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Written in 1900 by L Frank Baum, a Chicago merchant and journalist who went on to become a chicken breeder, actor, boutique owner, and film director in Hollywood, as well as a lifelong admirer of all things inventive and modern, this story has become an American classic. His life spanned an era of incredible invention and achievement in the United States, and many of these advances contributed to the awe-inspiring imagination of this great storyteller. This was his ambition: to write the first authentic American fairytale, and the story continues to fascinate and inspire millions of followers from all over the world, no matter what their age or background. Using previously unseen video from the Baum family archives, still images and clips from the early Oz films, as well as interviews with literary experts and American historians, this documentary depicts the tale of one man's life in tandem to the development of modern America.