[NELSON111]

>>>For instance the whole silver/gold standard thing can’t be seen unless one knows that Dorothy’s slippers were silver in the book and changed to ruby in the movie because they looked better.

Exactly. If you go to the books...forget the movie...and place it into the context of the times...its pretty obvious what Baum was doing.

[The Free Engineer]

I read the book a couple of weeks ago with my 5 year old son.

I thought it was very funny that the wizard made everyone wear emerald colored glasses when in the Emerald City.

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