Scene From Wizard of Oz

“We’re Not In Kansas Anymore”

This is the scene where Dorothy first enters OZ and meets the good witch, Glinda.

You can watch the scene performed in this video… “Toto… I’ve got a feeling…”

 

DOROTHY
Toto — I’ve a feeling we’re not in
Kansas anymore.

CS — Dorothy with Toto in her arms — looks about and speaks

DOROTHY

We must be over the rainbow!

LS — Dorothy puts Toto down to the ground — turns to the
b.g. — reacts and backs slowly toward the camera — exits
right-

LAP DISSOLVE TO:

MLS — Glinda looks o.s. to the right to Dorothy — MCU —
Dorothy look o.s. to l.f.g. — reacts — speaks —

DOROTHY
Now I — I know we’re not in Kansas.

MLS — Glinda — CAMERA PANS her right to Dorothy and Toto —
CAMERA TRUCKS forward — they speak —

GLINDA
Are you a good witch, or a bad witch?

DOROTHY
Who, me? Why, I’m not a witch at all.
I’m Dorothy Gale from Kansas.

GLINDA

Oh! Well….

CS — Toto — Dorothy’s feet in b.g. — GLINDA o.s. …is
that the Witch?

DOROTHY
Who, Toto?

MCS — Glinda and Dorothy — they speak and look o.s. to
l.f.g.–

DOROTHY (CONT’D)
Toto’s my dog.

GLINDA
Well, I’m a little muddled. The
Munchkins called me because a new witch
has just dropped a house on the Wicked
Witch of the East. And there’s the
house, and here you are, and that’s
all…

MCS — Wicked Witch of the East’s feet protruding from under
the farm house — GLINDA o.s. …that’s left of the Wicked
Witch of the East. MCU — Dorothy looks o.s. to l.f.g. —
reacts — GLINDA o.s. And so what the Munchkins want to
know… MCU — Glinda looks o.s. to Dorothy and speaks —

GLINDA (CONT’D)
…is, are you a good witch, or a bad
witch?

MCU — Dorothy looks to l.f.g. — speaks — reacts to noise
o.s. —

DOROTHY
Oh, but I’ve already told you, I’m not a
witch at all — witches are old and ugly.
What was that?

MCU — Glinda looks to r.f.g. and speaks —

GLINDA
The Munchkins. They’re laughing because
I am a witch. I’m Glinda, the Witch of
the North.

MCU — Dorothy looks to l.f.g. — reacts — speaks —
curtsies —

DOROTHY

You are! Oh, I beg your pardon! But
I’ve never heard of a beautiful…. MCU —
Glinda looks to r.f.g. and speaks —
DOROTHY o.s.

…witch before.

GLINDA
Only bad witches are ugly.

MCS — Glinda and Dorothy — they speak — Dorothy reacts to
noise o.s. — CAMERA TRUCKS back — Munchkins enter from b.g.
behind flowers — Glinda sings —

GLINDA (CONT’D)
The Munchkins are happy because you have
freed them from the Wicked Witch of the
East.

DOROTHY
Oh. But, if you please — what are
Munchkins?

GLINDA
The little people who live in this land —
it’s Munchkinland, and you are their
national heroine, my dear. It’s all
right — you may all come out and thank
her. It’s all right now – you may all
come out.

GLINDA (CONT’D)
(sings)
Come out, come out, wherever you are And
meet the young lady who fell from a star.

LS — Dorothy and Glinda — Toto with them — Munchkins in
f.g. — others enter in b.g. — Glinda leads Dorothy toward
the b.g. as she sings — CAMERA BOOMS up and forward —

GLINDA (CONT’D)
(sings)
She fell from the sky, she fell very far.
And Kansas she says is the name of the
star.

MLS — Munchkins — one rises from manhole in street — they
sing and move toward the r.f.g. —