Journal of Alta California

An Oscar-Worthy Debut

Kerry Brougher remembers watching The Wizard of Oz on a black-and-white TV as a kid and missing the vibrant Technicolor beauty of the classic 1939 film. The new museum he has been overseeing will make up for what he—and others—missed.

When the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opens in Los Angeles’s Miracle Mile district next year, the first exhibit that visitors encounter, in the lobby and an adjoining room, will offer a startling contrast. “You’ll walk through Dorothy’s Kansas house all

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