Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz Dorothy hopes that someday she and Toto can find their way back to the Land of Oz again. Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz is a 1987 direct-to-video animated short film introduced by Michael Gross of "Family Ties". It is based on "Ozma of Oz" by L. Frank Baum. On an ocean voyage bound for Australia with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, Dorothy Gale and Toto are swept overboard in a storm. Dorothy manages to climb in with a hen who had also fallen into the sea. Next morning, Dorothy finds the hen, whose name
The Wizard of Oz (1925 film) a villain who betrays Dorothy, Scarecrow, and the Lion. Some elements of the narrative have their roots in earlier adaptations of "The Wizard of Oz". For example, Prime Minister Kruel has a predecessor in King Krewl, the antagonist in the 1914 film "His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz". The note explaining Princess Dorothea's true heritage is signed "Pastoria", a name used for the exiled King of Oz in the 1902 stage version of "The Wizard of Oz" and for the father of Princess Ozma in Baum's 1904 book "The Marvelous Land of Oz", as well as in his later works