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The first time I watched The Wizard of Oz in color I was angry and amazed at the same time.  I was around ten years old.  We didn’t have color television till I hit double-digits.  I was angry because I knew that movie as black and white.  I didn’t know anything about sepia or technicolor.  So it altered my whole schema.

I was amazed because it changed my perception of the world.  I didn’t always distinguish between reality and fantasy very well and so this color shift was just amazing for my mind.  Not that my world was in sepia tone, but yes, I think we tend to color our memories so the movie made perfect sense to me.

We watched The Wizard of Oz on the big screen last year and I cried like I do watching it on the television.  I didn’t care that there were people who could see me crying. 

I am thankful for The Wizard of Oz.  It opened my world to fantasies and the world of possibilities and it has done the same for my sons.