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a publicity still from the Wizard of Oz showing Dorothy and Toto spacer
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Toto. Dorothy's faithful companion on her first trip to the Land of Oz.

The most famous line involving Toto appears not in the L. Frank Baum text, but in the script of the film: “Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore...”reference 1 The terrier played the straight man to Judy Garland's top banana in this one-sided exchange signifying that they had left the world of the predictable or expected. Toto, though he plays several key roles in Dorothy's adventures, is the only one of the sojourners to go unrewarded by the Wizard at the end of both the film and the book. No doubt faithfulness is its own reward.

1. Langley, Noel, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf, Michael Patrick Hearn, and L. Frank Baum. 1989. The Wizard of Oz: The Screenplay. New York: Delta.
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About the illustration: This picture of Judy Garland and Terry appears on the American Film Institute site and is owned by Getty Images. I believe that the use of this scaled-down, low-resolution image in the article “Toto” to provide commentary on the film, The Wizard of Oz, and to illustrate the subject in question where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law.
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