Alice in Wonderland (1951)

Réalisateurs:

Clyde Geronimi
Wilfred Jackson
(suite)

Scénaristes:

Lewis Carroll (novels)
Winston Hibler (story) ...
(suite)

Date de sortie:

28 juillet 1951 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Aventure | Famille | Fantasy | Musical

Accroche:

A world of wonders in One Great Picture

Intrigue:

Alice stumbles into the world of Wonderland. Will she get home? Not if the Queen of Hearts has her way.

Plot Keywords:

Rabbit | Queen | Card | Whimsical | Reality

Récompenses:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 nomination

Avis des utilisateurs:

A wonderful Disney adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic novels.

Ensemble

Kathryn Beaumont	...	Alice (voice)
Ed Wynn	...	Mad Hatter (voice)
Richard Haydn	...	Caterpillar (voice)
Sterling Holloway	...	Cheshire Cat (voice)
Jerry Colonna	...	March Hare (voice)
Verna Felton	...	Queen of Hearts (voice)
J. Pat O'Malley	...	Tweedledee / Tweedledum / The Walrus / The Carpenter (voice) (as Pat O'Malley)
Bill Thompson	...	White Rabbit / Dodo (voice)
Heather Angel	...	Alice's sister (voice)
Joseph Kearns	...	Doorknob (voice)
Larry Grey	...	Bill (voice)
Queenie Leonard	...	Bird in the Tree (voice)
Dink Trout	...	King of Hearts (voice)
Doris Lloyd	...	The Rose (voice)
James MacDonald	...	Dormouse (voice)
Bill Lee	...	Card Painter (voice) (as The Mellomen)
Thurl Ravenscroft	...	Card Painter (voice) (as The Mellomen)
Max Smith	...	Card Painter (voice) (as The Mellomen)
Bob Hamlin	...	Card Painter (voice) (as The Mellomen)
Don Barclay	...	Card (voice)
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Stan Freberg	...	(voice) (uncredited)

Réalisé par
Clyde Geronimi
Wilfred Jackson
Hamilton Luske

Scénaristes
Lewis Carroll		(novels "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass") (as Lewis Carrol)
Winston Hibler		(story) &
Ted Sears		(story) &
Bill Peet		(story) &
Erdman Penner		(story) &
Joe Rinaldi		(story) &
Milt Banta		(story) &
William Cottrell		(story) (as Bill Cottrell) &
Dick Kelsey		(story) &
Joe Grant		(story) &
Dick Huemer		(story) &
Del Connell		(story) &
Tom Oreb		(story) &
John Walbridge		(story)
Aldous Huxley		uncredited

Produit par
Walt Disney	....	producer

Musique originale
Oliver Wallace

Montage
Lloyd L. Richardson		(as Lloyd Richardson)

Directeur de production
Ben Sharpsteen	....	production supervisor

Technicien du son
Robert O. Cook	....	sound recordist
C.O. Slyfield	....	sound director
Harold J. Steck	....	sound recordist

Visual Effects
Blaine Gibson	....	effects animator
Ub Iwerks	....	special processes
Dan MacManus	....	effects animator (as Dan Macmanus)
Joshua Meador	....	effects animator (as Josh Meador)
George Rowley	....	effects animator

Departement Animation
Hal Ambro	....	character animator
Ken Anderson	....	color and styling
Dick Anthony	....	background artist
Mary Blair	....	color and styling
Bob Carlson	....	character animator
Les Clark	....	directing animator
Claude Coats	....	color and styling
Tom Codrick	....	layout artist
Don DaGradi	....	color and styling (as Don Da Gradi)
Marc Davis	....	directing animator
Phil Duncan	....	character animator
Norman Ferguson	....	directing animator (as Norm Ferguson)
Hugh Fraser	....	character animator
Don Griffith	....	layout artist
John Hench	....	color and styling
Hugh Hennesy	....	layout artist
Ray Huffine	....	background artist
Ralph Hulett	....	background artist
Ollie Johnston	....	directing animator
Bill Justice	....	character animator
Milt Kahl	....	directing animator
Ward Kimball	....	directing animator
Hal King	....	character animator
Eric Larson	....	directing animator
John Lounsbery	....	directing animator
Don Lusk	....	character animator
Brice Mack	....	background artist
Fred Moore	....	character animator
Charles A. Nichols	....	character animator (as Charles Nichols)
Lance Nolley	....	layout artist
Cliff Nordberg	....	character animator
Kendall O'Connor	....	layout artist (as A. Kendall O'Connor)
Charles Philippi	....	layout artist
Thor Putnam	....	layout artist
Wolfgang Reitherman	....	directing animator
Art Riley	....	background artist
McLaren Stewart	....	layout artist (as Mac Stewart)
Frank Thomas	....	directing animator: "Doorknob"
Harvey Toombs	....	character animator
Judge Whitaker	....	character animator
Thelma Witmer	....	background artist
Marvin Woodward	....	character animator

