supervisor,
Lyle Conway; the clay animation

He and his crew designed
and manufactured the radio- and

supervisor, Will Vinton; and last,
but certainly not least, David
Watkin, the director of photog¬

suits for the

creatures

commodate

human inside. More

raphy

than

are

May 1985

creature

on

this

new

journey

to

Oz.

cable-controlled

a

a

and the
which ac¬

creatures

year was spent

in

pre-



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