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Central dome of Salzburg Cathedral, Austria. The cathedral was founded in 774 and rebuilt in 1181 after a fire, but it got its present Baroque style appearance under Prince-Bishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau in the 17th century.
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The Wizard of Oz is a 1933 Canadian-American animated short film directed by Ted Eshbaugh. The film is considered to potentially be the first full color animated film.
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