I found this version of Alice In Wonderland on BBC iPlayer. I can recall seeing at least part of it, aged four, on a black and white telly back in 1966. I couldn't understand what was happening. All I can remember, somehow, is Peter Cook as the Hatter. So having rediscovered it on the BBC's streaming service, I thought I'd set time aside to give it another go and relive the 1960s. Okayyy.... well up to where I decided 'enough' (about 30 minutes in) it was a bit like being in transcendental meditation with the Maharishi Yogi while smoking herbal cigarettes. I still didn't know what was going on. Maybe I'm not 'arty' enough to appreciate it. I mean, I 'get' The Beatles Yellow Submarine. I even 'get' The Magical Mystery Tour. And that takes some getting. But no... 'Alice' chopped and changed, was mediocrely acted by the admittedly young principle character, and I just found it too tedious to sit though to the very end, so I did the metaphorical equivalent of walking out of the cinema. I admit to not reading the book the film was based on, so maybe I'm at a disadvantage, but I wouldn't have thought that should have been a necessity when sitting down to watch a BBC TV show, even in, or especially in, 1966.
Review of Alice in Wonderland
