The Wizard of Oz (1933 film) City. Suits of armor sing to them, "Hail to the Wizard of Oz! To the Wizard of Oz we lead the way!" A creature resembling the A-B-Sea Serpent of "The Royal Book of Oz" extends itself as stairsteps for Dorothy to enter the coach. The Wizard is a cackling white-bearded man in a starry black robe and conical hat who produces custom seats for each of the four nervous travelers, including one for Toto (the Toto chair is mostly cut out of the frame in most video versions, but is later shown in a full shot of Toto sitting). He
Land of Oz original Oz saga. Baum characterized Oz as a real place, unlike MGM's 1939 musical movie adaptation, which presents it as a dream of lead character Dorothy Gale. According to the Oz books, it is a hidden fairyland cut off from the rest of the world by the Deadly Desert. The canonical demonym for Oz is "Ozite". The term appears in "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz", "The Road to Oz", and "The Emerald City of Oz". Elsewhere in the canon, "Ozmie" is also used. In the animated 1974 semi-sequel to the MGM film, "Journey Back to Oz", "Ozonian" is used.