He did try to create amalgams in his characters though for example scenes of the Duchess were merged into those of the Queen of Hearts, and the Cheshire Cat was to sing ‘Jabberwocky’. Therefore, the Cheshire Cat’s song “ I’m Odd” was also cut and he was made to sing “Jabberwocky” in stead. The Jabberwock scene was cut from the movie. This is why Disney combined scenes from both ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ and ‘Through the Looking-Glass’ for the story-line, and characters like the Griffin, the Mock Turtle, the Duchess, the Jabberwock and Humpty Dumpty (“he was too talky”) did not pass the cutting floor and were left out. Although he did not originally intend to cut too many sequences, he realized that many characters would have to be eliminated, or else have their screen time reduced. It was also after her that Disney’s Alice was modeled, because she not only provided her voice, but she (as did several other voice actors) also acted out the role in live-action footage filmed for the animator’s reference, wearing a specially created Alice costume.ĭisney recognised that due to running time constraints and continuity demands he needed to scale the story down a bit. Lisa Davis Waltz was also considered.įinally, after more than 200 young actresses were auditioned, a 14-year-old girl named Kathryn Beaumont was picked to play the part of Alice. Then in 1945, Disney announced that Ginger Rogers was going to be the star and then a young girl named Luana Patten. In 1933, there was talk about the girl who had worked with Disney in those Alice shorts, starring as Alice. ( source) Actorsĭisney changed his mind about who was going to star in this film several times. He did however like the designs of background artist Mary Blair, because they did not resemble the sketchiness of Tenniel’s illustrations and made use of bold colors. The script was then re-written to focus on comedy, music, and the whimsical side to Carroll’s book. Again, Disney was not satisfied: he felt that Huxley’s version was too much of a literal adaptation of Carroll’s book. He assigned British author Aldous Huxley to re-write the script.
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Also, he found that the overall tone of Perkins’ script was too grotesque and dark. Because of the amount of work the movie needed and because of World War II, the project was again put on hold.ĭisney seriously started producing of the movie until June 1947. A story-reel was complete in 1939, but Disney felt that Hall’s drawings resembled Tenniel’s drawings too closely, which made them too difficult to animate. Hall to develop the story and concept art for an all-animated film. He registered the title with the Motion Picture Association of America in 1938 and hired storyboard artist Al Perkins and art director David S.
Still, Disney was not entirely put off and picked up the movie later. Disney then shelved the project, because of Paramount’s 1933 live-action adaptation.
He considered a live-action/animation version of the story, starring Mary Pickford as Alice, and in 1933 some color screen tests were made of her. Walt Disney purchased the rights to the Tenniel illustrations in 1931. Since that time he had decided that he was going to make a film based on Lewis Carroll’s story. They were about a real girl named Alice, who walked around in a drawn world. In 1920 Walt Disney had produced ‘the Alice Comedies’ his shorts which had given him his first success. Well I won’t do that.” How the movie started They patronise, they treat children as inferiors. They don’t remember what it’s like to be 12 years old. That’s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. Walt Disney loved the Alice books, probably because Lewis Carroll appreciated childhood, with which Disney totally agreed.
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.” “No story in English literature has intrigued me more than Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Walt Disney always has been fond of Lewis Carroll’s books. It was not the most successful Disney movie, but many people remember it still. In 1951, Walt Disney released a cartoon movie titled ‘Alice in Wonderland’.
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