Alice's Wonderland B&W Silent Laugh-O-gram Film

[email7321]

7:15 HAHAHHAAH RUN, FATASS RUN!!!

[kingcrimson234]

FAKE!!!! trains can't jump.

[HamonLord]

great film.... it's amazing that even back in the 1920's they can already impose real-life people into the cartoon worlds.

[0YTMan]

She's 5 in 1923.

[classicsguy626]

I remember seeing this cartoon on the disney channel 2001ish late at night (a year before it gave all its classic shows the boot) with the full ending. I wonder why/how they lost it within a short time?  The dvd of this short (cut version) was released just 4 years later in 2005.

[shaneyseano]

what happen to alice at the end?

[bobbobato]

Imagine, less than 10 years later Disney made the three little pigs and 14 years later Snow White. The speed with which his studio improved its art is incredible.

[bobbobato]

The repetitive movement animation and general randomness and clutter of the Cartoonland reminds me of old DOS games from the early 1990s.

[TxmxthyJS7868]

When all 4 four lions went into the treehouse looking thing I guess that's what it is I thought for sure she was a gonner and I was like oh no poor alice.

[mjknlr]

Because that's the end. She falls and dies.

[stevenjabs]

But I like the Alice's game on iphone more. It is more addictive in my opinion. 

[njnproductioninc2011]

is that the end??? that was high tech annimation for that time. You think if they could figure out how put a human into a cartoon and make cartoons dance on boards and projectors, they could easily figure out how to put sound with it. i loved her little dress did she do other things with acting besides this?

[NiamhFrancisPianist]

@njnproductioninc2011 The ending is lost but apparently she falls into her bed and wakes up, that's all

[Zizumia1]

Ahh, the animation that help start it all

[thepieroxmysox]

Its sad because they lost the ending of this film... i really want to see the rest!!! Thumbs up if u agree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mattjnor98]

Was the animator in the beginning Walt Disney himself?

[thepieroxmysox]

@mattjnor98 yepp:) im doing a biography of him for school and a book talked about this episode:)

[elbethere]

@mattjnor98 Yes.

[laurenbliven]

walt is sooo young!!!

[sowhathomiec]

I want to learn this whole piano score (:

[DannyJustiniano]

that was scary!!

[BobWXXI]

Anyone notice that in the scene where a cartoon mouse on the drawing board jousts with a live cat, the mouse bears more than a passing resemblance to our old friend Mickey Mouse? Maybe ol' Mick was on Walt Disney's mind, in at least a rough draft, a long time before Plane Crazy and Steamboat Willie, and decades before the media empire the little fellow made possible.

[ArckDesign]

@BobWXXI that mouse there is name Mortimer, which was originally create by Iwerks, one of walts' early partners (Mortimer shows up in Fiddlesticks as the fiddling mouse). But disney (after losing rights to oswald) decided to animate a cartoon base on one of his childhood pet, a mouse. He took Iwerks idea, and decided the name didn't fit, thus mickey was born. Not till 1947 till mickey got his voice...he always gave credit to Iwerks in the earlier times for mortimer. :p

[Familygirl17]

The lion just now figures out that he can eat the bars of his cage???

[Familygirl17]

That woman playing Alice's mother was Virginia's real mother.

[Familygirl17]

Why didn't Walt ever finish this?

[benjaminBarr]

This was a very interesting chapter in movie history, the animated cartoon and what Disney did with it. The atmosphere was more along the lines of silicon valley than hollywood it seems to me, with people like walt creating studios in their families garages. A unique oppertunity for people who wanted to get into the entertainment buisness to take advantage of the new technology. Disney & Iwerks remind me a little of Steve Jobs & Wozniak

[bigfisher42]

disappointed by the end! Where does she fall?! Am i alone asking myself this question?

[firearrow2000]

@bigfisher42: This is an incomplete video. In the end that wasn't included in this video, Alice wakes up and realizes that she was just dreaming.

[411314]

@bigfisher42 I think I read that the Laugh-O-Gram studio went bankrupt before they could finish. Not that that answers the question of where she would have fallen if it had been completed, but it's the reason we don't find out where she landed.

[KaliumMusic]

@bigfisher42 The studio ran out of money before they could complete this short. There IS no ending to this :P

[veryboredpug]

I'm sure this is a stupid question, but how come back in the time of silent films they could put music to them but not voices? ò.ô

[mastermalone]

@veryboredpug, I think it had something to do with not being able synchronize the sound to the film.

[hotblackmetalchick66]

@veryboredpug : The music was added later. As was standard practice then, when silent films were shown larger theater halls would hire a orchestra to play live music during the screening as well as to produce sound effects in some instances.

[hotblackmetalchick66]

@veryboredpug : The music was added later. As was standard practice then, when silent films were shown larger theater halls would hire a orchestra to play live music during the screening as well as to produce sound effects in some instances.

[veryboredpug]

@hotblackmetalchick66 but couldnt they have just done voiceovers as well? :s

[newguy90]

@veryboredpug

In Japan, theaters hired actors called benshi who stood on stage and spoke the lines from a script as the audience watched the silent film. It's one of the reasons why Japan was so slow to adopt talkies (the last major silent film was in 1939, ten years after Hollywood had already abandoned silents).

