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1951 American animated musical fantasy film

Alice in Wonderland
1951 original theatrical release poster
Directed by	Clyde Geronimi Wilfred Jackson Hamilton Luske
Story by	Winston Hibler Ted Sears Bill Peet Erdman Penner Joe Rinaldi Milt Banta Bill Cottrell Dick Kelsey Joe Grant Dick Huemer Del Connell Tom Oreb John Walbridge
Based on	Alice'south Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Drinking glass by Lewis Carroll
Produced past	Walt Disney
Starring	Ed Wynn Richard Haydn Sterling Holloway Jerry Colonna Verna Felton J. Pat O'Malley Bill Thompson Joseph Kearns Dink Trout James MacDonald Kathryn Beaumont
Edited by	Lloyd Richardson
Music by	Oliver Wallace
Production company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release dates	July 26, 1951 (1951-07-26) (London, premiere)[one] July 28, 1951 (1951-07-28) (New York City, premiere)[1] September 14, 1951 (1951-09-xiv) (United States)
Running time	75 minutes[2]
Country	U.s.
Linguistic communication	English
Upkeep	$iii million[3]
Box office	$2.iv million (1951, domestic) $three.v million (1974, domestic)

Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 American animated musical fantasy one-act pic produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the Alice books by Lewis Carroll. The thirteenth release of Disney's animated features, the flick premiered in London on July 26, 1951, and in New York Metropolis on July 28, 1951. The film features the voices of Kathryn Beaumont as Alice, Sterling Holloway as the Cheshire Cat, Verna Felton as the Queen of Hearts, and Ed Wynn equally the Mad Hatter. Walt Disney first tried to adapt Alice into a feature-length animated film in the 1930s and revived the thought in the 1940s. The film was originally intended to exist a live-action/animated picture show; however, Disney decided to make it a fully blithe film in 1946.

The moving picture was considered a disappointment on its initial release, therefore was shown on boob tube as i of the get-go episodes of Disneyland. Its 1974 re-release in theaters proved to be much more than successful, leading to subsequent re-releases, merchandising and abode video releases. Although the moving picture received by and large negative critical reviews on its initial release, information technology has been more than positively reviewed over the years.

A live-action adaptation of Carroll'southward works and a live-action re-imagining of the story, Alice in Wonderland, directed by Tim Burton, was released in 2010. A sequel to the motion picture, Alice Through the Looking Glass, directed past James Bobin, was released in 2016.

Plot [edit]

In a park in England, a young daughter named Alice with her true cat, Dinah, listens distractedly to her sister'due south history lesson, and begins heedless of a nonsensical world. She spots a passing White Rabbit in a waistcoat, who panics of existence tardily. Alice follows him into a couch and plummets down a deep rabbit hole. Upon landing in a identify called Wonderland, she finds herself facing a tiny door, whose handle advises drinking from a bottle on a nearby tabular array. She shrinks to an appropriate height, but has forgotten the fundamental on the tabular array. She then eats a cookie that causes her to grow excessively. Exasperated by these changes of country, she begins to cry and floods the room with her tears. She takes some other sip from the bottle to shrink again, and rides the empty bottle through the keyhole. As Alice continues to follow the Rabbit after encountering a "Cacaus Race", she encounters numerous characters, including Tweedledum and Tweedledee, who recount the tale of "The Walrus and the Carpenter". Alice tracks the Rabbit to his house; he mistakes her for his housemaid, "Mary Ann", and sends her inside to remember his gloves. While searching for the gloves, Alice finds and eats another cookie and grows behemothic, getting stuck in the business firm. Thinking her a monster, the Rabbit asks the Dodo to help expel her. When the Dodo decides to burn the firm downwardly, Alice escapes past eating a carrot from the Rabbit's garden, which causes her to shrink to three inches tall.

Continuing to follow the Rabbit, Alice meets a garden of talking flowers who initially welcome her with a vocal, simply then banish her, believing that humans are a blazon of weed. Alice and then encounters a Caterpillar smoking, who becomes enraged at Alice after she laments her small size (which is the same as the Caterpillar'southward), later on which the Caterpillar turns into a butterfly and flies away. Earlier leaving, the Caterpillar advises Alice to eat a piece from different sides of a mushroom to alter her size. Following a menses of trial and error, she returns to her original height and keeps the remaining pieces in her pocket. In the forest, Alice gets stuck between multiple paths and encounters the mischievous Cheshire Cat, who suggests questioning the Mad Hatter or the March Hare to larn the Rabbit'south location, but is unhelpful in giving directions. Taking her own path, Alice encounters both, forth with the Dormouse, in the midst of an "unbirthday" tea party celebration. The Hatter and the Hare ask Alice to explain her predicament, to which Alice tries but becomes frustrated by their interruptions and absurd logic. As she prepares to leave, the Rabbit appears and the Hatter attempts to repair his pocket sentinel, which results in its devastation. Alice attempts to follow the Rabbit after he is ejected from the premises, but decides to get home instead. Unfortunately, her surroundings completely change, leaving her lost in the woods.

The Cheshire Cat reappears to the despondent Alice and offers a path to the hot-headed Queen of Hearts, the simply ane who can have her dwelling house. In the Queen'southward labyrinthine garden, Alice witnesses the Queen – whom the Rabbit serves equally a chamberlain – sentencing a trio of playing cards to decapitation for painting mistakenly-planted white rosebushes red. The Queen invites a reluctant Alice to play against her in a croquet match, in which live flamingos, card guards, and hedgehogs are used as equipment. The equipment rig the game in favor of the Queen. The Cat appears again and plays a play a trick on on the Queen, setting up Alice to be framed. Before the Queen can sentence her to decapitation, the Male monarch suggests a formal trial. At Alice's trial, the Cat invokes more anarchy by having Alice point him out, causing 1 of the witnesses – the Dormouse – to panic. Equally the Queen sentences Alice to decapitation, Alice eats the mushroom pieces to grow large, momentarily intimidating the courtroom. All the same, the mushroom's result is short-lived, forcing Alice to abscond through the deteriorating realm with a large crowd in pursuit. When Alice reaches the small door she encountered, she sees herself sleeping through the keyhole. Alice emerges from her dream, and she returns abode for tea with her sis.

Vox bandage [edit]

• Kathryn Beaumont as Alice
• Ed Wynn every bit Mad Hatter
• Jerry Colonna as March Hare
• Richard Haydn equally Caterpillar
• Sterling Holloway every bit Cheshire True cat
• Verna Felton as Queen of Hearts
• J. Pat O'Malley as Tweedledum and Tweedledee/Walrus and Carpenter/Mother Oyster
• Bill Thompson as White Rabbit/The Dodo
• Heather Angel as Alice's sister
• Joseph Kearns as Doorknob
• Larry Grayness as Bill the Cadger/Card Painter
• Queenie Leonard as A Bird in a Tree/Snooty Blossom
• Dink Trout as King of Hearts
• Doris Lloyd as The Rose
• Jimmy MacDonald every bit Dormouse/Flamingos
• The Mellomen (Thurl Ravenscroft, Pecker Lee, Max Smith, and Bob Hamlin) every bit Card Painters
• Don Barclay as Other Cards
• Lucille Elation as Sunflower and Tulip^[iv]
• Pinto Colvig equally The Flamingos
• Tommy Luske as Young Pansy
• Marni Nixon as The Singing Flowers
• Norma Zimmer as The White Rose

Directing animators [edit]

Directing animators are:^[v]

• Marc Davis (Alice and the eyeglasses fauna)
• Milt Kahl (The Dodo, Alice, Flamingo, Hedgehog, White Rabbit)
• Eric Larson (Alice, Dinah, Caterpillar, Cheshire Cat, Queen of Hearts, Flamingo)
• Frank Thomas (Doorknob, Queen of Hearts, Wonderland Creatures)
• Ollie Johnston (Alice, Rex of Hearts)
• Ward Kimball (Tweedledee and Tweedledum, The Walrus and The Carpenter, Oysters, Cheshire Cat, Mad Hatter, March Hare, Dormouse)
• John Lounsbery (Flowers, Caterpillar, Cheshire True cat, Mad Hatter, March Hare, Wonderland creatures)
• Wolfgang Reitherman (White Rabbit, The Carpenter, The Dullard, Mad Hatter, March Hare)
• Les Clark (Alice, Wonderland creatures)
• Norm Ferguson (The Walrus and The Carpenter)

