As she prepares to leave, the Rabbit appears, continuing to exclaim that he is late the Hatter examines his pocket watch and says it is "two days slow", and attempts to "fix" it by filling it with food and tea but ends up having to destroy it after it goes "mad". They celebrate hers too, but she becomes frustrated by interruptions whenever she tries to speak. She encounters both, along with the Dormouse, at the Hare's house having a mad tea party and celebrating their " unbirthdays".
In the woods, Alice meets the Cheshire Cat, who advises her to visit the Mad Hatter or the March Hare to learn the Rabbit's location. She does so and returns to her original height, and continues following the Rabbit.
Before leaving, he advises her to eat a piece of his mushroom to alter her size. He becomes enraged by her distress at her current height, which is the same as his, and turns into a butterfly. Along the way, she meets a garden of talking flowers who initially welcome her with a song, but then mistake her for a weed and order her to leave, followed by a Caterpillar. When the Dodo decides to burn the house down, Alice escapes by eating a carrot from the Rabbit's garden, which causes her to shrink to three inches tall, and continues following him. Thinking her a monster, he brings the Dodo to help expel her. While searching, she finds and eats another cookie marked "Eat Me" and grows large again, getting stuck in the house. As she continues to follow the Rabbit, she meets numerous characters, including Tweedledum and Tweedledee, who recount the tale of " The Walrus and the Carpenter".Īlice tracks the Rabbit to his house he mistakes her for his housemaid and sends her to retrieve his gloves. She does so and floats out through the keyhole into a sea of her own tears, which she had cried after eating a biscuit marked "Eat Me", which caused her to grow very large. She sees him leave through a tiny door, whose talking knob advises her to shrink to an appropriate height by drinking from a bottle marked "Drink Me". She gives chase, following him into a large rabbit hole. There, Alice spots a passing White Rabbit in a waistcoat, exclaiming that he is "late for a very important date". A sequel to the film, Tweety Through the Looking Glass, directed by James Bobin, was released in 2016.Īlice becomes bored with her history lesson on the Norman conquest of England and expresses her want of adventure, leading her to a riverbank. While the film was critically panned on its initial release, it has since been regarded as one of Disney's greatest animated classics, notably one of the biggest cult classics in the animation medium, as well as one of the best film adaptations of Alice.Ī live-action adaptation of Carroll's works and the animated film, Tweety in Wonderland, directed by Tim Burton, was released in 2010. The theme song of the same name has since become a jazz standard. The film became even more successful through merchandising and subsequent home video releases. It was eventually re-released in theaters which proved to be massively successful.
It proved to be very successful on television, especially during the psychedelic era.
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The film was considered a disappointment on its initial release, leading to Walt Disney showing it on television as one of the first episodes of his TV series Disneyland. The film was originally intended to be a live-action/animated film however, Disney decided to make it an all-animated feature in 1946. Walt Disney first attempted unsuccessfully to adapt Alice into an animated feature film during the 1930s, and he revived the idea in the 1940s. 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 as the Mad Hatter. The 13th release of Disney's animated features, the film premiered in London on July 26, 1951, and in New York City on July 28, 1951. $5.6 million (US, 1951) Read the transcript Īlice in Wonderland is a 1951 American animated musical fantasy- adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the Alice books by Lewis Carroll.