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Alice visita uno studio di animazione, dove gli animatori le mostrano varie scene sui loro tavoli da disegno, che poi prendono vita per sfilare e ballare con Alice.Alice visita uno studio di animazione, dove gli animatori le mostrano varie scene sui loro tavoli da disegno, che poi prendono vita per sfilare e ballare con Alice.Alice visita uno studio di animazione, dove gli animatori le mostrano varie scene sui loro tavoli da disegno, che poi prendono vita per sfilare e ballare con Alice.
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Louise A. Wright
- Alice's Mother
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"Alice's Wonderland" is the beginning of a long history of Disney treatment of Lewis Carroll's Alice books. These Alice comedies were loosely inspired by them. Although this one, reportedly, wasn't theatrically released, but was rather made as a proof-of-concept for potential distributors, it's better than others from the series I've seen, including the earliest released one, "Alice's Day at Sea" (1924). Later, Disney would reference "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass" with Mickey Mouse in "Thru the Mirror" (1936) and Donald Duck in "Donald in Mathmagic Land" (1959). So, clearly Walt and company had a long-standing interest in the books besides misspelling Carroll's name in the 1951 feature-length cartoon and, as both Carroll and Walt rolled over in their graves, the 3D, CGI monstrosities of 2010 and 2016.
The other Alice comedies don't seem to have anything to do with the books besides featuring a girl named Alice, the dream framing, and her subsequent curious scenarios involving anthropomophic animals. Basically, the same thing happens in this one, except there is a place called "Cartoonland," with its obvious wordplay on "Wonderland," that Alice visits in her dream. There's also a bit of a clock motif, with the animators refereeing the boxing cats and the Cartoonland welcoming committee checking their pocket watches. Alice, as in the books, also goes through a doorway in a tree and a rabbit hole before falling in a fashion similar to that seen in other "Alice in Wonderland" films, except here it happens at the end instead of at the beginning of the dream. There's some dancing and music, too, including a pun made of jazz cats (you guessed it--cartoon cats playing jazz). Best of all, however, is that the dream is connected to the earlier studio-tour footage. One interpretation of the Alice books is that they're a parable for a girl's making sense--or nonsense--of the adult world; likewise, this film Alice is introduced to the adult world of making children's cartoons, which she then dreams about. Not bad for an early experiment in combining live-action cinematography and hand-drawn animation that was never commercially released until it appeared as an extra for DVDs and Blu-rays of the 1951 feature.
This marriage of live-action and animation was also a preoccupation of the day for the rival Fleischer Studios, including with such Out of the Inkwell installments as "Cartoon Factory" (1924), which pit the animator in a battle against his creations. "Alice's Wonderland," on the other hand, takes a different reflexive approach more akin to other studio-tour films of the era, such as "A Tour of the Thomas H. Ince Studio" or the "1925 Studio Tour" of MGM, which also highlighted the filmmaking processes of the companies, as well as advertising their stars. In "Alice's Wonderland," this also gives way to films-within-films as what the animators--the actual ones for Disney and including Walt himself--draw for Alice comes to life on the white boards, with a cat running away from a mouse and the aforementioned cat boxing match. Overall, the drawings are charming enough, and the combination of live-action and animation is effective. Sure, some of the repetitive backgrounds--such as employing the same three characters lined up for Alice's parade in Cartoonland--are relatively lazy, and there's little rhyme or reason to the occasional iris framing, "Alice's Wonderland" remains impressive for a film that was never even theatrically released, including some economical editing through eyeline matches and such to save on the double-exposure matte work and placing of a live Alice within a Cartoonland.
The other Alice comedies don't seem to have anything to do with the books besides featuring a girl named Alice, the dream framing, and her subsequent curious scenarios involving anthropomophic animals. Basically, the same thing happens in this one, except there is a place called "Cartoonland," with its obvious wordplay on "Wonderland," that Alice visits in her dream. There's also a bit of a clock motif, with the animators refereeing the boxing cats and the Cartoonland welcoming committee checking their pocket watches. Alice, as in the books, also goes through a doorway in a tree and a rabbit hole before falling in a fashion similar to that seen in other "Alice in Wonderland" films, except here it happens at the end instead of at the beginning of the dream. There's some dancing and music, too, including a pun made of jazz cats (you guessed it--cartoon cats playing jazz). Best of all, however, is that the dream is connected to the earlier studio-tour footage. One interpretation of the Alice books is that they're a parable for a girl's making sense--or nonsense--of the adult world; likewise, this film Alice is introduced to the adult world of making children's cartoons, which she then dreams about. Not bad for an early experiment in combining live-action cinematography and hand-drawn animation that was never commercially released until it appeared as an extra for DVDs and Blu-rays of the 1951 feature.
This marriage of live-action and animation was also a preoccupation of the day for the rival Fleischer Studios, including with such Out of the Inkwell installments as "Cartoon Factory" (1924), which pit the animator in a battle against his creations. "Alice's Wonderland," on the other hand, takes a different reflexive approach more akin to other studio-tour films of the era, such as "A Tour of the Thomas H. Ince Studio" or the "1925 Studio Tour" of MGM, which also highlighted the filmmaking processes of the companies, as well as advertising their stars. In "Alice's Wonderland," this also gives way to films-within-films as what the animators--the actual ones for Disney and including Walt himself--draw for Alice comes to life on the white boards, with a cat running away from a mouse and the aforementioned cat boxing match. Overall, the drawings are charming enough, and the combination of live-action and animation is effective. Sure, some of the repetitive backgrounds--such as employing the same three characters lined up for Alice's parade in Cartoonland--are relatively lazy, and there's little rhyme or reason to the occasional iris framing, "Alice's Wonderland" remains impressive for a film that was never even theatrically released, including some economical editing through eyeline matches and such to save on the double-exposure matte work and placing of a live Alice within a Cartoonland.
This was supposedly the short film that made Walt Disney famous. It was screened on Disney Channel's "Late Night Vault" program and began with an introduction. Apparently Alice, played by Virginia Davis (who would play Alice in many other shorts later on), was the basis for other Disney cartoons. She was the young actress that made Disney famous.
The movie begins with Alice visiting an animation studio where she is given samples of drawings and seems enthralled by them. Later that night while she is asleep she visits a land of animation in her dream and interacts with all kinds of cartoon animals and people.
"Alice's Wonderland" was the first of its kind and revolutionized the whole concept of film and animation as mediums. Its influence would be felt for years, through "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" to "Space Jam." In terms of entertainment this isn't the best - I'm giving it a seven out of ten based on a few factors, mainly I'm taking into consideration its effect and importance. Graded against today's animation it is, of course, very dated. But it had to all start somewhere.
The movie begins with Alice visiting an animation studio where she is given samples of drawings and seems enthralled by them. Later that night while she is asleep she visits a land of animation in her dream and interacts with all kinds of cartoon animals and people.
"Alice's Wonderland" was the first of its kind and revolutionized the whole concept of film and animation as mediums. Its influence would be felt for years, through "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" to "Space Jam." In terms of entertainment this isn't the best - I'm giving it a seven out of ten based on a few factors, mainly I'm taking into consideration its effect and importance. Graded against today's animation it is, of course, very dated. But it had to all start somewhere.
Eight years after the last cinematic attempt at an Alice film was done, this movie came out. This film is the best attempt yet at an Alice story. Alice's Wonderland (1923), is a cool combination of live action and animation. In 1921 a gifted animator named Ub Iwerks teamed up with some guy named Walt Disney in Kansas City and with their new production company, Laugh-O-Gram Studios, created this film. This film would eventually spin-off a series of Alice's Adventures from 1924 to 1927. This film was, more or less, the equivalent of a television pilot. It was shown only to film distributors in order to get interest generated in the series.
Alice (Virginia Davis), is a little girl, who gets to tour the pre-Disney animation studios of the silent era. It has Walt in the film too. Later that night, while dreaming, Alice is transported into the cartoon. The special effects, animation and the action is very entertaining. And, of course, it's Disney. Alice gets to ride on an elephant, joins a parade and is chased by escaped lions from the zoo. The animation is excellent for 1923. It has that stylish look of early Disney cartoons. Five years after this film was made, the world was introduced to Mickey Mouse. This is a very clever 1923 film, which some may say is not considered a theatrical film, because it only was shown to distributors, but even television pilots end up as canon with their series counterparts, plus I'm sure somebody made money off of this film in 1923.
Alice (Virginia Davis), is a little girl, who gets to tour the pre-Disney animation studios of the silent era. It has Walt in the film too. Later that night, while dreaming, Alice is transported into the cartoon. The special effects, animation and the action is very entertaining. And, of course, it's Disney. Alice gets to ride on an elephant, joins a parade and is chased by escaped lions from the zoo. The animation is excellent for 1923. It has that stylish look of early Disney cartoons. Five years after this film was made, the world was introduced to Mickey Mouse. This is a very clever 1923 film, which some may say is not considered a theatrical film, because it only was shown to distributors, but even television pilots end up as canon with their series counterparts, plus I'm sure somebody made money off of this film in 1923.
