Alice's Wonderland

1923 film

Walt Disney
Hugh Harman
Rudolf Ising

Produced byWalt DisneyStarring

Walt Disney
Ub Iwerks
Rudolf Ising
Virginia Davis
Hugh Harman
Margaret Davis

Animation by

Hugh Harman
Rudolf Ising
Ub Iwerks
Carman Maxwell
I. Freleng

Layouts byUb IwerksBackgrounds byCarman MaxwellColor processBlack and white

Production
company

Laugh-O-Gram Studio

Release date

October 16, 1923 (1923-10-16)

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Running time

12:29CountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent with English intertitles

Alice's Wonderland is a 1923 Walt Disney short silent film, produced in Kansas City, Missouri by Laugh-O-Gram Studio.^[2] 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.

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...

In popular culture

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.^{[citation needed]}

Home media

The short was released on December 6, 2005, on Walt Disney Treasures: Disney Rarities - Celebrated Shorts: 1920s–1960s.^[3]

It was also included as a bonus feature in the Special "Un-Anniversary Edition" of Alice in Wonderland.

References

^ "Alice's Wonderland (1923) - Release Info". IMDb. Retrieved January 29, 2022.
^ Lenburg, Jeff (2009). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons (3rd ed.). New York: Checkmark Books. pp. 34–35. ISBN 978-0-8160-6600-1.
^ "Disney Rarities - Celebrated Shorts: 1920s - 1960s DVD Review". DVD Dizzy. Retrieved February 14, 2021.

External links

Media related to Alice's Wonderland at Wikimedia Commons
The full text of Alice's Wonderland at Wikisource
Alice's Wonderland at IMDb
The short film Alice's Wonderland is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.
Alice's Wonderland at The Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts