TRIPPY ALICE IN WONDERLAND CARTOON CRACK

Walt tried producing an Alice feature throughout the 30s. After some hardship, Walt and his brother Roy formed Disney Brothers Studios and produced their Alice Comedies, which ran from 1924 – 1927. The short wasn’t released to the public because Laugh-O-Gram went bankrupt, but Walt loved it so much that he saved it and used it to demonstrate what he was capable of to potential distributors. Walt was twenty-one, working for Laugh-O-Gram Studio in Kansas City, Missouri, when he created a short featuring a live-action girl (Virginia Davis as Alice) interacting with an animated world.

TRIPPY ALICE IN WONDERLAND CARTOON CRACK

Walt Disney loved Alice and he had his first crack at adapting her story in the early 1920s. It fascinated me the first time I read it as a schoolboy and as soon as I possibly could, after I started making animated cartoons, I acquired the film rights to it.” Walt Disney Lewis Carroll, Laugh-O-Gram, and Alice ComediesĪlice in Wonderland is based on the Victorian nonsensical Alice books – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass – by mathematician, illustrator, poet, photographer, teacher, and inventor (deep breath) Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll. “No story in English literature has intrigued me more than Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Not only does it feature an intelligent, independent, sassy, and curious young girl – not a teenage princess – but its production and aesthetic were heavily influenced by one of the few female animators at Disney in the 1950s – Mary Blair. I, on the other hand, will defend it till my dying breath. They think the film is weird, disjointed, episodic, too short, even trippy!

When people ask me what my favourite Disney films are, they are often surprised that Alice in Wonderland is in my top five.

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