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Origins of the Fantasy Feature

These two rare features from 1914 (the first year that feature-length filmmaking became the norm) bring to the screen an imaginative freedom and comic verve rarely duplicated since. Novelist L. Frank Baum himself produced THE PATCHWORK GIRL OF OZ twenty-five years before MGM's THE WIZARD OF OZ. When a magician accidentally turns bystanders into stone, the heroes must go in search of the antidote, a picaresque journey that eventually leads them to Oz and its wizard. A FLORIDA ENCHANTMENT is a prescient gender-bending comedy of manners, filmed in Florida and set in motion when a very contemporary young woman, angry with her philandering fiance, tests magic seeds that change women into men (and men into women), without altering their outward appearance. * Black and White * Approx run time: 129 minutes * Rare silent films with new piano scores * Film notes enclosed.