The Key Message of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ is Fit for a Pandemic 81 Years Later

On August 25, 1939 Victor Fleming’s adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s beloved series The Wizard Oz hit movie theaters to a stunned reception. The movie starts in the black-and-white humdrum existence of Kansas and soon switches to glorious technicolor when our intrepid heroine Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) gets carried away in…