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Index Return to Oz

Return to Oz is a 1985 fantasy adventure film directed and written by Walter Murch, an editor and sound designer, co-written by Gill Dennis and produced by Paul Maslansky. [1]

90 relations: Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, Academy Awards, Adventure film, Amelie Gillette, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Aunt Em, Barret Oliver, Betamax, Billina, Blu-ray, Box office bomb, Brian Henson, Bruce Boa, Chicago Reader, Cocoon (film), Cowardly Lion, Cult film, D.A.R.Y.L., David Shire, David Watkin (cinematographer), Deadly Desert, Deep Roy, Denise Bryer, Disneyland Paris, Dorothy Gale, Drew Struzan, DVD, Electrotherapy, Emerald City, Fairuza Balk, Fantasy film, Film criticism, Fiona Victory, Francis Ford Coppola, Freddie Francis, George Lucas, Gill Dennis, Intellectual property, Jack Pumpkinhead, Janet Maslin, Jay Scott, Jean Marsh, L. Frank Baum, Ladyhawke (film), Land of Oz, LaserDisc, List of Oz books, List of Oz characters, Mak Wilson, Matt Clark (actor), ..., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Michael Sundin, Mombi, Nicol Williamson, Nome King, Oogaboo, Ozma of Oz, Paul Maslansky, Piper Laurie, Pons Maar, Princess Ozma, Public domain, Rotten Tomatoes, Ruby slippers, Saturn Award, Scarecrow (Oz), Seán Barrett (actor), Silver Shoes, Sophie Ward, Stephen Norrington, Storybook Land Canal Boats, Sun-Sentinel, The A.V. Club, The Marvelous Land of Oz, The New York Times, The Tik-Tok Man of Oz, The Walt Disney Company, The Wizard of Oz (1939 film), The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Tik-Tok (Oz), Tik-Tok of Oz, Tin Woodman, Toto (Oz), Uncle Henry (Oz), VHS, Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Walter Murch, Wisconsin Death Trip, Young Artist Award. Expand index (40 more) »

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

The Academy Award for Best Visual Effects is an Academy Award given for the best achievement in visual effects.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Adventure film

Adventure films are a genre of film that typically use their action scenes to display and explore exotic locations in an energetic way.

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Amelie Gillette

Amélie Gillette is an American newspaper columnist and television writer.

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Anchor Bay Entertainment

Anchor Bay Entertainment (formerly Video Treasures), (also known as Anchor Bay Films) is an American home entertainment and production company.

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Aunt Em

Aunt Em is a fictional character from the Oz books.

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Barret Oliver

Barret Spencer Oliver (born August 24, 1973) is an American photographer and former child actor.

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Betamax

Betamax (also called Beta, as in its logo) is a consumer-level analog-recording and cassette format of magnetic tape for video.

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Billina

Billina is a fictional character in the classic children's series of Oz books by American author L. Frank Baum.

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Blu-ray

Blu-ray or Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Box office bomb

In the motion picture industry, a "box office bomb" or "box office flop" is a film that is considered highly unsuccessful or unprofitable during its theatrical run, often following significant hype regarding its cost, production, or marketing efforts.

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Brian Henson

Brian Henson (born November 3, 1963 in New York City) is an American puppeteer, director, producer, technician, and the chairman of The Jim Henson Company.

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Bruce Boa

Andrew Bruce Boa (10 July 1930 – 17 April 2004) was a Canadian actor, who found success playing the token North American in British films and television.

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Chicago Reader

The Chicago Reader, or Reader (stylized as ЯEADER), is an American alternative weekly newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, noted for its literary style of journalism and coverage of the arts, particularly film and theater.

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Cocoon (film)

Cocoon is a 1985 American science-fiction fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Ron Howard about a group of elderly people rejuvenated by aliens.

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Cowardly Lion

The Cowardly Lion is a character in the fictional Land of Oz created by American author L. Frank Baum.

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Cult film

A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following.

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D.A.R.Y.L.

D.A.R.Y.L. is a 1985 American science fiction film written by David Ambrose, Allan Scott and Jeffrey Ellis.

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David Shire

David Lee Shire (born July 3, 1937) is an American songwriter and composer of stage musicals, film and television scores.

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David Watkin (cinematographer)

David Watkin BSC (23 March 1925 – 19 February 2008) was a British cinematographer, an innovator who was among the first directors of photography to experiment heavily with the usage of bounce light as a soft light source.

