The monumentality of this transition is reinforced by the film’s use of color. ![]() ![]() Then, through the transitional wipe of an opening door, we are immersed into a world of Technicolor saturation, bright reds, sparkling greens, deep blues, and yellow brick roads. It’s an antique, faded world – no wonder she longs for a place somewhere over the rainbow. Inside the house, and up to this point in the movie, we only see Dorothy’s world in monochrome - shades of sepia browns and yellows. ![]() In the iconic scene from 1939’s The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy opens the front door of her storm-swept homestead and discovers she’s not in Kansas anymore, we experience a masterclass in how cinematic color functions.
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