Alice in Wonderland (1966)

Alice in Wonderland (1966)
Directed by Jonathan Miller
one of TV Series made by BBC television: "The Wednesday Play"
Weirdest & Greatest Alice Film
"Mad Tea Party"

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Film & Animation

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• Miller

[AllenLowe2]

Wild! I love how haunting the beginning with Alice is. That and how much tension is created by how dull each shot is. Just wonderful.

I think Michael Gough is playing the March Hare.

[Garrettk41]

She was asked to do it that way. I know because I heard it in the audio commentary.

[katinaanimator]

@Mr3sheds

Thanks for the response!

On Pawn Stars, they have an Ormolu clock they call the Death Clock because it was also made with gold, combined with mercury. Like the hatters at the time, they would get the mercury on their hands, absorb it into their skin, breath it in while it burned off the gold, and go mad, like the hatters. Or die.

[Mr3sheds]

@katinaanimator Milliners used to use mercury in the processing of animal fur to produce felt. Whilst not particularly toxic in its elemental form, prolonged exposure can result in symptoms related to certain forms of madness.Jonathan Miller developed the madness theme and the characters became inmates in a Victorian lunatic asylum. To quote the Cheshire Cat: "We're all mad here, I'm mad. You're mad. You must be mad or you wouldn't have come here".

[katinaanimator]

This is hands down my favorite version of Alice, and of the tea party. Only the British could lampoon British society. This version captured the eerie, dreamlike quality of the story.

I love Peter Cook's performance in this!

I can't remember the chemical, but the reason the hatter was mad was because MANY hat makers became mad in those days because of certain chemicals they worked with. I can't remember what they were though.

[hell0funkys]

"What did they live on?"

"They lived on trickle."

"They couldn't of done that, ya know, they would've been ill."

"And they were! Very, very ill."

Omg, this part made me choke on my skittles. That is soooo amazing, haha.

[ObiWanBillKenobi]

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

1. They both have quills.

2. Poe wrote on both.

[ivegotafullmoon]

@curtiswarren06 Peter Cook, comedy genius, has been recycled by many of the best performers in the past 30 years..

[yorkeysa]

Alice is so... dead! She just sits there talking to space. She looks crazier than the Hatter.

[curtiswarren06]

Guy in the tophat = inspiration for some of Noel Fielding's characters in the Mighty Boosh? Anybody else see/hear the similarity?

Just me, then. :(

[aggrh]

love her voice