Production [edit]

Development [edit]

Alice as shown in the film'south trailer

Walt Disney was familiar with Lewis Carroll'south Alice books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871), and had read them as a school boy.^{[half dozen]}

In 1923, he was a 21-year-former aspiring filmmaker working at the Laugh-O-Gram Studio in Kansas City, making the unsuccessful brusk drawing series by the name of Newman Laugh-O-Grams. The last of Newman Express joy-O-Grams was called Alice'south Wonderland, which was loosely inspired by the Alice books. The short featured a live-action daughter (Virginia Davis) interacting with an blithe world. Faced with business problems, however, the Laugh-O-Gram Studio went bankrupt in July 1923, and the film was never released to the general public. Nonetheless, Disney left for Hollywood and used the film to show to potential distributors. Margaret J. Winkler of Winkler Pictures agreed to distribute the Alice Comedies, and Disney partnered with his older brother Roy O. Disney and re-hired Kansas Urban center co-workers including Ub Iwerks, Rudolph Ising, Friz Freleng, Carman Maxwell and Hugh Harman to grade the Disney Brothers Studios, which was subsequently re-branded Walt Disney Productions.^[vii] The serial began in 1924 before being retired in 1927.

In 1933, Disney considered making a feature-length animated-and-live-action version of Alice starring Mary Pickford.^{[6] [8]} All the same, these plans were eventually scrapped in favor of Snow White and the Vii Dwarfs, mainly considering Disney was put off by Paramount'due south 1933 alive-activeness adaptation Alice in Wonderland.^[6] Still, Disney did non completely abandon the idea of adapting Alice, and in 1936 he fabricated the Mickey Mouse cartoon Thru the Mirror.

In 1938, afterward the enormous success of Snow White, Disney bought the movie rights of Alice in Wonderland with Sir John Tenniel's illustrations,^[9] and officially registered the title with the Motility Motion picture Association of America. He then hired storyboard creative person Al Perkins and art director David South. Hall to develop the story and concept art for the motion-picture show.^[6] A story reel was completed in 1939, but Disney was not pleased; he felt that Hall's drawings resembled Tenniel's drawings also closely, making them too difficult to breathing, and that the overall tone of Perkins' script was too grotesque and nighttime.^[6] Realizing the amount of piece of work needed for Alice in Wonderland, and with the economical devastation of Earth State of war II and the production demands of Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Bambi, Disney shelved production on Alice in Wonderland soon after the screening.^[8]

In fall 1945, soon afterwards the war ended, Disney revived Alice in Wonderland and hired British author Aldous Huxley to re-write the script. Huxley devised a story in which Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell (the inspiration for Alice) were misunderstood and persecuted following the volume's publication. In Huxley'south story, stage actress Ellen Terry was sympathetic to both Carroll and Liddell, and Queen Victoria served as the deus ex machina, validating Carroll due to her appreciation for the book.^[10] Disney considered kid actress Margaret O'Brien for the championship role.^[xi] However, he felt that Huxley'due south version was too literal an accommodation of Carroll'south book.^[8] Background artist Mary Blair submitted some concept drawings for Alice in Wonderland. Blair's paintings moved abroad from Tenniel's detailed illustrations past taking a modernist opinion, using bold and unreal colors. Walt liked Blair's designs, and the script was re-written to focus on comedy, music, and the whimsical side of Carroll's books.^[8]

Around this time, Disney considered making a alive-action-and-animated version of Alice in Wonderland (similar to his brusque Alice Comedies) that would star Ginger Rogers and would utilize the recently developed sodium vapor process.^[9] Lisa Davis (who later voiced Anita Radcliffe in Ane Hundred and I Dalmatians) and Luana Patten were also considered for the role of Alice.^{[8] [12]} However, Disney soon realized that he could only do justice to the book by making an all-animated characteristic and, in 1946, piece of work began on Alice in Wonderland.^[vi] With the motion-picture show tentatively scheduled for release in 1950,^[13] animation crews on Alice in Wonderland and Cinderella effectively competed against each other to meet which film would finish commencement.^[11] By early 1948, Cinderella had progressed further than Alice in Wonderland.^[14]

