THE FIRST 7 PAGES OF
THE WIZARD OF OZ
MS -- Dorothy stoops down to Toto -- speaks to him -- then runs down road
to b.g. -- Toto following --
DOROTHY
She isn't coming yet, Toto. Did she hurt
you? She tried to, didn't she? Come on --
we'll go tell Uncle Henry and Auntie Em.
Come on, Toto.
DOROTHY
Aunt Em! Aunt Em!
MS -- Aunt Em and Uncle Henry working with baby chicks in incubator --Dorothy runs in -- speaks to them -- Dorothy picks up baby chick --
DOROTHY
Aunt Em!
AUNT EM
Fifty-seven, fifty-eight --
DOROTHY
Just listen to what Miss Gulch did to Toto!
She --
AUNT EM
Dorothy, please! We're trying to count!
Fifty-eight--
DOROTHY
Oh, but Aunt Em, she hit him over the --
UNCLE HENRY
Don't bother us now, honey -- this old
incubator's gone bad, and we're likely to
lose a lot of our chicks.
DOROTHY
Oh -- oh, the poor little things. Oh, but
Aunt Em, Miss Gulch hit Toto right over the
back with a rake just because she says he
gets in her garden and chases her nasty old
cat every day.
AUNT EM
Seventy -- Dorothy, please!
DOROTHY
Oh, but he doesn't do it every day -- just
once or twice a week. And he can't catch
her old cat, anyway. And now she says she's
gonna get the sheriff, and --
AUNT EM
Dorothy! Dorothy! We're busy!
DOROTHY
Oh -- all right.
UNCLE HENRY
Poor little orphan, and her Miss Gulch
troubles. Gosh all hemlock - you know, she
ought to have somebody to play with.
AUNT EM
I know, but we all got to work out our own
problems, Henry.
UNCLE HENRY
Yes.
AUNT EM
Oh, I hope we got them in time.
UNCLE HENRY
Yes.
ZEKE
How's she coming?
HUNK
Take it easy.
-- Hunk on ground -- gets finger caught under wagon bed -- reacts --
HUNK
Ow! You got my finger!
ZEKE
Well, why don't you get your finger out of
the way!
HICKORY
Come on - come on - over this way.
ZEKE
Okay.
HICKORY
There you are.
HUNK
Right on my finger!
ZEKE
It's a lucky thing it wasn't your head.
DOROTHY
Zeke, what am I going to do about Miss
Gulch? Just because Toto chases her old
cat --
ZEKE
Listen, honey, I got them hogs to get in.
HUNK
Now lookit, Dorothy, you ain't using your
head about Miss Gulch. Think you didn't
have any brains at all.
DOROTHY
I have so got brains.
HUNK
Well, why don't you use them? When you come
home, don't go by Miss Gulch's place. Then
Toto won't get in her garden, and you won't
get in no trouble. See?
DOROTHY
Oh, Hunk, you just won't listen, that's all.
HUNK
Well, your head ain't made of straw, you know.
MLS - Int. Barn - Hickory working on wind machine
HICKORY
Oh! Oh, it feels like my joints are rusted.
Listen, Dorothy, don't let Hunk kid you
about Miss Gulch. She's just a poor
sour-faced old maid that -- she ain't got
no heart left. You know, you should have a
little more heart yourself, and have pity
on her.
DOROTHY
Well, gee, I try and have a heart.
HICKORY
Now look, here's something that really has
a heart. This is the best invention I ever
invented.
DOROTHY
This?
HICKORY
Sure. It's to break up winds, so we don't
have no more dust storms. Can you imagine
what it'll mean to this section of the
country? I'll show you. It works perfectly
now. Here's the principle. You see that fan
-- that sends up air currents into the sky.
These air currents -- Oh, stop it!
DOROTHY
Oh!
HICKORY
Who did it? Now wait a minute.
DOROTHY
Hickory!
HICKORY
Now what happened? I'll bet Hunk did that.
MLS -- Zeke driving pigs into pen -- Dorothy enters in b.g. walks along
railing of pen -- Zeke goes to b.g. -- CAMERA TRUCKS forward -- Zeke pours
feed into trough --
ZEKE
Say! Get in there before I make a dime bank
out of you! Listen, kid, are you going to
let that old Gulch heifer try and buffalo
you?
Zeke poring feed into trough -- speaks --
ZEKE
She ain't nothing to be afraid of. Have a
little courage, that's all.
Dorothy walking along railing between pig pens --
DOROTHY
I'm not afraid of her.
Zeke picks up another bucket of feed -- pours it into trough --
ZEKE
Then the next time she squawks, walk right
up to her and spit in her eye. That's what
I'd do!
Dorothy on railing -- loses her balance -- falls into pig pen --
DOROTHY
Oh!Oh! Oh, Zeke! Help! Help me, Zeke! Get
me out of here! Help!
HICKORY
Are you all right, Dorothy?
DOROTHY
Yes, I'm all right. Oh -- I fell in and --
and Zeke --Why, Zeke, -- you're just as scared
as I am!
HUNK
What's the matter -- gonna let a little old
pig make a coward out of you?
HICKORY
Look at you, Zeke -- you're just as white --
AUNT EM
Here, here, what's all this jabber-wapping
when there's work to be done? I know three
shiftless farm hands that'll be out of a
job before they know it!
HICKORY
Well, Dorothy was walking along the --
AUNT EM
I saw you tinkering with that contraption,
Hickory. Now, you and Hunk get back to that
wagon!
HICKORY
All right, Mrs. Gale. But some day they're
going to erect a statue to me in this town,
and --
AUNT EM
Well, don't start posing for it now. Here,
here -- can't work on an empty stomach.
Have some crullers.
HUNK
Gosh, Mrs. Gale.
AUNT EM
Just fried.
HICKORY
Thanks.
HUNK
Swell.
ZEKE
You see, Dorothy toppled in with the big
Duroc...
AUNT EM
It's no place for Dorothy about a pig sty!
Now you go feed those hogs before they worry
themselves into anemia!
ZEKE
Yes'am.
DOROTHY
Auntie Em, really -- you know what Miss
Gulch said she was gonna do to Toto? She
said she was gonna --
AUNT EM
Now, Dorothy, dear, stop imagining things.
You always get yourself into a fret over
nothing.
DOROTHY
No --
AUNT EM
Now, you just help us out today, and find
yourself a place where you won't get into
any trouble.
DOROTHY
Some place where there isn't any trouble. Do you suppose there is such a place, Toto? There must be. It's not a place you can get to by a boat or a train. It's far, far away -- behind the moon -- beyond the rain --