Alice Solves The Puzzle (1925)

[Madpoltv]

lol! i wish they still made shows like this just for fun or to be funny

[0YTMan]

3:39 - Pevert cat

[0YTMan]

Nice and funny cartoon. But, where's Pete?

[AnimeYoshiGirl]

@0YTMan You didn't see the bear named "Bootleg Pete"?! At all?

[shaneyseano]

alice sounds like a man!?

[Tozzywozzy01]

@shaneyseano Syncronised sound didn't exsist at the time. The only sound would have been someone playing the music live in the theatre or a record recording. The voices have obviously been put on much later...and for some reason using 1 guy O_o

[TheMCzorro]

Pit gets stabbed?! What a cruel time

[21lindsay99]

reading the comments, all about many diffrent things. pete, epic mickey, pedophile-ish comments made to alice by the cat? isnt that felix or somethingg?

[funnyglitch]

6:10 WTF!?!?!?!? also, why are they all flirting with a little girl?

[ChrisRJ]

@funnyglitch he got pwnt

[subzero67]

The cat makes some creepy comments towards Alice.

[HCShannon]

Concerning Pete's species, I think he's like Chowder, he some weird cross between a bear/cat/and some other things, that nobody can explain!

[805eyp]

@HCShannon OMG MAN/BEAR/PIG!!!!

[jeimyandjonathan]

Sorry, but bears dont have long tails...

[Crayshen]

@jeimyandjonathan

Neither does Pete in this one. Are you getting him mixed up with Julius?

[Shoknifeman]

@Crayshen Pete started out as a bear in the Alice comedies, became a dog in the Oswald series and finally a big (And later extremely fat) cat ...since a cat was thought as the natural enemy to a mouse, in the Mickey cartoons, these days though, he looks more like a bulldog with that huge jaw!

[Marszvin]

The voices are cracking me up

[Joemamma69000]

at 1:22 she is changed to a cartoon so that she can dive into the water lol

[MalfoysMuppetMates]

Why didn't she just give him the puzzle... stupid girl

[RayPointer]

@MalfoysMuppetMates Because it was hers. Simple.

[411314]

"Another one of the Alice Comedies this one introducing us to Pete for the first time. (Anthro cat nuthin' That guy is a BEAR. Ya hear me Wikipedia?)"

Well in a lot (maybe most) of his other appearences - at least in Mickey and company cartoons if not in the Alice Comedies - he's more cat-like in appearence.

[pyr666]

how did they put live action and cartoons together back then?

[Crayshen]

It's called Matte. There's of course some information about it on the good ol' wiki.

[RayPointer]

@Crayshen Matting was not used in the ALICE COMEDIES. It was double printing of two film negatives. In some cartoons you can see the cartoon character pass in from of ALICE, and sometimes the white area of the character's face looks transparent when it passes in front. Only on rare occaisions would a "Hold Matte" be photographed with the animation, and this was usually at the insistence of Disney's distributor, Margaret Winkler. This was because the double printing washed out Alice.

[229095]

This is wonderful!

[ALEckel]

Yikes, Bootleg Pete gets impaled!

[GreenPhoenix91]

julius the cat should be in the next kingdom hearts 3.

[Crayshen]

Unless they made some major changes to his appearance, Oriolo would freak. Especially since there's a new Felix series in the works.

Oswald would be fun though. I was kinda disappointed he didn't show up in Timeless River.

[DrMecha]

That's mainly because Oswald was still Universal Property back then. Disney Co. just brought the rights back recently in exchange with a SportCaster. But at least we got Epic Mickey.

[Crayshen]

Given that the plot involves a coup by the 'forgotten' characters, he could very well end up being a main villain (But more than likely will be an ally, the game is going to act as his debut to a new generation and Disney won't exactly want to potray him in a negative light.)

My prediction for primary antagonist? Horace. Nobody remembers him.

[DrMecha]

Actually, It was confirmed that the primary antagonist is the Phantom Blob (in which Mickey accidentally created).

[TGPotet]

@Crayshen You probably already know this by now, but Oswald is going to be an ally, although he's pretty mad at Mickey for taking his place. Oswald and Mickey work for the same goal, but Oswald hates Mickey, at least in the beginning of the story.

[LFirstbasema]

That's Peg Leg Pete AKA Pete

[BrionyCoote]

Pete holds the record for longest-running Disney character. He's also the only non-human Disney cartoon character where we can't make out what animal he is. Cat? Bear? Over-grown rat? Bear probably is the closest.

[ButterOnCorn]

He is a cat

[BrionyCoote]

Yes, I think I read somewhere that they designated him a cat after his nemesis changed from Julius the Cat to Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. But what was he supposed to be before that, I wonder? I don't know if they ever explained that, and it is hard to make out from looking at him. And if he is a cat, where's his tail? Perhaps he lost it along with his original leg.

[SasukeItachi990]

I cant mske out what goofy is...

[BrionyCoote]

Goofy looks like a dog to me.

[411314]

He is.

[Crayshen]

Never claimed it was, just the first one with Pete in it.