A legal dispute with Dallas Bower'south 1949 film version was also under way.^{[15] [16]} Disney sued to prevent release of the British version in the U.S., and the case was extensively covered in Time magazine.^[17] The company that released the British version defendant Disney of trying to exploit their film by releasing its version at nigh the same fourth dimension.^[17]

Writing [edit]

Through diverse drafts of the script, many sequences that were present in Carroll's book drifted in and out of the story. However, Disney insisted that the scenes themselves keep shut to those in the novel since near of its sense of humor is in the writing.^[vi]

One omitted scene from the 1939 treatment of the moving-picture show occurred outside the Duchess' manor, where the Fish Footman is giving a message to the Frog Footman to take to the Duchess, maxim that she is invited to play croquet with the Queen of Hearts. Alice overhears this and sneaks into the kitchen of the manor, where she finds the Duchess' Cook maniacally cooking and the Duchess nursing her baby. The cook is spraying pepper all over the room, causing the Duchess and Alice to sneeze and the baby to weep. Afterwards a quick conversation betwixt Alice and the Duchess, the hot-tempered Cook starts throwing pots and pans at the noisy babe. Alice rescues the baby, merely equally she leaves the house the baby turns into a pig and runs abroad.^[18] The scene was scrapped for pacing reasons.

Another scene that was deleted from a later draft occurred in Tulgey Wood, where Alice encountered what appeared to be a sinister-looking Jabberwock hiding in the dark, before revealing himself equally a comical-looking dragon-like beast with bells and manufacturing plant whistles on his caput. A song, "Beware the Jabberwock", was too written. However, the scene was scrapped in favor of The Walrus and the Carpenter poem.^[half-dozen] Out of a desire to go along the Jabberwocky verse form in the picture show, it was made to supercede an original song for the Cheshire Cat, "I'1000 Odd".

Another deleted scene in Tulgey Wood shows Alice consulting with The White Knight, who was meant to exist somewhat a caricature of Walt Disney. Although Disney liked the scene, he felt information technology was better if Alice learned her lesson past herself, hence the song "Very Good Advice".^[vi]

Other characters, such as The Mock Turtle and the Gryphon were discarded for pacing reasons, though they would later on appear aslope Alice in some commercials.

Music [edit]

In an endeavour to retain some of Carroll'southward imaginative poems, Disney deputed top songwriters to etch songs built around them for use in the film. Over thirty potential songs were written, and many of them were included in the moving-picture show—some for only a few seconds—the greatest number of songs of any Disney picture. In 1939, Frank Churchill was assigned to compose songs, and they were accompanied by a story reel featuring artwork from David South. Hall. Although none of his songs were used in the finished film, the tune for "Lobster Quadrille" was used for the song "Never Smile at a Crocodile" in Peter Pan. When piece of work on Alice resumed in 1946, Tin Pan Alley songwriters Mack David, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston began composing songs for it subsequently working on Cinderella. Withal, the only song by the trio that fabricated it into the film was "The Unbirthday Song".^[19]

While he was composing songs in New York, Sammy Fain had heard that the Disney studios wanted him to compose songs for Alice in Wonderland. He also suggested lyricist Bob Hilliard as his collaborator.^[20] The two wrote 2 unused songs for the film, "Beyond the Laughing Heaven" and "I'g Odd". The music for the former song was kept but the lyrics were inverse, and it later on became the title song for Peter Pan, "The Second Star to the Right".^{[19] [21]} By April 1950, Fain and Hilliard had finished composing songs for the picture show.^[22]

The title song, composed by Sammy Fain, has get a jazz standard,^[23] adapted by jazz pianist Dave Brubeck in 1952 and included on his 1957 Columbia album Dave Digs Disney. The song, "In a World of My Ain," is included on the orange disc of Classic Disney: 60 Years of Musical Magic.

Soundtrack and Camarata version [edit]

There was no soundtrack album available when the flick was released in 1951. RCA Victor released a story album and single records with Kathryn Beaumont and several cast members that re-created the story, but it was non the soundtrack. in 1944, Decca Records had released a Ginger Rogers dramatization of Lewis Carroll'south volume with Disney comprehend art (mayhap tying in with earlier discussions of her existence cast as a live-action Disney "Alice,"^[24] Decca did indeed license the rights to release the 1951 Alice soundtrack from Disney, but later decided against it and never produced one. When Disney started its own record company, Disneyland Records, in Jump 1956, it was found to be economically unfeasible at the time to take on the fees and other costs to produce a soundtrack album.^[25]

In 1957, Tutti Camarata arranged and conducted an elaborate original production of the Alice score with Darlene Gillespie, who had shown cracking promise among the Mickey Mouse Club bandage every bit a singer. Camarata assembled a new orchestra and chorus (perhaps with the cooperation of Norman Luboff, every bit Betty Mulliner (Luboff) and choir member Thurl Ravenscroft can be heard) in the Capitol studios in Hollywood. The resulting album became i of the most influential and acclaimed studio versions of a score, garnering praise from within the industry as well as the public.^[26] The original issue (WDL-4025) depicting Alice seated in a tree with characters beneath her is highly collectible just the album was and then popular it was reissued in 1959, 1963 and 1968 with different covers, as well as story albums with books and single records, all featuring music from this album, too in translated versions of the Camarata Alice music for international recordings.

To date, the only soundtrack material ever made available on vinyl records was released outside the U.s.. In the belatedly nineties, over 45 years later the picture show'due south original release, a soundtrack album of Alice in Wonderland was finally released in the U.S. on Audio CD by Walt Disney Records.^[27]

Songs [edit]

Original songs performed in the moving picture include:

No.	Title	Performer(south)	Length
1.	"Alice in Wonderland"	The Jud Conlon Chorus
2.	"In a Earth of My Own"	Kathryn Beaumont
iii.	"I'm Belatedly"	Neb Thompson
4.	"The Crewman's Hornpipe"	Bill Thompson
5.	"The Conclave Race"	Bill Thompson & The Jud Conlon Chorus
6.	"How Do You Exercise and Shake Easily"	J. Pat O'Malley
seven.	"The Walrus and the Carpenter"	J. Pat O'Malley
eight.	"Former Father William"	J. Pat O'Malley
nine.	"Nosotros'll Smoke the Blighter Out"	Bill Thompson
10.	"All in the Golden Afternoon"	Kathryn Beaumont & Chorus
11.	"A-E-I-O-U (The Caterpillar Song)"	Richard Haydn
12.	"'Twas Brillig"	Sterling Holloway
13.	"The Unbirthday Song"	Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn & Jerry Colonna
14.	"Very Good Advice"	Kathryn Beaumont
xv.	"Painting the Roses Red"	Kathryn Beaumont & The Mellomen

Songs written for the picture show merely deleted during product include:

• "Beyond the Laughing Sky" – Alice (replaced by "In a World of My Own"; this melody was afterward used for "The Second Star to the Correct" in Peter Pan)
• "Dream Caravan" – Caterpillar (replaced past "A-Due east-I-O-U")
• "Everything Has a Useness" – Caterpillar
• "I'1000 Odd" – Cheshire Cat (replaced by "'Twas Brillig")
• "So They Say" – Alice
• "When the Wind is in the E" - Mad Hatter
• "Gavotte of the Cards" - Alice
• "Entrance of the Executioner" - King of Hearts and Queen of Hearts
• "Beware the Jabberwock" – Stan Freberg, Daws Butler and the Rhythmaires (referring to the deleted character)
• "If You'll Believe in Me" – The Panthera leo and The Unicorn (deleted characters)
• "Cute Soup" – The Mock Turtle and The Gryphon (deleted characters) prepare to the tune of The Blueish Danube
• "The Lobster Quadrille (Will You Join the Dance?)" - The Mock Turtle (deleted character)
• "Speak Roughly to Your Little Boy" – The Duchess (deleted character)
• "Humpty Dumpty" – Humpty Dumpty (deleted grapheme)

Release [edit]

Alice in Wonderland premiered at the Leicester Square Theatre in London on July 26, 1951.^[28] During the film'due south initial theatrical run, the film was released as a double characteristic with the Truthful-Life Adventures documentary short, Nature'south One-half Acre.^[29] Following the film's initial lukewarm reception, information technology was never re-released theatrically in Disney's lifetime, instead existence shown occasionally on television. Alice in Wonderland aired as the second episode of the Walt Disney's Disneyland idiot box series on ABC on Nov 3, 1954,^[30] in a severely edited version cut down to less than an 60 minutes.

