The Wizard of Oz is an American television show.
Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes , the first version dating from 1916 , and followed by improved versions over several decades . The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy comedy-drama film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , and the best-known and most commercially successful adaptation based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum . The film was named the most-viewed motion picture on television syndication by the Library of Congress , which also included the film in its National Film Registry in its inaugural year in 1989 . The Wizard of Oz is often ranked on best-movie lists in critics ' and public polls .