Now Playing: The Patchwork Girl of Oz

The Patchwork Girl of Oz, released in 1914, produced by L. Frank Baum for Paramount Pictures and based on his book of the same name. Munchkin boy Ojo and his Unc Nunkie go in search of food and encounter the crooked magician Dr. Pipt and his Magic Powder of Life, which he uses to bring a girl made of patchwork to life as a house servant for his wife. When some of the Doctor's Petrification Potion gets accidentally spilled over his wife and Unc Nunkie, Ojo and the Patchwork Girl head off towards Emerald City looking for a cure. Watch and enjoy!

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How Las Vegas missed out on a life-sized Starship Enterprise

"In 1992, plans were in the works to create a life-sized Starship Enterprise in downtown Las Vegas. The model ship would have been roughly as long as the Eiffel Tower is tall, and would have contained all the key rooms and areas from the original Star Trek series. Vegas business owners loved the idea, and so did Paramount Licensing. So what went wrong?"  Well, anyone who remembers Majel Barrett's Trek convention tales of dealing with Paramount studio execs and accounting department should be able to guess. Still, it pays to read the full story at io9.

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From Dr. E. Bola comes this geekgasmic mashup miniseries on YouTube. See if you can play "name that movie clip." Hey! No cheating looking at the tag labels!

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