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Deadly Desert

The Deadly Desert is the magical desert that completely surrounds the fictional Land of Oz.

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Deep Roy

Gurdeep "Deep" Roy (born Mohinder Purba; 1 December 1957), sometimes credited as Roy Deep, is an Anglo-Indian actor, stuntman, puppeteer and comedian.

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Denise Bryer

Denise Bryer (born 5 January 1928) is an English voice actress.

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Disneyland Paris

Disneyland Paris, originally Euro Disney Resort, is an entertainment resort in Marne-la-Vallée, a new town located east of the centre of Paris, and is the most visited theme park in all of Europe.

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Dorothy Gale

Dorothy Gale is a fictional character created by L. Frank Baum as the main protagonist in many of his ''Oz'' novels.

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Drew Struzan

Drew Struzan (born March 18, 1947) is an American artist known for his more than 150 movie posters, which include all the films in the Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, and Star Wars film series.

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DVD

DVD (an abbreviation of "digital video disc" or "digital versatile disc") is a digital optical disc storage format invented and developed by Philips and Sony in 1995.

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Electrotherapy

Electrotherapy is the use of electrical energy as a medical treatment.

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Emerald City

The Emerald City (sometimes called the City of Emeralds) is the capital city of the fictional Land of Oz in L. Frank Baum's Oz books, first described in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900).

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Fairuza Balk

Fairuza Balk (born May 21, 1974) is an American film actress.

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Fantasy film

Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds.

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Film criticism

Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium.

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Fiona Victory

Fiona Victory (born 1952) is an Irish actress.

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Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and film composer.

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Freddie Francis

Frederick William Francis (22 December 1917 – 17 March 2007) was an English cinematographer and film director.

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George Lucas

George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur.

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Gill Dennis

Gill Dennis (January 25, 1941 – May 13, 2015) was an American director and screenwriter.

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Intellectual property

Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect, and primarily encompasses copyrights, patents, and trademarks.

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Jack Pumpkinhead

Jack Pumpkinhead is a fictional character from the Land of Oz and appears in several of the classic children's series of Oz books by American author L. Frank Baum.

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Janet Maslin

Janet R. Maslin (born August 12, 1949) is an American journalist, best known as a film and literary critic for The New York Times.

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Jay Scott

Jeffrey Scott Beaven (October 4, 1949 – July 30, 1993), known professionally by his pen name Jay Scott, was a Canadian film critic.

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Jean Marsh

Jean Lyndsey Torren Marsh, (born 1 July 1934) is an English actress and writer.

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L. Frank Baum

Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919), better known as L. Frank Baum, was an American author chiefly famous for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels.

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Ladyhawke (film)

Ladyhawke is a 1985 American fantasy film directed and produced by Richard Donner and starring Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, and Michelle Pfeiffer.

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Land of Oz

The fictional Land of Oz is a magical country first introduced in the classic children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900).

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LaserDisc

LaserDisc (abbreviated as LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium, initially licensed, sold and marketed as MCA DiscoVision in the United States in 1978.

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List of Oz books

The Oz books form a book series that begins with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and relate the fictional history of the Land of Oz.

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List of Oz characters

This is a list of characters in the original sequel Oz books by American author L. Frank Baum, and in the later continued Oz series by his grandson Roger S. Baum, Ruth Plumly Thompson, John R. Neill, Jack Snow, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Eloise Jarvis McGraw and Lauren McGraw, Dick Martin, Eric Shanower, and Sherwood Smith.

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Mak Wilson

Mak Wilson (born 3 September 1957) is an English puppeteer, writer, CG animation director, mocap artist, and voice actor.

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Matt Clark (actor)

Matt Clark (born November 25, 1936) is an American actor and director with credits in both film and television.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Michael Sundin

Michael Sundin (1 March 1961 – 23 July 1989) was an English television presenter, actor, dancer and trampolinist, who is best remembered for his short time as a Blue Peter presenter (1984–85).

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Mombi

Mombi is a fictional character in L. Frank Baum's classic children's series of Oz Books.

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Nicol Williamson

Nicol Williamson (14 September 1936 – 16 December 2011) was a British actor and singer, once described by John Osborne as "the greatest actor since Marlon Brando".

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Nome King

The Nome King is a fictional character created by American author L. Frank Baum.

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Oogaboo

Oogaboo is a fictional small kingdom in the Oz series of novels created by L. Frank Baum.

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Ozma of Oz

Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, Billina the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tik-Tok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People Too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein published on July 30, 1907, was the third book of L. Frank Baum's Oz series.

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Paul Maslansky

Paul Marc Maslansky (born November 23, 1933) is a film producer and writer best known for the Police Academy movies.

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Piper Laurie

Piper Laurie (born Rosetta Jacobs; January 22, 1932) is an American stage and screen actress known for her roles in the films The Hustler (1961), Carrie (1976), and Children of a Lesser God (1986), all of which brought her Academy Award nominations.

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Pons Maar

Pons Maar (born August 4, 1951) is an American actor, puppeteer, artist and voice actor.

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Princess Ozma

Princess Ozma is a fictional character from the Land of Oz, created by L. Frank Baum.

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Public domain

The public domain consists of all the creative works to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Ruby slippers

The ruby slippers are the magic pair of shoes worn by Dorothy Gale as played by Judy Garland in the classic 1939 MGM musical movie The Wizard of Oz.

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Saturn Award

The Saturn Award is an award presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films; it was initially created to honor science fiction, fantasy, and horror on film, but has since grown to reward other films belonging to genre fiction, as well as on television and home media releases.

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Scarecrow (Oz)

The Scarecrow is a character in the fictional Land of Oz created by American author L. Frank Baum and illustrator W.W. Denslow.

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Seán Barrett (actor)

Seán Barrett (born 4 May 1940) is an English actor and voice actor.

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Silver Shoes

The Silver Shoes are the magical shoes that appear in L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as heroine Dorothy Gale's transport home.

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Sophie Ward

Sophie Anna Ward (born 30 December 1964) is an English actress.

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Stephen Norrington

Stephen Norrington (born 1964) is a British film director and special effects artist whose credits include Death Machine and the comic book adaptations Blade and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

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Storybook Land Canal Boats

Storybook Land Canal Boats is an attraction located at the Disneyland and Disneyland Park (Paris) theme parks.

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Sun-Sentinel

The Sun-Sentinel is the main daily newspaper of Broward County, Florida.

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The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club is an entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop culture media.

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The Marvelous Land of Oz

The Marvelous Land of Oz: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, commonly shortened to The Land of Oz, published on July 5, 1904, is the second of L. Frank Baum's books set in the Land of Oz, and the sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900).

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Tik-Tok Man of Oz

The Tik-Tok Man of Oz is a musical play with book and lyrics by L. Frank Baum and music by Louis F. Gottschalk that opened at the Majestic Theatre in Los Angeles, California on March 31, 1913.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

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The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)

The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900.

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Tik-Tok (Oz)

Tik-Tok is a fictional character from the Oz books by American author L. Frank Baum.

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Tik-Tok of Oz

Tik-Tok of Oz is the eighth Land of Oz book written by L. Frank Baum, published on June 19, 1914.

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Tin Woodman

The Tin Woodman, better known as either the Tin Man or (incorrectly) the Tin Woodsman (the third name appears only in adaptations, the first—and in rare instances, the second—was used by Baum), is a character in the fictional Land of Oz created by American author L. Frank Baum.

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Toto (Oz)

Toto is a fictional dog in L. Frank Baum's ''Oz'' series of children's books, and works derived from them.

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Uncle Henry (Oz)

Uncle Henry is a fictional character from The Oz Books by L. Frank Baum.

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VHS

The Video Home System (VHS) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes.

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Walt Disney Pictures

Walt Disney Pictures, Inc. is an American film studio and a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, owned by The Walt Disney Company.

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Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (originally established as Buena Vista Film Distribution Company, Inc., Buena Vista Distribution Company, Inc. and Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc.) is an American film distributor owned by The Walt Disney Company.

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Walter Murch

Walter Scott Murch (born July 12, 1943) is an American film editor and sound designer.

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Wisconsin Death Trip

Wisconsin Death Trip is a 1973 non-fiction book by Michael Lesy, based on a collection of late 19th century photographs by Jackson County, Wisconsin photographer Charles Van Schaick – mostly taken in the city of Black River Falls – and local news reports from the same period.

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Young Artist Award

The Young Artist Award (originally known as the Youth in Film Award) is an accolade bestowed by the Young Artist Association, a non-profit organization founded in 1978 to honor excellence of youth performers, and to provide scholarships for young artists who may be physically and/or financially challenged.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_Oz

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