TV airings of the film, the film was  edited to sell more commercial time. As the amount of commercial time on  network television gradually increased, more scenes were cut. According to  film historian John Fricke, these cuts started with solely a long tracking  shot of Munchkin Land after Dorothy arrives there. The rest of the film  remained intact. Also according to Fricke, more wholesale cutting of the film  took place when CBS regained the TV rights in 1975. By the 1980s, the other  excised shots included: the films dedication in the opening credits,  continuity shots of Dorothy and Toto running from the farm, establishing  shots of the cyclone, the aforementioned tracking sequence in Munchkinland,  the establishing shot of the poppy field, and tiny bits and pieces of the  trip to the Witchs castle. CBS finally showed the uncut version beginning in  1985 by time compressing it. Network airings in the 1990s were uncut and not  time