That's The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz

Oscar is two-and-three-quarters.
His cousin, Mikey, is about a year-or-so older.
They sit, together on the sofa,
utterly transfixed by a film made almost 70 years ago.
A film which transfixed their parents
and their grandparents
and their great-grandparents before them.
MGM's 'The Wizard Of Oz' is, quite simply put,
the greatest motion picture ever made. Bar none.
And this from a man who hates musicals. With a passion.
That switch from monochrome
to technicolour
will never ever be surpassed.
I remember being the only kid at school
who wanted to be The Tin Man.
He was made of metal, carried a fireman's axe
and could blow hot steam from the top of his head.
You didn't get that with either The Scarecrow or The Lion.
Scarecrows I'd seen in fields.
Lions I'd seen in zoos and on nature programmes.
But a Tin Man? I'd never encountered a a Tin Man before.
Not in Banbury.
He was the one for me.
Afterall, who needs brains or courage when you can have a heart?
Buddy Ebsen, the actor originally cast as The Tin Man
had a near-fatal reaction to the aluminum dust used in the make-up.
He had to be replaced by the actor Jack Haley,
and the make-up had to be switched to an aluminium paste.
Ironically, Jack Haley ended-up dying of a heart attack.
That happened in 1979.
In Los Angeles, California.
He was 80 years old.
Which is considerably older than young Oscar. Or his cousin Mikey.
Despite persistent rumours to the contrary,
no stagehands
or munchkins were harmed during the course of filming.