Continuity mistake: In the beginning while Dorothy is still on the farm, she walks along the pig pen fence and then falls in. When Bert Lahr picks her up out of there her dress is perfectly clean. (00:03:45)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Plot summary
Directed by: Victor Fleming
Starring: Frank Morgan, Judy Garland, Billie Burke, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Margaret Hamilton
After the terrible cyclone, Dorothy finds herself lost in a strange, magical and technicolour world.
There she meets the miniscule and enchanting Munchkins and the Good Witch of The North, Glinda who tells Dorothy that the only way to get home is to visit the Emerald City, where she must ask the Great Wizard of Oz for help.
Along the yellow-brick road to the Emerald City, Dorothy and and her faithful little dog Toto meet many strange and frightening creatures.
The Scarecrow, the Cowardly lion, and the Tin Man join her adventure, each one hoping to meet the Great Wizard.
Dorothy has a final showdown with the Wicked Witch whose sister was unfortunately flattened when Dorothy's house landed in Munchkin Land after the Cyclone.
More mistakes in The Wizard of Oz
Wicked Witch: Ohhh... You cursed brat! Look what you've DONE! I'm melting! Melting! Oh... What a world, what a world! Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?!
Trivia: Professor Marvel, the Cabbie, the doorman, the guard, and the wizard himself are all the same actor, Frank Morgan.
Question: Did Dorothy really go to Oz or was it a dream? Because, in return to Oz at the end, she sees Ozma (the good witch in her mirror) or was that just her imagination/a dream too?
Answer: Return to Oz was not a direct sequel to the 1939 film. One was developed by Disney and the other by MGM. Return to Oz is actually an adaptation-fusion of the second and third Oz books, that contains elements from the 1939 film (like the Ruby slippers and the Oz/Kansas counterparts) because that's what people are most familiar.
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Answer: In the film it's left ambiguous. At the end it's strongly implied that she was dreaming. The characters she meets all look like people she actually knows. In the original book, she actually went to Oz.