The Jabberwocky from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland

While driving home from seeing Tim Burtons new movie Alice in Wonderland my daughter suggested popping in the CD recording I had purchased of her 2008 PMEA Honors Choir Concert to play the piece, Jabberwocky by Rene Clausen.

We always enjoyed listening to this very cool piece, and having just seen Tim Burtons vision of Alice, I started having an idea. How cool would it be to set this music to pictures and video from the movie?

Well, seeing as this might be beyond the scope of Windows Movie Maker, I searched for some free trial software to try out. I found Pinnacle Studio, and downloaded it.
This video is my first shot with the trial software. Enjoy.

Poem "Jabberwocky"
by Lewis Carroll

Choral Music
Composed and Arranged by
Rene Clausen

Performed at the
2008 District 1 Senior High Honors Choir Festival
Mr. Paul Carey, Guest Conductor
Mr. James Burns, Accompanist
Ms. Lorraine Milovac, Host Director
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Upper St. Clair High School Theatre
2:00PM

Film clips and high res photos of Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" obtained online. I claim no rights to any of the content.

"Jabberwocky" is a poem of nonsense verse written by Lewis Carroll, originally featured as a part of his novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1872). It is considered by many to be one of the greatest nonsense poems written in the English language. The poem is sometimes used in primary schools to teach students about the use of portmanteau and nonsense words in poetry, as well as use of nouns and verbs.

Definitions
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Bandersnatch — A swift moving creature with snapping jaws, capable of extending its neck.
Beamish — Radiantly beaming, happy, cheerful. Although Carroll may have thought he had coined this word, it is attested from 1530.
Borogove — A thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round, "something like a live mop". The initial syllable ofborogove is pronounced as in borrow rather than as in worry.
Brillig — Four o'clock in the afternoon: the time when you begin broiling things for dinner.
Burbled — Possibly a mixture of "bleat", "murmur", and "warble". Burble is also a pre-existing word, circa 1303, meaning to form bubbles as in boiling water. The Dutch word broebelen still retains this meaning of bubbling boiling water.
Chortled — Combination of chuckle and snort.
Frabjous — Possibly a blend of fair, fabulous, and joyous.
Frumious — Combination of "fuming" and "furious".
Galumphing — Perhaps a blend of "gallop" and "triumphant". Used to describe a way of "trotting" down hill, while keeping one foot further back than the other. This enables the Galumpher to stop quickly.
Gimble — To make holes as does a gimlet.
Gyre — To go round and round like a gyroscope. However, Carroll also wrote in Mischmasch that it meant to scratch like a dog. The g is pronounced like the /g/ in gold, not like gem.
Jubjub — A desperate bird that lives in perpetual passion, according to the Butcher in Carroll's later poem The Hunting of the Snark.
Manxome — Fearsome. A portmanteau of "manly" and "buxom", the latter relating to men for most of its history.
Mimsy — Combination of "miserable" and "flimsy".
Mome — Possibly short for "from home," meaning that the raths had lost their way.
Outgrabe (past tense; present tense outgribe) — Something between bellowing and whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the middle.
Rath — A sort of green pig.
Snicker-snack — An onomatopoeia of unclear meaning, possibly referring to sharpness.
Slithy — Combination of "slimy" and "lithe." The i is long, as in writhe.
Tove — A combination of a badger, a lizard, and a corkscrew. They are very curious looking creatures which make their nests under sundials and eat only cheese. Pronounced so as to rhyme with groves. Note that "gyre and gimble," i.e. rotate and bore, is in reference to the toves being partly corkscrew by Humpty Dumpty's definitions.
Tulgey — Thick, dense, dark.
Uffish — A state of mind when the voice is gruffish, the manner roughish, and the temper huffish.
Wabe — The grass plot around a sundial. It is called a "wabe" because it goes a long way before it, and a long way behind it, and a long way beyond it on each side.

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[Archimonde259]

The Jabberwock in the movie is pretty epic, with his flamelectric breath and all. But my fave Jabberwock of all remains the clockwork abomination from American McGee's Alice. Here was a true villain, the most epic of them all.

"You selfish, misbegotten and unnatural child!"

[elphie1415]

I Love Rene Claussen's version. Thanks for using it!! :D

[tronmaster6]

they should have had u fight the jabberwocky in kingdom hearts one

[Creaturelover18]

This Jabberwocky is extremely badass, punches the Care Bears-version right in his imaginary BALLS. I know that the older illustrations are scarier, but a bit too goofy nowadays.

[ninjabastard2]

@Archimonde259 i think the jabberwocky in tim burton's alice in wonderland was the best. "why?" i here you ask, two words: Christopher Lee

[OldPromise]

Its such a short poem.... yet the song can be made so long....

[Noise509]

Beware The Jabberwock

[DarthFandoro]

The way that beware the jabberwock part almost sounded like: Beware the Sephiroth!

[scoutreeve]

Amazing!

[PEZME]

Sweet music! I'm a long time Jabberwocky fan and haven't heard that before.

For any other Jabberwocky fans out there, there's a new book that tells the backstory of the poem. amazon.com/dp/B004UB7SR8

[OfficialJabberwocky]

hmm

[azbanasa342]

I love this!