The Patchwork Girl of Oz (film)
| The Patchwork Girl of Oz | |
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| Directed by | J. Farrell MacDonald |
| Written by | L. Frank Baum |
| Based on | The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum |
| Produced by | L. Frank Baum Louis F. Gottschalk Thomas Edison |
| Starring | Violet MacMillan Frank Moore Pierre Couderc Fred Woodward Raymond Russell Dick Rosson |
| Cinematography | James A. Crosby |
| Music by | Louis F. Gottschalk |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 81 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent English intertitles |
The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) is a silent film made by L. Frank Baum's The Oz Film Manufacturing Company. It was based on the 1913 book The Patchwork Girl of Oz.
The film was written and produced by L. Frank Baum and directed by J. Farrell MacDonald. It makes almost no use of the dialogue from the book in the intertitles. While there are a number of modest special effects, the movie relies largely on dancing (or rather cavorting), slapstick, and costuming. The Patchwork Girl uses acrobatics regularly. Dr. Pipt's daughter is added for love interest, as well as an additional plot thread: her boyfriend is turned into a small statue which women find irresistible. The plot omits the Glass Cat, the Shaggy Man, Dorothy, Mr. Yoop, The Lazy Quadling, and the phonograph, but also adds Mewel, a donkey, and "The Lonesome Zoop", both slapstick animals, as well as Jinjur, Jesseva and Danx, and Jesseva's friends.
The film was followed by The Magic Cloak of Oz and His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz.