The Wizard Of Oz Page #2

DOROTHY:

I'm not afraid of her.

MCS -- Zeke picks up another bucket of feed -- pours it into trough --

ZEKE:

Then the next time she squawks, walk right

up to her and spit in her eye. That's what

I'd do!

MLS -- Dorothy on railing -- loses her balance -- falls into pig pen --

DOROTHY:

Oh!

MCS -- Zeke reacts -- CAMERA PANS left as he jumps into pen -- takes

Dorothy's foot out of wire -- then picks her up -- CAMERA PANS right as he

carries her out of pen -- puts her down with Hunk and Hickory -- Zeke

jumps out of pen -- sits down -- wipes his brow --

DOROTHY:

Oh! Oh, Zeke! Help! Help me, Zeke! Get

me out of here! Help!

HICKORY:

Are you all right, Dorothy?

DOROTHY:

Yes, I'm all right. Oh -- I fell in and --

and Zeke --

MCS -- Zeke -- Dorothy -- Hunk and Hickory -- they all look at Zeke --

they laugh -- Aunt Em enters with plate of crullers -- CAMERA TRUCKS

forward on Hunk -- Aunt Em and Hickory -- they speak -- Hunk and Hickory

each take cruller -- go to b.g. -- CAMERA PULLS back as Aunt Em comes

forward to Zeke and Dorothy -- she speaks to Zeke -- CAMERA TRUCKS forward

as Dorothy and Aunt Em walk to b.g. -- Dorothy takes cruller -- Aunt Em

runs to b.g. --

DOROTHY:

Why, Zeke, -- you're just as scared as I am!

HUNK:

What's the matter -- gonna let a little old

pig make a coward out of you?

HICKORY:

Look at you, Zeke -- you're just as white --

AUNT EM:

Here, here, what's all this jabber-wapping

when there's work to be done? I know three

shiftless farm hands that'll be out of a

job before they know it!

HICKORY:

Well, Dorothy was walking along the --

AUNT EM:

I saw you tinkering with that contraption,

Hickory. Now, you and Hunk get back to that

wagon!

HICKORY:

All right, Mrs. Gale. But some day they're

going to erect a statue to me in this town,

and --

AUNT EM:

Well, don't start posing for it now. Here,

here -- can't work on an empty stomach.

Have some crullers.

HUNK:

Gosh, Mrs. Gale.

AUNT EM:

Just fried.

HICKORY:

Thanks.

HUNK:

Swell.

ZEKE:

You see, Dorothy toppled in with the big

Duroc...

AUNT EM:

It's no place for Dorothy about a pig sty!

Now you go feed those hogs before they worry

themselves into anemia!

ZEKE:

Yes'am.

DOROTHY:

Auntie Em, really -- you know what Miss

Gulch said she was gonna do to Toto? She

said she was gonna --

AUNT EM:

Now, Dorothy, dear, stop imagining things.

You always get yourself into a fret over

nothing.

DOROTHY:

No --

AUNT EM:

Now, you just help us out today, and find

yourself a place where you won't get into

any trouble.

MCU -- Dorothy reacts -- speaks --

DOROTHY:

Some place where there isn't any trouble.

MS -- Dorothy and Toto -- she tosses him a piece of the cruller -- Toto

eats it -- Dorothy speaks as she walks forward -- she sings -- leans

against haystack -- then walks over near rake -- CAMERA PANS right --

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