Alice in Wonderland (1903) - highlights

The first-ever film version of Lewis Carroll's tale has recently been restored by the BFI National Archive from severely damaged materials. Made just 37 years after Lewis Carroll wrote his novel and eight years after the birth of cinema, the adaptation was directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow, and was based on Sir John Tenniel's original illustrations. In an act that was to echo more than 100 years later, Hepworth cast his wife as the Red Queen, and he himself appears as the Frog Footman. Even the Cheshire cat is played by a family pet.

With a running time of just 12 minutes (8 of which survive), 'Alice in Wonderland' was the longest film produced in England at that time. Film archivists have been able to restore the film's original colours for the first time in over 100 years.

Music: 'Jill in the Box', composed and performed by Wendy Hiscocks.

This restoration was supported by The Headley Trust and The Pilgrim Trust.

To view the complete film, visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeIXfdogJbA

To find out more about the film, visit http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/974410/

To book tickets to 'Alice in Wonderland - A BFI IMAX 3D Experience', visit http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_imax/coming_soon/now_booking/alice_in_wonde...

To find out more about BFI Southbank's season of Alice in Wonderland adaptations, visit http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/film_programme/march_seasons/alic...

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[Oleilord]

im sorry but you said highlights in the title , can you explain more about that please?

[BFIfilms]

@Oleilord We uploaded two videos of Alice in Wonderland - the highlights (seen here) and the complete surviving film (9 min 33 sec). The latter is also available on the BFI YouTube channel, and should appear at the top of the suggestions column to the right of this video.

[supermarioex]

its amazing how much effort they put into the film. They went all out with the costumes and exaggerated hand gestures. Really gives the film a unique character.

[Dmviewing]

An incredible restoration job on this film. I am incredibly impressed with how good this looks.

Congratulations to all involved.

[MrXtremie]

It might sound strange, and I really love watching this clip. But when you look at something like this and compare it with today, you can only be proud on what world you live in. There's so many hate against today and people somehow never see what a beautiful and well developed world we live in today. It also has its good things but people always forget about that.

[WHOTHAFUCK]

People its not from 1903. look at the way the people on the picture move. too many FPS. also, the simulated "Damaging" is obviously the work of some programm like Photoshop, Premiere or AfterEffects. Just believe me. You just have to stop the clip at some moments and look at the way the programm-tools have cut out certain pixels that match eatch other (thats how the "magic wand" of photoshop works too, for example).

[UltimateTibu]

@DancingIsLife198 -_-

[DewkChronic]

amazing

[DancingIsLife198]

This film scares me...

[scorpietta]

@Chopin742 I am respondingf to an old post, sorry. But though the people here are all dead they may still have grandkids and prehaps even kids still alive. My grandmother is 94, my father's oldest sister is 90 and her husband is 92. They are still sharp as a tack, living independently (not the grandma, though) and he drives. With the advances in treatments these days people are living longer and longer.

[hokage97531]

i lold at the chesire cat

[blahoon]

Cheshire cat was awesome XD This is better then the remakes these days because you can feel they worked hard on this and put tons of effort into it.