Alice in Wonderland (1915)
Fantasy | 19 January 1915
Directors:
W. W. Young, Marty FaustWriter:
W. W. YoungProduction Company:
Nonpareil Feature Film Corp.The 19 December 1914 Moving Picture World announced that the Nonpareil Feature Film Corp. was completing a six-reel production of Alice in Wonderland, and was "endeavoring to release picture during Christmas week." A Nonpareil advertisement in the 16 January 1915 Variety also gave the release date as Christmas Day, 1914, but it is uncertain if that date was met. The ad also listed Martin J. Faust as the director and De Witt C. Wheeler as the "picturizer"of this "$25,000 production," although credits on a re-issue print of the film listed W. W. Young as both adaptor and director.
Alice in Wonderland opened at a private exhibition on 19 January 1915 at the Strand Theatre in New York City, according to the 16 January 1915 Variety and 6 February 1915 Moving Picture World.
This appears to have been the first of only two films, both in 1915, in which stage actress Viola Savoy appeared. She was sixteen when she played "Alice." A brief obituary of her mother, Lotta Savey [sic], in the 16 October 1915 Moving Picture World, noted that she appeared with her daughter in Alice in Wonderland, but her role was not given. She may have portrayed Alice's sister. The spelling of their real last name is undetermined.
Other cast members were identified in an item in the April 1915 Motion Picture Magazine. Filming was done on a wooded private estate, reportedly on Long Island, New York.
The 17 October 1914Moving Picture World noted a film version of Alice in Wonderland due for release ...
The 19 December 1914 Moving Picture World announced that the Nonpareil Feature Film Corp. was completing a six-reel production of Alice in Wonderland, and was "endeavoring to release picture during Christmas week." A Nonpareil advertisement in the 16 January 1915 Variety also gave the release date as Christmas Day, 1914, but it is uncertain if that date was met. The ad also listed Martin J. Faust as the director and De Witt C. Wheeler as the "picturizer"of this "$25,000 production," although credits on a re-issue print of the film listed W. W. Young as both adaptor and director.
Alice in Wonderland opened at a private exhibition on 19 January 1915 at the Strand Theatre in New York City, according to the 16 January 1915 Variety and 6 February 1915 Moving Picture World.
This appears to have been the first of only two films, both in 1915, in which stage actress Viola Savoy appeared. She was sixteen when she played "Alice." A brief obituary of her mother, Lotta Savey [sic], in the 16 October 1915 Moving Picture World, noted that she appeared with her daughter in Alice in Wonderland, but her role was not given. She may have portrayed Alice's sister. The spelling of their real last name is undetermined.
Other cast members were identified in an item in the April 1915 Motion Picture Magazine. Filming was done on a wooded private estate, reportedly on Long Island, New York.
The 17 October 1914Moving Picture World noted a film version of Alice in Wonderland due for release on 15 November 1914, made by the Union Photoplay Co., which was owned by noted New York Evening World cartoonist Charles R. Macauley; however, it appears to have gone out of business shortly thereafter. It is unlikely that this Nonpareil film and the six-reel Union Photoplay Co. film are the same.
This film was re-released in 1924 by the American Motion Picture Corp. Other films made from the same source include a 1903 British Alice in Wonderland distributed in the U.S. by the American Mutoscope Company; a 1910 film entitled Alice's Adventures in Wonderland made by Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; a 1933 Paramount production directed by Norman McLeod; a 1951 Walt Disney animated feature; and a 1972 British production entitled Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, directed by William Sterling.
According to the Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database, this film is extant and widely available. The version viewed by AFI Catalog was forty-two minutes long.
After stealing some tarts baked by the cook, Alice lolls beside a brook with her sister, who reads aloud while Alice dozes. In a dream, a white rabbit leads Alice to Wonderland, where she has many strange adventures. In the company of a large mouse, for instance, Alice attends an animal convention, and later, she encounters a caterpillar who sits atop a mushroom smoking a hookah. Following their odd conversation, Alice meets the Duchess and her baby (who turns into a piglet), the Cheshire Cat, and Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and then plays croquet with the King and Queen of Hearts. They introduce her to the Gryphon, who, along with the Mock Turtle and a number of walruses and lobsters, perform the Lobster Quadrille. At the trial of the Knave of Hearts, Alice challenges the court, and cards fly all about her. Then she awakens beside the stream, a white rabbit ...
After stealing some tarts baked by the cook, Alice lolls beside a brook with her sister, who reads aloud while Alice dozes. In a dream, a white rabbit leads Alice to Wonderland, where she has many strange adventures. In the company of a large mouse, for instance, Alice attends an animal convention, and later, she encounters a caterpillar who sits atop a mushroom smoking a hookah. Following their odd conversation, Alice meets the Duchess and her baby (who turns into a piglet), the Cheshire Cat, and Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and then plays croquet with the King and Queen of Hearts. They introduce her to the Gryphon, who, along with the Mock Turtle and a number of walruses and lobsters, perform the Lobster Quadrille. At the trial of the Knave of Hearts, Alice challenges the court, and cards fly all about her. Then she awakens beside the stream, a white rabbit nearby.
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