''Violet's Dreams'' was a series of short films written and produced by L.Frank Baum with

The Oz Film Manufacturing Company The Oz Film Manufacturing Company was an independent film studio from 1914 to 1915. It was founded by L. Frank Baum (president), Louis F. Gottschalk (vice president), Harry Marston Haldeman (secretary), and Clarence R. Rundel (treasurer) as an ...

in 1915 and starring

Violet MacMillan Violet MacMillan (March 4, 1887 – December 29, 1953), was an American actress in Broadway theatre productions, vaudeville, and silent films. Early career MacMillan gained fame as the "Cinderella Girl"''New York Times'' Obituary. Dec. 30, 1 ...

. The films are not known to survive. Each film depicted MacMillan entering a different fantasy scenario, which, uncharacteristically for Baum, in spite of '' The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)'', turned out to be a dream.

Titles in the series

1. ''A Box of Bandits'' (based on "The Box of Robbers" from ''

American Fairy Tales ''American Fairy Tales'' is the title of a collection of twelve fantasy stories by L. Frank Baum, published in 1901 by the George M. Hill Company, the firm that issued ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' the previous year. The cover, title page, and ...

'') 27 August 1915
2. ''The Country Circus'' 10 September 1915
3. ''The Magic Bon Bons'' (based on "The Magic Bon-Bons" from ''American Fairy Tales'') 22 October 1915
4. ''In Dreamy Jungletown'' 1 February 1916

Re-edit

In 1917, the films were purchased and reassembled as '' Like Babes in the Woods'' by George Cochrane from a new scenario by Karl R. Coolidge. The film should not be confused with ''

The Babes in the Woods ''The Babes in the Woods'' is a 1917 American silent fantasy film directed by Chester M. Franklin and Sidney Franklin and starring Francis Carpenter, Virginia Lee Corbin and Violet Radcliffe.Solomon p.243-44 Cast * Francis Carpenter as Roland ...

'' (also 1917), an adaptation of "

Hansel and Gretel "Hansel and Gretel" (; german: Hänsel und Gretel ) is a German fairy tale collected by the German Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 in ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'' (KHM 15). It is also known as Little Step Brother and Little Step Sister. Hansel ...

" by

Chester Franklin Chester Mortimer Franklin (September 1, 1889 – March 12, 1954) was an American film director and actor active mainly in the silent era. Born in San Francisco, he was the brother of Sidney A. Franklin. In the late 1910s, he co-directed w ...

and Sidney Franklin, released the same year.

External links

''A Box of Bandits''
on

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''The Country Circus''
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''The Magic Bon Bons''
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''In Dreamy Jungletown''
on IMDb Lost American films Works by L. Frank Baum American fantasy films 1910s fantasy films American black-and-white films American silent short films 1915 films 1916 films 1910s American films {{fantasy-film-stub