Alice in Wonderland (1951)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Alice in Wonderland |
| Original title | Alice in Wonderland |
 | |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1951 |
| length | 75 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Clyde Geronimi , Wilfred Jackson , Hamilton Luske |
| script | Winston Hibler , Ted Sears , Bill Peet , Erdman Penner , Joe Rinaldi , Milt Banta , Bill Cotrell , Dick Kelsey , Joe Grant , Dick Huemer , Del Connell , Tom Oreb , John Walbridge , Aldous Huxley |
| production | Walt Disney |
| music |
Oliver Wallace Songs: Mack David , Jerry Livingston , Al Hoffmann , Gene de Paul , Sammy Fain , Bob Hilliard Orchestration: Joseph S. Dubin |
| cut | Lloyd Richardson |
Alice in Wonderland (original title: Alice in Wonderland ) is the thirteenth full-length animated film from the Walt Disney Studios and was released in 1951. The film, which had its world premiere on July 28, 1951, is based on Lewis Carroll's works Alice in Wonderland ( Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ) and Alice behind the mirrors ( Through the Looking-Glass ). It flopped at its premiere and is said to have been spurned by Walt Disney himself.
action
Alice is bored while her older sister reads from a history book to her. The girl prefers to play with her little kitten and imagine what it would be like to live in a world with different rules. Finally Alice meets a white, talking rabbit with a large pocket watch who is in a great hurry (it says: “I'm way too late ...”). She follows him into his building and falls through a strange vertical tunnel, at the bottom of which is a room with a speaking door knob. He doesn't want to let Alice through the door. After some discussions about “too big” and “too small” (Alice changes her size with the help of various means, e.g. shrinks after drinking), she ends up in a conference of animals on a beach. On the mainland she finally meets the twins Diedeldei and Diedeldum , who tell her "the story of the walrus and the carpenter". After the story, Alice continues to wander through Wonderland, still looking for the rabbit. She meets the Cheshire Cat and a caterpillar that smokes a water pipe . On her further journey, the girl becomes a giant, meets singing flowers and takes part in the tea party of the March rabbit and the mad hatter . There she meets the white rabbit again. After she can't speak to him again, Alice decides to go home. She gets lost in a strange forest. After the curious forest creatures dissolve through their sadness of not finding their way back home, the Cheshire Cat leads Alice to the Queen of Hearts . She is very irascible and orders several beheadings within a very short time. Alice is also supposed to be beheaded after a round of croquet with flamingos as bats and is on trial. She flees and comes back to the door with the speaking doorknob. She doesn't get it open, but sees herself through the keyhole asleep under a tree. The film ends with her waking up there, awakened by her own sister.
Production history
Walt Disney was fascinated from an early age by the story of Alice, who finds himself in a strange wonderland. After making a number of short films with the Alice Comedies , Disney planned a full-length film based on the Lewis Carroll classic in the 30s and 40s.
However, it took three attempts before the decision was made to shoot the film as a pure cartoon. It was previously planned as a mixed film , similar to the Alice Comedies . In 1933 Mary Pickford was in discussion for the role of Alice, in 1945 it was officially announced that Ginger Rogers would be the star. A year later, the film was planned as a vehicle for its new, fledgling star Luana Patten from Uncle Remus' Wonderland .
In the same year it was finally decided to make a purely animated musical from the original, whereby the original illustrations by Sir John Tenniel should have a great influence on the style. But during preproduction it was realized that it would be impossible to translate these illustrations into moving images, and even if you could, it would not be what you would expect from Disney. So one began to interpret the figures a little more freely. The color and concept design was created by Mary Blair .
While the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was to serve exclusively as a template before the Second World War and the resulting production delay , Walt Disney decided to use characters from both Alice books after the war . Disney had between 30 and 40 songs written for the film, two-thirds of which were rejected. Most disappeared in the archives, others were reused with new texts, for example in Peter Pan . Since Disney was partly dissatisfied with the songs, he consulted Oliver Wallace and Frank Churchill . Since they could not write so-called "Novelty Songs" either, Tin Pan Alley , which worked on Cinderella , was finally involved in the work.