[Shoknifeman]

@veryboredpug Because in the silent days, the music was on sheets and played by a live band in the theatre as the film rolled....in smaller theatres you might have all the music played by one person on a piano or organ...sometimes the bands would do primitive sound effects too, such as a drum rimshot to simulate gunfire, for instance

[AllEpicAllDay]

hahaha the white cat beat the black cat in a fight :D

[xxxjustine]

this looks so familiar, like i've seen it before. but i really don't think i have. have snippets been featured in other movies or commercials?

[lordfumblesquid]

can i just say that this is beautiful? the little girl is majorly cute.

[CrummyCurtis]

I hope the Academy remembers Viriginia in tonight's "In Memorium" section at the Oscars on ABC tonight. In her small way, Virginia helped to make many of those jobs at ABC parent company Disney possible.

[Sakura629]

heh heh I love this! 5 stars!!

[ratterchan]

What a sweetheart! She was so cute when she was dancing. It's a shame she passed away.

[ZEPTARtheBLOB]

Very special for its time and must of influence such films as 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' and 'Space Jam'

[secession2020]

Hmmm, perhaps Walt and Lewis Carroll had more in common than previously thought... and I mean that in the worst possible way.

[Recylopse]

That film was so good. The part where the lions chase her made me laugh.

[GameStation3]

Why was the music changed for the version on the Disney Rarities DVD?

[WWEChampion16]

The Studio sure likes to see their cartoons fight.

[gypsies0]

Yay Alice!

[229095]

In its own way, this is such a metaphor for everything Walt did in his life, and beyond it. (And I do NOT understand how anyone in their right might mind, free of the gutter, could call this "disgusting.")

[Easydollars]

Disgusting !

[CDCB2]

This is the cut version. It's missing the scene at the end where she wakes up and realises it was all a dream.

[nostalgiajunkie70]

Tell me if I am crazy, but does the music from 6:15 to 6:28 sound familiar?

[littlematty1989]

It sounds a tiny bit like "Chim Chim Cherree" from Mary Poppins.

[MistrMyke]

This series of animated shorts was Walt Disney's first success; years before Mickey Mouse.

[cybergirl8]

An amazing film for 1923! Sorry to learn about Ms. Davis' death. Her legend lives on in these classic early films by Walt Disney and Ubbe Iwwerks. Great to watch the classics online!

[jmfcritter]

She was a very pretty little girl. It's interesting to see the pioneers of the film industry. May she rest in peace .

[jsjunot]

Virginia Davis passed away August 15, 2009...RIP Alice...

[LFirstbasema]

Walt Disney was featured in this one!

[mimilala89]

Virginia Davis was so adorable!

[Disneygreatestsongs]

there is walt disney

[JohnnyHGT]

This is not a dream,

it´s a nightmare when

all end into a falling.

"Alice's Wonderland is a 1923 Walt Disney short silent film, in black and white. Finally, she jumps off a cliff and awakes back in her bed. The end of the film is lost."

Virginia Davis as Alice.

[Disneygreatestsongs]

Well, it wasn't fully finnished because when Disney was half way done with the animation the Laugh-O-Gram company went bankrupt. Then when he got some money he started to finnish the film, but no one knows the ending.

[MistrMyke]

Walt moved to California and in 1923, based upon this film, he sold a series of 13 films to a New York distributor.

[Limp73]

Innocence is a beautiful !thing..Before there was Annette Funicello,Haley Mills,Lizzie McGuire and Hanna Montana there was Virginia Davis as Alice. Disney and kids have been inseperable ever since!

Sometimes I still wish I can take an escape vacation into the cartoon world.

[XrainbowXcarnage]

It's amazing what you can find on the internet,

thanks so much for posting this :]

[HeweHaarlemmer]

walt touches alice weird

then points to danger

what is this little girl doing on her own with these men?

ugggggg this is horrible

[andrewd01]

Oh shhh. God forbid affection toward children. What a sad, cynical world it has become...

[ch33t0sss]

omg walt was HOTT SEXXII YUMMY!!! ... when he was alive

[rickymolotov]

Wow! You guys rock! I can't believe I found this gem so easily... Thanks for posting this!!!!!

[wanghobb]

that cat on the desk is dead by now

[danielchance]

yeah, but it was able to be captured on film, though

[ch33t0sss]

HAHA so is the little girl.

[danielchance]

no she isn't, Virginia is 90 years old, and last month I got a letter from her

[danielchance]

saul? didn't expect you to comment on this, lol

But you do know that stuff is stupid and does not really work...

[sauldavidwilliams]

of course i do, but id rather this chain wudnt die on me

and anyways i like silent ilms, if theyve gt the music on it other wise im not interested

[duffster17]

i think the ending is missing. it just ends too abruptly.

[canonet17]

It ends abruptly as Walt Disney ran out of money before this could be finished.

[CDCB2]

No, there is an ending. Walt completed it. It's just cut from this video. You can see the complete version on the "Walt Disney Treasures - Disney Rarities" DVD set.

[KaliumMusic]

@CDCB2 All the sourced I've read say it was uncompleted back when it was first released. Walt maybe back and finished it later, perhaps? *shrug*

[danielchance]

I've been looking for this for ages! Thanks for uploading this. I got Virginia's autograph, and I can finally see her first film!

[KingReef777]

Excellent drama and humor. Good show!

[jacobleereed]

I LOVE THIS!!!

[Brettmacmillan]

How do people not know of this! This is awesome!