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L Frank Baum, a Chicago businessman, journalist, chicken breeder, actor, boutique owner, Hollywood film director, and lifelong enthusiast for all things inventive and scientific, wrote this great American story in 1900. His life encompassed an era of extraordinary invention and achievement in America, and many of these innovations fueled the imagination of this great storyteller. His goal was to create America's first authentic fairytale, and the story continues to fascinate, inspire, and engage millions of admirers of all ages from across the world. This documentary examines how The Wonderful Wizard of Oz came to symbolize the American Dream, using previously unseen footage from the Baum family archives, still photographs and clips from the early Oz films, as well as interviews with family members, literary experts, and American historians, to tell the story of one man's life in parallel with the development of modern America.