During the production, for the first time since the 1940s a feature film was made as a template, according to Ward Kimball, a competition broke out between the individual directors as to who had the craziest and biggest scene in the film.
synchronization
| role | English speaker | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Alice | Kathryn Beaumont | Renate Kanthack |
| Queen of Hearts | Verna Felton | Erna Haffner |
| White rabbit | Bill Thompson | Clemens Hasse |
| Grinning cat | Sterling Holloway | Ernst Constantine |
| Hatter | Ed Wynn | Wolfgang Kieling |
| March hare | Jerry Colonna | Erwin Biegel |
| Caterpillar | Richard Haydn | Alfred Balthoff |
| Tweedle Dee | J. Pat O'Malley | Werner Stock |
| Tweedle Dum | Hugo Schrader | |
| walrus | Victor Janson | |
| Carpenter | Erwin Biegel | |
| Dodo | Bill Thompson | Armin Münch |
| Doorknob | Joseph Kearns | Erich Fiedler |
| King of Hearts | Dink Trout | Erich Kestin |
| rose | Doris Lloyd | Anneliese Würtz |
| Alice's sister | Heather Angel | Eva Ingeborg Scholz |
| Dove | Queenie Leonhart | Alice Treff |
| Bill the lizard | Larry Gray | Wolfgang Spier |
| Flamingos | Pinto Colvig | |
reception
- “Commercially a failure, the turbulent, trick-technically virtuoso film was one of the underrated feature films of the Disney studio for many years. Without false piety, the original plan to animate the original illustrations of the book was abandoned and an original new creation was realized. Carroll's chaotic nonsense humor is matched by an intoxicating firework of colors. With Alice you immerse yourself in a labyrinth of the craziest stories, always new characters arise from the ingenuity of the animators. The highlights are the "crazy tea party" and the ballet of playing cards. "-" Lexicon of international film "(CD-ROM edition), Systhema, Munich 1997.
- "[...] a trick technically convincing children's story, brimming with ideas, also for adults." (Rating: 2½ stars = above average) - Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in: Lexicon "Films on TV". (Extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 28.
- “The fairy tale is skilful, imaginative and delightfully translated into a lively picture book. Although very pretty, not urgent in the soul. ”- 6000 films. Critical notes from the cinema years 1945 to 1958. Handbook V of the Catholic film criticism, 3rd edition, Verlag Haus Altenberg, Düsseldorf 1963, p. 16.
- At the Academy Awards in 1952 , Oliver Wallace was nominated in the Best Film Music category.
- In 2010, the literary source from Disney and the direction of Tim Burton was reissued as real films. The main roles included Mia Wasikowska as the title role Alice , Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter and Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen . With revenues of over a billion dollars, this film, unlike the cartoon version, was a complete success.
Publications
- movie theater
- Germany: December 17, 1952
- Austria: December 4th 1953
- Alice in Wonderland . Buena Vista Home Video GmbH. FSK: 6.
- Alice in Wonderland - Walt Disney Masterpieces, 1999.
- Alice in Wonderland . Special Collection. First edition. June 12, 2003.
- Alice in Wonderland . Special Collection. New edition. 2005.
- Alice in Wonderland . Special Collection. For the 60th anniversary. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. March 10, 2011.
- Disney Classics 12: Alice in Wonderland . Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. January 18, 2018.
- Alice in Wonderland . For the 60th anniversary. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. March 10, 2011.
- Disney Classics 12: Alice in Wonderland . Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. January 18, 2018.
Note: The DVD editions of 2003 and 2005 did not contain the German version of the title song in the opening credits.
literature
- Lewis Carroll : Alice in Wonderland . and Alice behind the mirrors . (OT: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass ). (Anniversary edition.) Translated from the English by Christian Enzensberger . With illustrations by John Tenniel . Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-458-34268-0 .
- Leonard Maltin : The Disney Films. 3. Edition. Hyperion, New York 1995, ISBN 0-7868-8137-2 .
- Elmar Biebl, Dirk Manthey, Jörg Altendorf: The films of Walt Disney. The magical world of animation. 2nd edition, 177 p. Milchstraße, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-89324-117-5 .
- Frank Thomas , Ollie Johnston : Disney Animation. The Illusion of Life. Abbeville Press, New York 1981, ISBN 0-89659-698-2 .
- Christopher Finch : Walt Disney. His life - his art. (Original title: The Art of Walt Disney. From Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdoms ). German by Renate Witting. (Limited exclusive edition.) Ehapa-Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-7704-0171-9 , (current English-language edition: The Art of Walt Disney. From Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdoms. Abrams, New York 2004, ISBN 0-8109 -4964-4 .)
Web links
- Alice in Wonderland in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alice in Wonderland . Special Collection.
- ↑ Alice in Wonderland (Special Collection for the 60th Anniversary ) DVD
- ↑ Alice in Wonderland . For the 60th anniversary. Blu-ray
- ↑ Alice in Wonderland (1951) (Disney Classics Collection # 12) Blu-ray on bluray-disc.de
