plot_synopsis: The film begins in Kansas, which is depicted in a sepia tone. Dorothy Gale lives with her dog Toto on the farm of her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. Dorothy's dog gets in trouble with a mean neighbor, Miss Almira Gulch, when Toto bites her. However, Dorothy's family and the farmhands are all too busy to pay her any attention. Miss Gulch arrives with permission from the sheriff to have Toto put down. She takes him away, but he escapes and returns to Dorothy, who then decides to run away from home, fearing that Miss Gulch will return.
  They meet Professor Marvel, a phony but kindly fortune teller, who 
plot_synopsis_sum: Dorothy Gale lives with her dog Toto on the farm of her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. The film begins in Kansas, which is depicted in a sepia tone.