Département Musique
Jud Conlon	....	music arranger: vocal arrangements
Joseph Dubin	....	orchestrator
Al Teeter	....	music editor

Divers
Walt Disney	....	presenter
Charles Palmer	....	story editor (uncredited)

Companies de production

• Walt Disney Productions

Distributeurs

• RKO Radio Pictures (1951) (USA) (theatrical)
• American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (1954) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• RKO (1953) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (BVHE) (2004) (worldwide) (DVD)
• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (2005) (Brazil) (DVD)
• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Brazil) (VHS)
• Gativideo (Argentina) (video)
• Walt Disney Home Video (worldwide) (VHS)

Autre(s) titre(s):

Alicia en el país de las maravillas (USA: Spanish title)

Durée:

75 min

Pays:

USA

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur (Technicolor)

Rapport de forme:

1,37 : 1

Son:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Classification:

Denmark:A (DVD rating) | Portugal:M/6 | South Korea:Tous | Germany:o.Al. | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | Canada:G | Chile:TE | Finland:S | Iceland:L | Peru:PT | Sweden:Btl | UK:U | USA:G (1973) | Brazil:Livre

Société:

Walt Disney Productions

Anecdotes:

The Doorknob was the only character in the film that did not appear in Lewis Carroll's books.

Goofs:

Continuité: The Caterpillar's colors are reversed when he says "Keep your temper." Normally, his body is blue-violet and his belly is light blue, but for that shot the body is light blue and the belly is blue-violet.

Guillemet:

[first lines]
Alice's sister: [reading from a history book] "... leaders, and had been of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him: and even Stigand..." Alice.
[camera zooms out to show Alice sitting in a tree, playing with Dinah and some daisies]
Alice: Hmm? Oh, I'm listening.
Alice's sister: "And even Stigand, the archbishop of Canterbury, agreed to meet with William and offer him the crown. William's conduct at first was moderate."
[Alice laughs as her daisies fall on her sister's face]

Connexions De Film:

Référencé sur El laberinto del fauno (2006)

Bande son:

Alice in Wonderland

A wonderful Disney adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic novels.

I was a little worried when I went to watch the film version of Alice In Wonderland, because I just read the novel and Disney has a tendency to dumb down the material that they make into their films with goofball romantic nonsense and cutesy talking animals. While I did get more than the traditional share of talking animals with this film (as well as a variety of other inanimate objects), the film stayed more faithful to the original story than is generally expected from a Disney film. On the other hand, this WAS made in 1951, which makes me wonder what a more modern adaptation would look like.

I read Alice In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass for English 180 (Children's Literature) at the University of California, Davis, so needless to say, I read it with more of a literary appreciation than is generally applied to children's books. I was pleased to see so many of the characters from the second novel in this version of Alice In Wonderland (such as the Cheshire Cat, the talking flowers in the garden, and Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum), although I must admit that I was slightly disappointed to see that Through The Looking Glass has been assimilated into this version of Alice In Wonderland rather than adapted into its own film, which I think is an honor that it certainly deserves.

As far as being a full length feature (although rather short at roughly 75 minutes), however, I think that this movie does justice to both stories, converting them into a single story rather smoothly, and only leaving out things that will only really be missed by people who know the novels enough to be disappointed that certain things were not included. I, for example, would have loved to see the whole chess story in Through The Looking Glass included in the film (there certainly was time for it), where Alice travels through Wonderland on her quest to become a Queen herself, but I am more than happy with how this film turned out.

One of the only things that I noticed about this film that did not match up to the quality of the novels is that the books have so much more in them for adults than the movie does. There are so many tricks with language pulled in the books, such as in the conversations with Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum as well as several other characters, that it really makes you think about the English language as a game with which an endless variety of tricks can be played. In the film, this is hugely downplayed, even if only because it is done visually and the language tricks pass by so fast that kids are almost certain to miss them and even the most attentive of adults will have a hard time keeping up with them.

As a whole, however, Alice In Wonderland is so wildly entertaining that the loss of some of the literary substance does not detract from it as a terrific tale of adventure and discovery, certain to be enjoyed by people of all ages. I have heard plenty of rumors that Lewis Carroll was on any of a variety of drugs while he wrote the novels (and plenty of rumors that he wasn't on any drugs at all), but there are certainly some things in the books and in the movie that could have only been conjured up by the most, um, eccentric of imaginations. We may never know for sure, but at least we have some wonderful entertainment.

Read the books to your kids.