When Walt Disney was just starting out he worked for an advertising agency in Kansas City drawing theatrical cartoon ads and experimented with stop-action animation in his spare time. His first animation venture "Laugh-O-Grams" was unsuccessful but its last gasp before going out of business was an unfinished one-reel (12 minute) cartoon called "Alice's Wonderland".
Max and Dave Fleischer had already introduced a cartoon series called "Out of the Inkwell" which superimposed animated figures on real film backgrounds (allowing a live actor to interact with a cartoon character). Walt borrowed this idea for the first segments of "Alice's Wonderland" and for the later segments he reversed it and superimposed a live actress (Virginia Davis) on an animated background. Virginia's mother let them shoot the live scenes in her house with Virginia's aunt playing Alice's mother.
The film begins with little Alice visiting an animation studio, where Walt and Ub Iwerks are working. They show her some scenes on their drawing boards and these turn into moving cartoons, which interact with live things in the studio. The best is a cartoon mouse (imagine that) poking a live cat until it moves. Although everything was silent in 1923 some music was later added to the production.
Back home from her day at the studio, the sleeping Alice dreams of taking a train to cartoon- land. She appears in live action superimposed on a cartoon background and interacts with a variety of cartoon animals. Finally, she jumps off a cliff and after falling for a while wakes up in her own bed.
Walt ran out of money before "Alice's Wonderland" could be finished and his company was disbanded. He moved out to Los Angeles and eventually sent what had been completed to an independent cartoon distributor in New York who contracted for a series of Alice cartoons.
Virginia Davis joined Walt in California and they began cranking out the series. Eventually there would be 56 Alice cartoons although Virginia was eventually replaced over a pay dispute.
"Alice's Wonderland" was probably never really completed. It appears that at some point they reassembled it to provide an ending (basically just a repeat of an earlier scene in a different context). It is also likely that the falling scene was originally intended for a rabbit hole entrance to Wonderland at the start of the dream sequence, but was moved to the end to substitute for the unfinished portion.
These silent cartoons are surprisingly entertaining. More importantly, Alice qualifies as Disney's first enduring character and the Alice series was his first successful venture.
Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.
Max and Dave Fleischer had already introduced a cartoon series called "Out of the Inkwell" which superimposed animated figures on real film backgrounds (allowing a live actor to interact with a cartoon character). Walt borrowed this idea for the first segments of "Alice's Wonderland" and for the later segments he reversed it and superimposed a live actress (Virginia Davis) on an animated background. Virginia's mother let them shoot the live scenes in her house with Virginia's aunt playing Alice's mother.
The film begins with little Alice visiting an animation studio, where Walt and Ub Iwerks are working. They show her some scenes on their drawing boards and these turn into moving cartoons, which interact with live things in the studio. The best is a cartoon mouse (imagine that) poking a live cat until it moves. Although everything was silent in 1923 some music was later added to the production.
Back home from her day at the studio, the sleeping Alice dreams of taking a train to cartoon- land. She appears in live action superimposed on a cartoon background and interacts with a variety of cartoon animals. Finally, she jumps off a cliff and after falling for a while wakes up in her own bed.
Walt ran out of money before "Alice's Wonderland" could be finished and his company was disbanded. He moved out to Los Angeles and eventually sent what had been completed to an independent cartoon distributor in New York who contracted for a series of Alice cartoons.
Virginia Davis joined Walt in California and they began cranking out the series. Eventually there would be 56 Alice cartoons although Virginia was eventually replaced over a pay dispute.
"Alice's Wonderland" was probably never really completed. It appears that at some point they reassembled it to provide an ending (basically just a repeat of an earlier scene in a different context). It is also likely that the falling scene was originally intended for a rabbit hole entrance to Wonderland at the start of the dream sequence, but was moved to the end to substitute for the unfinished portion.
These silent cartoons are surprisingly entertaining. More importantly, Alice qualifies as Disney's first enduring character and the Alice series was his first successful venture.
Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.
Contrary to popular belief, the Disney industry was not started with that famous mouse we all know and love. It was actually started by a little girl named Alice (portrayed by Virginia Davis). This was one of the earliest uses of live action and animation. I remember seeing this short on Vault Disney. I was interested in seeing some of Disney 's early shorts that he produced. I really did not care for this one. The Alice shorts had lasted for about four more years, with Disney constantly replacing young actresses for the role of Alice.
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- QuizThis short film was never released theatrically; it was shown privately to Walt Disney's earliest distributors in 1923.
- BlooperThe dolls at the foot of Alice's bed disappear in the middle of the shot when she is being tucked in by her mother.
- ConnessioniEdited into Topolino Story (1968)
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By what name was Il Paese delle Meraviglie di Alice (1923) officially released in India in English?
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