Alice in Wonderland (1949)

Original title

Alice au pays des Merveilles

Directed by

Dallas Bower

Genre

fantasy film, children's film, live-action/animated film

Country

United Kingdom, France

Runtime

1h 23m

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 42 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young girl named Alice follows a white rabbit into a fantastical underground world. She encounters odd characters like a caterpillar and a grinning cat who challenge her perception of reality. The story blends live-action scenes with stop-motion puppet animation.

whimsicaldreamlikeplayfulsurrealnostalgiclightheartedcharminginventivetheatrical

What happens

Alice in Wonderland (French: Alice au pays des merveilles) is a 1949 French film based on Lewis Carroll's 1865 fantasy novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Directed by Dallas Bower, the film stars Carol Marsh as Alice, Stephen Murray as Lewis Carroll, and Raymond Bussières as The Tailor. Most of the Wonderland characters are portrayed by stop-motion animated puppets created by Lou Bunin. All of the other live actors in the film are seen only in the live-action scenes. However, they lend their voices to the Wonderland characters, and the staging of the scenes in England vs. the scenes in Wonderland is reminiscent of the Kansas scenes vs. the Oz scenes in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz in that several of the live-action characters seem to have counterparts (of sorts) in Wonderland. Among the other live actors are Pamela Brown as the Queen and as the voice of the Queen of Hearts. Stephen Murray is seen as Lewis Carroll and provides the voice of the Knave of Hearts, and Felix Aylmer, who played Polonius in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, plays Dr. Liddell, father of Alice Liddell, the real-life inspiration for Alice; he also provides the voice of the Cheshire Cat. The live-action sequences were shot in both English and French versions. Due to Disney's pre-existing arrangement with Technicolor, the movie had to be filmed with the inferior Ansco colouring process instead. Carol Marsh was 20 years old when she played the part of Alice - conceived by the novel's author as 7 years old. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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