What book reunites Dorothy with the humbug Wizard from "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900), and had one of the earliest film adaptations?
Nathaniel D. Mann Nathaniel D. Mann was an American composer best known for his work with L. Frank Baum. He composed at least two songs with Baum, "Different Ways of Making Love" and "It Happens Ev'ry Day," and another with John Slavin, "She Didn't Really Mind the Thing at All," for "The Wizard of Oz" stage musical in 1902, and in 1908, composed the first original film score (27 cues) for "The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays", one of the earliest feature-length fiction films (and the earliest film adaptations of the novels "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", "The Marvelous Land of Oz", "Ozma of Oz", "John Dough and the Cherub", and "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz", presented by Baum himself), which debuted September 24, 1908. With Baum, he also composed the musical "The King of Gee-Whiz" (dated February 23, 1905), which went through various titles such as "Montezuma" (November 1902), "King Jonah XIII" (September 1903), and "The Son of the Sun" (1905). This was collaboration with and based on a novel by Emerson Hough, which was never completed and the extant scenario published in 1969.
The Water Babies (film) The Water Babies is a 1978 live action-animated feature film, very loosely based on the book "The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby" by Charles Kingsley. The film is directed by Lionel Jeffries.