Alice in Wonderland (1915 film)
- Viola Savoy: Alice
- Herbert Rice: White Rabbit
Alice in Wonderland is an American film directed by WW Young in 1915, were converted into the motives and episodes from Lewis Carroll's story of the same name.
Action
During a walk the girl Alice falls asleep in a meadow, while her older sister is reading from a book. In her dream, Alice follows a large, white rabbit in the " Wonderland", in which she encounters strange creatures and experienced many adventures.
A mouse leads Alice to the Assembly of the animals, but scares Alice all the animals with her clumsy speech. Then she meets the White Rabbit returning, she follows in his much too small for Alice House. In the following episode meets Alice, now shrunk to thumb size, a hookah smoking caterpillar sitting on a mushroom.
After she returned to receive their correct size, they visited the Duchess, whose baby turned into Alice's care in a piglet. On her further way Alice meets the Cheshire (Cheshire Cat ) and the Queen of Hearts, which organizes a bizarre game of croquet in the garden of her palace. The Queen leads Alice to a gripping, they make it known at the beach with the green turtle ( Mock Turtle ).
After a demonstration of a lobster ballet Alice is convened together with the other animals at a court hearing in which the theft of a cake should be clarified. When Alice is called to the witness stand, she rebelled against the King of hearts and the Queen of Hearts. Then Alice wakes from her dream.
Background
The film is based on Lewis Carroll's classic children's book Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass. He is the third film version of Alice in Wonderland and with a restored period of 52 minutes, the first feature-length film based on the book. Today, there are two known copies of the film, which originally outsourced to six coils. Several scenes, including the Tweedledum and Tweedledee with the twins from Alice Through the Looking Glass, missing, the length of the surviving copies amounted respectively to about 40 minutes.
The film was, turned up on a scene, which was filmed on a beach at Cape Ann on a property in Long Iceland. Noteworthy is the costume design: The actors wear based on the illustrations by John Tenniel oversized papier-mâché heads and imaginative costumes. Also, the scenes were built with great attention to detail.
WW Young drops from his film on special effects, which some scenes were dropped. So Alice does not change, for example, their size; for a credible representation thereof to rotate seemed too complicated. Some scene changes seem so abrupt and sometimes difficult to understand. The settings shown are rigid, it can not find camera pans instead. Many of the scenes are taken from a greater distance.
The film had on January 19, 1915 premiere. Revivals of the film are known from the years 1921 and 1924.
Reviews
The New York Times described Young's version of Alice in Wonderland during a re-release in the spring of 1921 as a children's very entertaining film, which was designed by WW Young artfully. Although the film was not as profound as the original novel, but adults can also enjoy it.
Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide, a reviewer of the criticized Youngs superficial directing as the only weakness of the film.