Beginning in 1971, the film was screened in several sold-out venues at college campuses, becoming the nearly rented picture show in some cities. Then, in 1974, Disney gave Alice in Wonderland its first theatrical re-release. The company even promoted it as a picture in tune with the "psychedelic times", using radio commercials featuring the vocal "White Rabbit" performed by Jefferson Airplane.^[31] This release was then successful that information technology warranted a subsequent re-release in 1981.^[32] Its first UK re-release was on July 26, 1979.

Marketing [edit]

Disney sought to use the new medium of idiot box to help advertise Alice in Wonderland. In March 1950, he spoke to his brother Roy about launching a television program featuring the studio'south animated shorts. Roy agreed, and afterwards that summertime they spoke to the Coca-Cola Company most sponsoring an hour-long Christmas broadcast featuring Disney hosting several cartoons and a scene from the upcoming movie. The program became One 60 minutes in Wonderland, which was aired on NBC on Christmas Day 1950.^[33] At the same fourth dimension, a ten-minute featurette virtually the making of the moving-picture show, Operation: Wonderland, was produced and screened in theaters and on television stations. Additionally, Disney, Kathryn Beaumont, and Sterling Holloway appeared on The Fred Waring Show on March 18, 1951, to promote the film.^[30]

Abode media [edit]

Alice in Wonderland was 1 of the first titles bachelor for the rental market on VHS and Beta and for retail sale on RCA's brusk-lived CED Videodisc format. The moving-picture show was released on October 15, 1981, on VHS, CED Videodisc, and Betamax and over again on May 28, 1986, on VHS, Betamax, and Laserdisc.^[34]

In January 2000, Walt Disney Habitation Video launched the Golden Classic Drove, with Alice in Wonderland re-released on VHS and DVD on July 4, 2000.^[35] The DVD contained the Functioning: Wonderland featurette, several sing-a-long videos, a storybook, a trivia game, and its theatrical trailer.^[36]

A fully restored two-disc "Masterpiece Edition" was released on Jan 27, 2004, including the full hr-long episode of the Disney television show with Kathryn Beaumont, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, Bobby Driscoll and others that promoted the film, computer games, deleted scenes, songs and related materials, which was discontinued in January 2009. Disney released a 2-disc special "Un-Anniversary" edition DVD on March 30, 2010, in lodge to promote the recent Tim Burton version.^[37] The movie was released in a Blu-ray and DVD assail February 1, 2011, to gloat its 60th anniversary,^[38] featuring a new HD restoration of the movie and many bonus features. Disney re-released the film on Blu-ray and DVD on April 26, 2016, to celebrate the picture'south 65th anniversary.

The film was released on Disney+ on Nov 12, 2019.^[39]

Reception [edit]

Box office [edit]

During its initial theatrical run, the pic grossed $ii.4 meg in domestic rentals.^[twoscore] Because of the film'south production budget of $3 million, the studio wrote off a million-dollar loss.^[3] During its theatrical re-release in 1974, the flick grossed $3.5 million in domestic rentals.^[41]

Critical reaction [edit]

Despite beingness regarded equally one of Disney'southward best blithe films today, and gaining a large following, the initial reviews for Alice in Wonderland were very negative. Bosley Crowther, reviewing for The New York Times, complimented that "...if you are not too item near the images of Carroll and Tenniel, if yous are loftier on Disney whimsey and if you'll take a somewhat boring, uneven pace, you should notice this picture entertaining. Especially should it be for the kids, who are non so demanding of fidelity as are their moms and dads. A few of the episodes are dandy, such as the mad tea party and the conclave race; the music is tuneful and sugary and the color is excellent."^[29] Diversity wrote that the film "has an hostage charm and a chimerical beauty that best shows off the Carroll fantasy. However, it has not been able to add whatever existent center or warmth, ingredients missing from the two tomes and which take always been an integral part of the previous Disney characteristic cartoons."^[42]

