Alice in Wonderland (1931) Complete
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- Please do not sell DVDs of this video. It was uploaded so everyone can enjoy it for free.
I know the hiss in this video's audio may be too uncomfortable for some. I've left the older video up so you can still see the film; that one is just not complete though.
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Information About the Film
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The first Wonderland in sound was filmed in New Jersey! Directed by Bud Pollard and starring Ruth Gilbert as Alice. In the 30's, there was an "Alicemania" because of the centenary of Lewis Carroll's birth. Even the "real" Alice herself came to New York City for the celebrations in 1932 (she was 80 at the time). It's probable that this movie was made to capitalize on the Alice craze.
The result...to be truthful it's not a "good" movie or a fantastic Alice adaptation, however, it's historically interesting and it does have its own peculiar charm. The screenplay is not based off the book itself, but of a popular stage adaptation: Mrs. Burton Harrison's 1898 script "Alice in Wonderland: a Play for Children in Three Acts." It's relatively faithful, but adds a few things; most bizarrely, a love affair between the Duchess and the White Rabbit.
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About the Video
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This video was possible because David Schaefer put his rare collection on DVD through the Lewis Carroll Society of North America. However, /even his/ version was missing shots. My good friend, Curiouser and Curiouser put it together to make the complete film, for the first time.
However, you will notice there is a noticeable hiss. We have tried to edit it out, or even just reduce it, but we weren't happy with the quality loss. We have no experience in audio editing. Unfortunately, because of the age of film, prints are not identical and we can't just replace the audio with another. If anyone who knows how to use audio editing software could help, we'd appreciate it.
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This version is so odd and creepy. They unknowingly made Alice look modern while the costumes look like they came from a David Lynch movie.
Alice in Eraserheadland
He made his costumes like this film, you mean. You can't make something look like something that doesn't yet exist. The thing created after looks like the previous.
Alice looks like she's 34. 😁
@@WeRNthisToGetHer 🤓
The story itself is odd and creepy.
Adding to what someone else said, the actress playing Alice looks shockingly modern. When I first saw her I thought she looked like a model straight out of tumblr or instagram. It's not really until she opens her mouth and talks that I realize she is, in fact, an actress from the 1930's (she has that style of speech that actresses seemed to have back then). It's just so wild I had to comment.
bullshit. why would this be crossed with modern. stoop smoking crack
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I feel the same way this is super weird I thought it was a fan movie but I guess it’s not
This Alice looks like she's straight out of the mid-60s. Never seen this before but I like it.
This movie is a fever dream even by Alice standards.
She has a modern look to her. Like a Goth girl wearing a platinum blonde wig or something.
Not to mention a modern attitude. I can't imagine many girls in the early 30's were so arrogant and snarky.
@@Fireglo Attitudes like that weren't uncommon after the 1920s, and apparently even earlier as the book(wherein lies most the dialogue and emotional responses/cues from/for the characters) was written in the 1800s.
People could be quirky, sarcastic or have senses of humor etc back in the 1930s... I suspect there have been such people since the dawn of history, even caveman had things that made each other laugh and individual quirks
Such a bad actress. Just because movies were new in this time doesn't mean they had to make crap like this.
@@mickeymouse2ablenah you're not an actor
@@mickeymouse2able Hmm...unfortunately, armchair critics with an arrogant sense of entitlement like you cannot resist putting the boot in at any opportunity that comes their way.
Something quite interesting about the actress (ruth Gilbert) is that when you google here name you find photographs of her in the 30s and 40s as well as photographs of someone who looks just like her but nowadays, as if she was still alive and in her 30s
I read something that called this the very best film version of Alice in Wonderland. I can't quite agree, but it is a marvelous and hilarious version. It is dreamlike. It is very humorous. And it even, at points, have bits of the nightmarish elements of the story. So many thanks to Phantomwise for uploading it. Postscript: for me the film versions of Alice in Wonderland that I do consider better than this are Jan Svankmajer's Alice (1988) and the controversial 1966 BBC version of Alice in Wonderland with a soundtrack by Ravi Shankar (the controversy was that some people interpreted it as a pro-drug version of the story). I do also very much like the 1915 version, but this one definitely tops that in humor, costumes and dreamlike feeling. So again, thank you for uploading this.
Sorry for waiting so long to respond, but maybe they meant 1933 was the best version? Not that I agree with that either, but would make more sense.
@@Phantomwise2 I agree with that! The one from 1933 is my favorite. It's a technically a little messy, but it's awesome! Crazy only two years separate this one and that one.
The BBC version is excellent and very surreal. It was shown recently by the BBC
Agree!
Compared to the 1915 and 1910 silent versions of the story, this one is scary creepy.
