Alice Comedies

The " Alice Comedies" is a series of cartoons produced by Walt Disney with the whole beginning of its career with Hollywood. In this series, a fore-mentioned young girl Alice lives in Cartoonland , a world of drawings animated, with inter alia characters a cat named Julius .

History

In 1923, Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks and their members of Laugh-O-Grams, Inc. based with Kansas City launches out in the production of a short film in addition to advertizing animations. The film is entitled Alice' S Wonderland and combines the catches of real sights of a little girl and animations during 10 minutes. The team has just time to finish the short film when the studio is declared in bankruptcy in July 1923. The film is thus not presented to the public. Walt Disney is a work of photographer and joins together enough money to leave to Los Angeles to join his/her brother Roy and its uncle Robert.

In California, Roy assistance to assemble a studio named Disney Brothers Studio . Walt tries to find a distributer for the series Alice Comedie by using the pilot created in Kansas City. It envoit a copy of the episode controls with several distributers. Walt Disney obtains then a contract with Winkler Pictures, studio directed by Margaret Winkler and her husband-to-be Charles Mintz. The contract then stipulates a payment of 1.500 $ by films (maximum duration from approximately 9 min). He persuades his former colleagues and the family of Virginia Davis to come to join it in California to continue the series.

The series

The series Alice Comedies includes/understands 54 dumb short films in black and white carried out by the Disney studios between 1924 and 1927. In these films, another real character appears played by Spec O'Donnell.

Alice' S Wonderland: the pilot

Alice' S Wonderland is the name of the pilot short film of the series. This short film defines the world in which then the character of Alice will evolve/move.

The synopsis of the pilot is the following:

the young Alice enters a studio of cartoons to see as the latter are created. The characters of the drawings take life and play around Alice who is delighted by these visions. The come night, Alice is turned over in her bed and dreams of the world of toons which accommodate it and play with it. After some plays, a danger occurs. A group of lions escapes from a cage and takes the young girl in hunting.

Catalog of films

Comings out date according to ''' Disney has to Z: The updated official Encyclopedia ''', Dave Smith.

1923

Alice' S Wonderland

1924

Alice' S Day At Sea (March 1st, 1924)
Alice' S Spooky Adventure (April 1st, 1924)
Alice' S Wild West Show (May 1st, 1924)
Alice' S Fishy Story (June 1st, 1924)
Alice and the Dog Catcher (July 1st, 1924)
Alice the Peacemaker (1924)
Alice Gets in Dutch (November 1st, 1924)
Alice Hunting in Africa (November 15th 1924)
Alice and the Three Bears (February 1st, 1924)
Alice the Piper (December 15th 1924)

1925

Alice Cans the Cannibals (January 1st, 1925)
Alice the Toreador (January 15th 1925)
Alice Gets Stung (1925)
Alice Solves the Puzzle (February 15th 1925)
Alice' S Egg Seedling
Alice Loses Out
Alice is Stage Struck
Alice Wins the Derby
Alice Picks the Field
Alice' S Chock Pony
Alice Chops the Suey
Alice the Jail Bird (September 15th 1925)
Alice Plays Cupid (October 15th 1925)
Alice Rattled by Rats (November 15th 1925)
Alice in the Jungle (December 15th 1925)

1926

Alice one the Farm (January 1st, 1926)
Alice' S Balloon Race (January 15th 1926)
Alice' S Orphan or Alice' S Ornery Orphan
Alice' S Little Parades (1926)
Alice' S Mysterious Mystery (February 15th 1926)
Alice Charms the Fish (September 6th 1926)
Alice' S Monkey Business (September 20th 1926)
Alice in the Wooly West (October 4th 1926)
Alice the Fire Fighter (October 18th 1926)
Alice Cuts the Ice (November 1st, 1926)
Alice Helps the Lovesong (November 15th 1926)
Alice' S Spanish Guitar (November 29th 1926)
Alice' S Brown Derby (December 13rd 1926)
Alice the Lumber Jack (December 27th 1926)

1927

Alice the Golf Bug (January 10th 1927)
Alice Foils the Pirate (January 24th 1927)
Alice At the Carnival (February 7th 1927)
Alice At the Rodeo or Alice' S Rodeo (February 21st 1927)
Alice the Collegiate (March 7th 1927)
Alice in the Alps (March 21st 1927)
Alice' S Car Race (April 4th 1927)
Alice' S Circus Daze (April 18th 1927)
Alice' S Knaughty Knight (May 2nd 1927)
Alice' S Three Bad Eggs (May 16th 1927)
Alice' S Picnic (May 30th 1927)
Alice' S Chanel Swim (June 13rd 1927)
Alice in the Klondike (June 27th 1927)
Alice' S Medicine Show (July 11th 1927)
Alice the Whaler (July 25th 1927)
Alice the Beach Nut (August 8th 1927)
Alice in the Big League (August 22nd 1927)

Did you know?

Julius has a strong resemblance to Felix the Cat and this one is not accidental. Charles Mintz which distributed also the series of Felix of Pat Sullivan insisted at Disney in this direction in order to emulate the success of Felix.

Black Pete (prémice of Stalemate Hibulaire) made its first appearance in Alice Solves the Puzzle left the February 15th 1925 and becomes malicious recurring of the series before continuing with Mickey Mouse.

a legend would like that the character of Clarabelle Cow made to its first appearance in Alice one the Farm in 1926 but the cow of this film is white and resembles Clarabelle only by its bovine state.

External bonds

The Encyclopedia off Disney Animated Shorts

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