Mae Tinee of the Chicago Tribune wrote that "While the Disney figures do resemble John Tenniel's famous sketches, they abound in energy merely are utterly defective in enchantment, and seem more than closely related to Pluto, the impuissant pup, than the products of Carroll's imagination. Youngsters probably will notice it a likable cartoon, full of lively characters, with Alice's dream bedecked with only a impact of nightmare—those who cherish the old story equally I accept probably will be distinctly disappointed."^[43] Time stated that "Judged simply as the latest in the long, popular line of Disney cartoons, Alice lacks a developed story line, which the studio'southward continuity experts, for all their freedom with scissors and paste, have been unable to put together out of the episodic books. Much of it is familiar stuff; Carroll'southward garden of live flowers prompts Disney to revive the fashion of his Silly Symphonies. Nonetheless at that place is plenty to delight youngsters, and there are flashes of cartooning ingenuity that should entreatment to grownups."^[44]

Alice in Wonderland was met with corking criticism from Carroll fans, as well every bit from British motion-picture show and literary critics, who accused Disney of "Americanizing" a great work of English language literature.^[45] Walt Disney was non surprised by the critical reception to Alice in Wonderland—his version of Alice was intended for large family audiences, not literary critics—only despite all the long years of thought and endeavor Disney invested in information technology, the motion picture met with a lukewarm response at the box office and was a sharp thwarting in its initial release.^[46] Additionally, he remarked that the motion-picture show failed because it lacked middle.^[47] In The Disney Films, Leonard Maltin says that animator Ward Kimball felt the film failed because "it suffered from also many cooks—directors. Here was a instance of five directors each trying to height the other guy and make his sequence the biggest and craziest in the testify. This had a cocky-canceling upshot on the terminal product."^[48]

On the film aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Alice in Wonderland received an approval rating of 81% from 32 critical reviews with an average rating of 6.six/10. The consensus states, "A good introduction to Lewis Carroll's classic, Alice in Wonderland boasts some of the Disney canon's most surreal and twisted images."^[49]

Awards and accolades [edit]

The film was nominated for an Academy Award for All-time Scoring of a Musical Film, merely lost to An American in Paris.^[fifty]

Legacy [edit]

Phase version [edit]

Alice in Wonderland has been condensed into a comedy phase version entitled, Alice in Wonderland, Jr. The stage version is solely meant for middle and loftier school productions and includes the majority of the pic's songs and others including Song of the South 's "Cipher-a-Dee-Doo-Dah", 2 new reprises of "I'one thousand Tardily!", and three new numbers entitled "Ocean of Tears", "Simon Says", and "Who Are You?" respectively. This lx–lxxx minute version is licensed past Music Theatre International in the Broadway, Jr. Collection along with other Disney Theatrical shows such equally Disney's Aladdin, Jr., Disney's Mulan, Jr., Beauty and the Beast, Disney's High School Musical: On Stage!, Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida, and many more than.^[51]

References in other Disney films [edit]

• In Donald in Mathmagic Land, Donald Duck wears Alice'due south dress and has her hairstyle but brown not blond. A larger pencil bird is in the picture show too.
• Bill the Lizard appears as one of Professor Ratigan'due south henchmen in The Great Mouse Detective.
• Alice and several other characters from the film were featured every bit guests in Business firm of Mouse, and the Queen of Hearts was ane of the villains featured in Mickey's House of Villains. The Mad Hatter was also featured in Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse.
• The Mad Hatter and the March Hare were also featured in several episodes of Bonkers.
• Bill the Lizard, Tweedledum, Cheshire True cat and the doorknob also appear in the 1988 Disney moving-picture show Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
• In the opening of Aladdin, the peddler tries to sell a hookah much similar the ane the Caterpillar used.
• In Aladdin and the King of Thieves, the Genie turns into the White Rabbit.
• Weebo shows clips of the picture show on her screen in Flubber.
• An episode of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, entitled "Mickey's Adventures in Wonderland", is based on the motion-picture show.
• During the song "When You Wish Upon a Star" in Disney's Pinocchio, the Alice in Wonderland book can exist seen on the bookshelf where Jiminy Cricket is singing from. This reference can be considered indirect every bit the film was released 11 years prior to Alice in Wonderland.
• Alice and Cheshire Cat fabricated cameo appearances in episodes of The Wonderful Globe of Mickey Mouse.

