Alice's Wonderland

Alice's Wonderland is a 1923 Walt Disney short silent film, produced in Kansas City, Missouri by Laugh-O-Gram Studio.[1] The black-and-white short was the first in a series of Walt Disney's famous Alice Comedies and had a working title of Alice in Slumberland. The film was never shown theatrically, but was instead shown to prospective film distributors. It was included as a bonus feature in the Special "Un-Anniversary Edition" of Alice in Wonderland.

Alice's Wonderland
Alice's Wonderland, from the Laugh-O-Grams series.
Directed by
Produced byWalt Disney
Story by
Starring
  • Walt Disney
  • Ub Iwerks
  • Rudolf Ising
  • Virginia Davis
  • Hugh Harman
  • Margaret Davis
Animation by
Layouts byUb Iwerks
Backgrounds byCarman Maxwell
Color processBlack and white
Production
company
Release date
1923
Running time
12 minutes 29 seconds
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent English intertitles

Plot

Alice (Virginia Davis) visits the Laugh-O-Gram Studio, where the animators (including Walt Disney) show her various scenes on their drawing boards. A few of them: a cat dancing to a cat band; a mouse poking at a cat until it moves; a couple of mice boxing, while the animators crowd around cheering and acting as corner-men. That night, she dreams of taking a train to cartoon-land, where a red carpet reception awaits. She appears in live action. They have a welcoming parade, with Alice riding on an elephant. The cartoons dance for her, and she dances for them. Meanwhile, lions break out of the zoo. The lions chase her into a hollow tree, then into a cave and down a rabbit hole. Finally, she jumps off a cliff and awakes back in her bed. Alice is woken up by her mother, and Alice tells her mother about her strange dream...

Credits

The eighth episode of the 2014 Cartoon Network miniseries Over the Garden Wall, entitled "Babes in the Wood", contains several direct visual references to Alice's Wonderland, including the Reception Committee scene.

References
  1. Lenburg, Jeff (2009). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons (3rd ed.). New York: Checkmark Books. pp. 34–35. ISBN 978-0-8160-6600-1.


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