Over the Christmas break our family watched the Wizard of Oz for the boys had never seen it. They enjoyed it very much and we're interested to learn that the movie was adapted from a book.

Our new unschoolerish selves have decided to read the book together we would compare the differences from the changes in the movie. Already in chapter two we have found that those beautiful ruby slippers were actually silver in the book.  The boys are wondering why it was changed and did it have something to do with the silver color not showing up as vibrantly on the actual film the movie was shot on. Although the tin man is a silver tone, he is not nearly as magnificent in color as the ruby shoes.

We are going to watch the movie again to read the credits and the type of color used, wasn't it called techni-color back then? This is going to turn into a science project also studying now the colorization of the film and "cyclones".