Spin-off [edit]

On October 25, 2019, an undetermined animated projection focused on the Cheshire True cat is beingness developed for Disney'southward subscription video on-demand streaming service, Disney+.^[52]

On May eleven, 2021, it was announced a CGI-animated TV serial Alice'south Wonderland Baker will be released on Disney Junior in 2022. The serial will center on Alice, the great-granddaughter of the original heroine.^[53]

Live action remakes [edit]

A alive-action re-imagining, Alice in Wonderland, was released in 2010, starring Mia Wasikowska as Alice. It was directed by Tim Burton and received mixed reviews, merely grossed over $1 billion. A sequel, Alice Through the Looking Drinking glass, was released in 2016 to more often than not negative reviews and a $299 million gross on a $170 million budget.

Theme parks [edit]

Costumed versions of Alice, The Mad Hatter, The White Rabbit, The Queen of Hearts, Tweedledum, and Tweedledee brand regular appearances at the Disney theme parks and resorts, and other characters from the film (including the Walrus and the March Hare) have featured in the theme parks, although quite rarely. Disneyland features a ride-through visit to Wonderland onboard a Caterpillar-shaped ride vehicle; this risk is unique to Disneyland and has not been reproduced at Disney's other parks. More famously, all five Disneyland-manner theme parks characteristic Mad Tea Party, a teacups ride based on Disney'due south accommodation of Alice in Wonderland.

Alice in Wonderland is also ofttimes featured in many parades and shows in the Disney Theme Parks, including The Main Street Electrical Parade, SpectroMagic, Fantasmic!, Dreamlights, The Move Information technology! Milkshake It! Celebrate It! Street Party and Walt Disney'south Parade of Dreams. Disneyland contains a nighttime ride based on the film in improver to the teacups,^[54] and Disneyland Paris also contains a hedge maze called Alice'southward Curious Labyrinth, which takes its inspiration from the film.^[55] The now-defunct Mickey Mouse Revue, shown at Walt Disney Earth and later at Tokyo Disneyland, contained characters and scenes from the film.

Video games [edit]

In Disney's Villains' Revenge, the Queen of Hearts is one of the villains who tries to turn the catastrophe to her story to where she finally cuts off Alice's caput. Mickey Mousecapade features diverse characters from the film. The Japanese version, in fact, is based very heavily on the flick, with almost every reference in the game coming from the film.

A video game version of the pic was released on Game Boy Colour past Nintendo of America on Oct 4, 2000, in Due north America. Additionally, in the video games Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, Wonderland is a playable earth. Alice is also a major graphic symbol in the overall plot of the first game due to her office as one of 7 "Princesses of Middle". Other characters from the pic that appear include the Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire Cat, the White Rabbit, the Doorknob, the Caterpillar (5 Cast just), and the Deck of Cards. The Mad Hatter and the March Hare announced in portrait form too. All except the Doorknob also appear in Chain of Memories, admitting in the form of illusions made from the main graphic symbol'southward memory.^[56] While the world is absent-minded in Kingdom Hearts Two, it returns in Kingdom Hearts 358/ii Days and Kingdom Hearts coded, the latter featuring a digitized version of the world originating from data in Jiminy Cricket's royal journal.

In Toy Story 3: The Video Game, the Mad Hatter's hat is one of the hats you can have the townsfolk clothing. In Kinect Disneyland Adventures, Alice, Mad Hatter, White Rabbit, and the Queen of Hearts brand appearances.

In Disney Infinity, there are power discs based on Alice in Wonderland.

Several characters of the movie make appearances throughout the Epic Mickey-games. For instance, the cards are seen throughout Mickeyjunk Mountain in the original Epic Mickey, Alice appears as a statue carrying a projector screen in Epic Mickey 2 and Alice, the Mad Hatter, and the Cheshire Cat appear as unlockable characters in Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion.

Cover versions [edit]

The theme song of the aforementioned proper noun has since become a jazz standard by the likes of Roberta Gambarini, Neb Evans and Dave Brubeck.^{[57] [58] [59]}

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External links [edit]

• Official website
• Alice in Wonderland at IMDb
• Alice in Wonderland at the TCM Movie Database
• Alice in Wonderland at AllMovie
• Alice in Wonderland at Rotten Tomatoes
• Alice in Wonderland at Box Function Mojo
• Alice in Wonderland on Lux Radio Theater: December 24, 1951

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