Underplayed Gems

Alice in Wonderland (1903)

Alice in Wonderland poster
Directed by
Percy Stow, Cecil Hepworth
Genre
fantasy film, silent film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
8 min
Rated
G
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 129 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A young girl named Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole and enters a strange world. She meets bizarre characters and changes size through special effects.

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What happens

Alice in Wonderland is a 1903 British silent fantasy film directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow. Only one copy of the original film is known to exist. The British Film Institute (BFI) partially restored the movie and its original film tinting and released it in 2010. According to BFI, the original film ran about 12 minutes; the restoration runs 9 minutes and 35 seconds. At the beginning of the restoration, it declared to be the first movie adaptation of Lewis Carroll's 1865 children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It was filmed mostly at Port Meadow in Oxford. Called a "landmark fantasy" by the BFI, the film is memorable for its use of special effects, including Alice's shrinking in the Hall of Many Doors, and in her large size, stuck inside the White Rabbit's home and reaching for help through a window. It is now available from several sources, and is included as a bonus feature on a 1996 BBC DVD. It is also included in the Vintage Cinema: Experiments in early film 1900s DVD. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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