[BrionyCoote]

I wanted to have a look at those Alice comedies, too and decided YouTube might be the place - right on!

I hope that this really was Pete's first appearance; I've read some of the Alice comedies are lost (a pity, but nobody would have attached historical importance to cartoons in those days, unfortunately), so it is a bit uncertain.

[TKGB2006]

@ 6:03

Bear: Look over there. *punches the cat

Bear: HAHAHA!

Cat: FALCON PAWNCH!!!!!!!!!!!

[shenmue15654]

i gtta admit,,, how they did live action mixed with animation is great for 80 years ago

[Kartoonkid95]

The ending crossword puzzle spells out... "AN ALICE FAFTER COMEDY - THE END".

[Spoothead12]

I loves theese old films.

[mylar6126]

Pete is the oldest Disney character still used by the Studio.

Notice how his peg-leg changes to his left leg at 5:47 and back to his right leg at 6:12.

This was always a problem because different animators drew different scenes of the film.

[CelineDeStar]

i only watched this because of the wikipedia 'Pete" article.......OMG that's Pete?!?

History is.............weird

[rhubarbcub]

Hah, that's exactly how I ended up here too! Always wanted to see some of these Alice clips; should have known to look here in the first place!

Yeah, Pete's oddly bearish here, but his species has never been as important as his overall menace and tendency to lose, which is what one needs from a cartoon villain.

[Shoknifeman]

Pete began as a bear, but, became a huge fat cat when he was paired with Mickey (Today he looks more like a dog though @_@ )

[fredjerk69]

pete's the cat with the peg leg and cowboy hat cuse thats what wikipedia says

[Crayshen]

He gets cat-like traits later on in life, but c'mon. LOOK at him in this. That tail is kind of telling don't you think?

[TheiFrancesshow]

lah o gram studios is still around but it is getting fixed up to become a muesium for disney. we need to raise some money so it will happen.

[Fibbing01]

Absoloutely fascinating. Many thanks for posting.

[paranormalium88]

Is this cat Felix?

[Crayshen]

Nope, his name's Julius. His resemblance is a marketing gimmick, copycat get it? *Is booed off stage*

[damashiidono]

Julius was a trial before the final development of Felix.

[Crayshen]

Not so much. Felix's personality was pretty much set in stone by "Felix in Hollywood" which predates this by two years.

[TheAnimationEmpire]

Yup, Felix came in 1919. Disney did his laugh-o-grams with a cat that looked like Felix, and Julius was the next step. He became the real star of these shorts. Which led to a show starring a cartoon character. Didn't make sense to just have Julius (that would be a total knock-off). Thus Oswald was born. Then Mickey. =^)

- TAE

[ViSioN86]

Mary Winkler who distibuted the Alice's Wonderland comedys also distributed Felix the cat, and asked Disney to make a similar looking cat (without being TOO close for copyright reasons). So it looks like felix on purpose, but Felix had been awhile for a little while already

[danielchance]

wow, Pete has come a LONG way since then

[youngwidow2007]

wow, pete sure looked different back then

[sailorcometh]

Thank you for posting this. I have been wanting to see this for a while. They still haven't putted this one on a Disney Treasure and I have been wanting them to. Because I love to learn about early Pete.

I hope you have Alice Tin Pony.

[Skvid]

I hope pedobear doesnt see this

[RayPointer]

This was an entry in the middle of the series that ran from 19234 to 1927. It was the first series that Disney produced after arriving in Los Angeles, and was the foundation of the Disney Studio. But it was not his first work. He had come to Los Angeles after having failed as a producer in Kansas City. His very first animated cartoons

were the LAUGH-O-GRAMS. Both the ALICE and LAUGH-O-GRAMS films are packaged in two very informative programs distributed by Inkwell Images.

[tecramos]

this cartoon is ANCIENT is 100 years old begun in 1920 and ended in 1927 this is the first cartoon and cartoon series that disney ever created this is the first episode i think

[henriquemf9]

You're wrong. It began in 1924 and this was the 14th episode. It was just the first episode with this new girl playing Alice.

[tecramos]

are you sure??whoever is 100 and something years old no??

[henriquemf9]

What? I didn't understand.

(By the way, like RayPointer said, this also wasn't the first cartoon series made by Walt Disney)

[CDCB]

Thank you for posting this! Do you have Alice's Baloon Race? If you do, please post it.

[Tabascofanatikerin]

I love such old cartoons :)

I saw this cartoon for the first time at the German-French channel "Arte" about 6 or 7 years ago.

[Bustoff3]

ah, the simple yet effective comedy of the days of prohibition. priceless. and yes, pete's 100% bear.

[MaxTutorow]

Do you have a link or something where I can download this.

[sadisticsmiles37]

i love how pete gets his butt impaled on a spike. classic cartoon violence is the BEST!!

[surfingthechaos]

Poor Pete gets impaled while a cop just stands there pulling on his nose.

[Gifted2212]

I loved this one! And yeah, he does look like a bear and I liked the crossword puzzle at the end.

Can't wait for more!