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Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)

Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland (1951 film) poster.jpg
1951 original theatrical release poster
Directed by
Produced by Walt Disney
Story by
Based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll
Starring
Music by Oliver Wallace
Edited by Lloyd Richardson
Production
company
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • July 26, 1951 (1951-07-26) (World premiere-London)
  • July 28, 1951 (1951-07-28) (US)
Running time
75 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $3 million
Box office $5.2 million (US, 1951)

Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 American animated musical fantasy-comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the Alice books by Lewis Carroll. The 13th of Disney's animated features, the film premiered in New York City and London on July 26, 1951. The film features the voices of Kathryn Beaumont as Alice, Sterling Holloway as the Cheshire Cat, Verna Felton as the Queen of Hearts, and Ed Wynn as the Mad Hatter.

Walt Disney first attempted unsuccessfully to adapt Alice into an animated feature film during the 1930s. However, he finally revived the idea in the 1940s. The film was originally intended to be a live-action/animated film; however, Disney decided to make it an all-animated feature in 1946. The theme song of the same name has since become a jazz standard. While the film was critically panned on its initial release, the movie proved to be ahead of its time and has since been regarded as one of Disney's greatest animated classics, notably one of the biggest cult classics in the animation medium, as well as one of the best film adaptations of Alice.

On a riverbank, Alice spots a White Rabbit in a waistcoat passing by, exclaiming that he is "late for a very important date". She gives chase, following him into a large rabbit hole. She sees him leave through a tiny door, whose talking knob advises her to shrink to an appropriate height by drinking from a bottle marked "Drink Me". She does so and floats out through the keyhole in a sea of her own tears, which she cried after eating a biscuit marked "Eat Me" caused her to grow very large. As she continues to follow the Rabbit, she meets numerous characters, including Tweedledum and Tweedledee, who recount the tale of "The Walrus and the Carpenter".


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