Lost Media

Productions

Wiki Notice: This list is to be edited if adaptions are found and/or are made more widely available.

• The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays, was a 1908 multimedia stage show that included the very first silent Oz movies, adapting The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, and John Dough and the Cherub. Produced by L. Frank Baum himself, the films and slides used in the show were made by the Selig Polyscope Company.
• An adaptation of The Marvelous Land of Oz entitled The Land of Oz (1932) that featured the Meglin Kiddies.
• The Magic of Oz, year created is unknown along with what production company.
• The Wizard of Oz radio show, all episode audio tracks are believed to be lost.
• A televised puppet show by Burr Tillstrom that aired in 1950. It featured Fran Allison who was the main human character of his series Kukla, Fran and Ollie. An episode of that series is believed to have previewed characters such as Tip and Mombi for a sequel that wasn't made.
• A pilot or at least key scenes for the canceled Lost in Oz (Tim Burton Project) are believed to have been filmed. Copies of the script have resurfaced and sold online.
• A separate anime special from 1991 is known from an IMDB listing.
• “Was”, A musical production of the book by Geoff Ryman, sponsored by the American Musical Theatre Project, premiered at the Ethel M. Barber Theatre at Northwestern University in October 2005. It was directed by Tina Landau, with libretto and lyrics by Barry Kleinbort, and music by Joseph Thalken. An earlier version of the musical appeared at the Human Race Theatre in Dayton, Ohio. The casting and a single image can be found online, however no known footage or track list has resurfaced.

Books

Some non-canonical Oz books were released in limited numbers or published only a few times if not just once to cause them to be exceptionally rare or considerably lost. Also some in development might have been canceled:

• The Laughing Dragon of Oz, only printed in 1934 due to copyright issues.
• The Blue Emperor of Oz: First published fan-fiction by Henry S. Blossom with only 300 copies in 1966, a second edition was released in 1982.
• More Dorothy Must Die: A 2018 collection of short stories exclusively offered on an app called Ampersand which only existed for about four months. With it going offline, author Danielle Paige has yet to re-release the extra material.

Foreign

Due to language barriers and other circumstances, these are seemingly landlocked and hard to obtain:

• The existence of a 1967 adaptation based on Alexander Volkov's The Wizard of the Emerald City simply called "The Wizard of Oz" filmed in black & white has not been verified amid claim made on Wikipedia page for Adaptations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
• The series The Wonderful Galaxy of Oz, all 26 episodes believed to be in Japanese and Arabic except for a shortened English movie version.
• In the Magical Land of Oz (1983-85), episodes only in Polish.
• The Wizard of Oz (1995), a modern-day British adaptation starring Denise van Outen as Dorothy, which is said to be a more adult version of the story with elements taken from Return to Oz (film).
• Adventures in the Emerald City, other Russian films, and even computer games based on the alternate Magic Land series are only in Russian.
• Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz, a Brazilian musical movie parodying the MGM's 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz, and its soundtrack album (both from 1984) are only available in Brazilian Portuguese.

Missing Info

• The Wizard of Oz (1902 musical): L. Frank Baum's original script that was more faithful to the book was only added to an intended appendix of To Please a Child now kept in an archive as an unpublished manuscript.
• The Wizard of Oz (1939): Various different draft scripts are known to exist but kept in onsite archives such as those by Noel Langley. Excerpts were allowed to appear in The Making of the Wizard of Oz.
  • The initial footage shot by Richard Thorpe is believed to either be lost or it was destroyed.
• Return to Oz (film): Several character cameos went uncredited with many of their names never made public.
• Rainbow Road to Oz: The script has never been released but copies have been sold at auction. Its' plot and development related to a proposed cartoon version are unknown.
• The Wonderful Land of Oz: The director never got the names for the actress who played Jellia Jamb nor the actor who played the Guardian of the Gates. Also, the girls in Jinjur's Army went uncredited, leading to rumors that some of them appeared in adult films made by the director.
• The full cast for The Wizard of Oz (1991) is not known.