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Barely one month prior to the start of World War 2, there was a film...it had a massive budget for its time and a lot of that was put toward it’s groundbreaking special effects. You see, this particular film wanted to bring its audience face to face with the deadliest force of nature known to earth….the tornado!! it was August 12, 1939, when The Wizard of Oz had one of it’s world premieres at the Strand Theatre in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin; this day in weather history.
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