It seems to follow the book closely...
I had no idea this existed! How interesting! So glad you shared it! -Amanda
11:09 it's interesting in this film that the Cheshire cat is played by an actor instead of a puppet looking cat seen in the 1915 version/adaptation of this film.
I'd argue it's actually aged better than the 1915 version, but not nearly as well as the 1903 version where he's just a normal cat.
@@nwriter777 1903 cat was so Avant guard. Deserves posthumous oscar for their work in that bush.
@@CriticoolHitFrom some unknown reason, youtube started to recommended me various versions of Alice in Wonderland, even despite the fact, that I never seen any version during whole life. And I wasn't even interested. I've just seen that cat today. Lol.
@@warrax111 Same. I ended up watching every single iteration of Alice and wonderland available. I still cannot decide if the 1903 or 1915 one is my favorite. The 1915 one is really, really good.
@haziqhakim5995 after I've seen 1915 version, I think I have enough.
Everyone is saying how modern she looks when all modern people take from the past.
the actress was wonderful in her enthusiasm and her expression.
🤔From the 1st time she opened her mouth I could tell she had an Obnoxious New York Accent. I guess every actor was from there, too. 😂
Just love this whacky ultra low budget but fun version THX what ALICE would look like if Ed Wood had directed it LOL
Alice is supposed to be a little girl. But every time that I see Alice, for some reason she's always 10 going on 35. It's funny.
Ruth Gilbert was 19, but dressed as a younger girl.
3:02 doesn't she sound a bit like #bettyboop the actress that's playing alice that is?
There were a lot of actresses and voice talent that had that same high pitched vibe in the 20s/30s.
Hey Phantomwise i just realized that in this version of Alice in Wonderland, she does not change size, from the Drink Me and Eat Me Cookie.
The whole film looks like they had to get every shot in one take; so many technical errors!
Also, this can't hold a candle to the all-star 1934 version from Paramount.
I am so glad someone saved this.
I like this version. It has its own odd charm!
10/2023: Wonderful Movie. I have always been an Alice In Wonderland fan since I was a child. I'm 71 now. This is a "new one on me". Most enjoyable.
Thank You Very Much
My favorite story ever, and if you'd liked this one, check out Lou Bunin's version, it is the best one I've ever seen! So much like the actual book more than most, very enchanting indeed!
I love this version! So happy someone posted this. Thank you!
The image is pretty good but the sound is awful and i cannot hear all the conversations between Alice and the cook and the cat and the other protagonists..Sad.. i know it is a very old movie but the sound in the background is annoying.
And in 1933 Paramount produced its own all-star version: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_%281933_film%29
OK, this would induce nightmares in children.
33:06 looks like an insert from the #1915aliceinwonderland film.
Fun how movie makers used their own back yard gardens in more than one film of those days.
This, along with the pantomime play, the 60s BBC version and Jan Svankmajer's film, has got to be one of the weirdest versions of the story to date!
Have you seen the French 1970 one on Curiouser and Curiouser's channel? That's a weird one.
Phantomwise I'll check it out.
Phantomwise alright so I watched it. It was pretty trippy.
This film has too much lore!
Господа, это же кино. Не стоит быть невеждами❤
42:12 Can someone please tell me what happened to the Hatter? Did he die? And why was Alice crying, she said he was rude.
They decided to punish him for murdering Time at the Queen's concert by making him dance and try to keep Time. This is a bit bizarrely added in Mrs. Burton Harrison's script "Alice in Wonderland: a Play for Children in Three Acts," which the film is based on. The script says Hatter "finally falls exhausted, and is picked up, carried to seat, and extinguisher clapped on his head" (the extinguisher being the 'suppressing' bag). So, I think he is supposed to have fainted, but the film's not very clear on it.
As for Alice, I have no idea why she's crying and why they keep interjecting it into the scene. The script makes no mention of her crying.
This Alice is so adorable. I want to hug her so bad. But then I remember she died 2 months before I was born. :/
when were u born?
@@aries35 August 1993 apparently
@@princesskayla1400 oh! thank u
@@aries35 your welcome
RIP Sweet Alice
A very odd, low-budget flick, but Ruth Gilbert--who plays Alice--is pretty decent in the lead role. Very odd costumes, sort of creepy, really, but nothing like the 1985 Dreamchild, where the March Hare, Mad Hatter, and the other Wonderland characters were really kind of gross.(It was an excellent film, though). I've never seen a live version I liked, preferring the animated versions. This film is a real curiosity, though. Worth a watch--once.
At least it is close to the text of the book. I hate it when directors turn everything upside down.
Like it? I love it! Thank you so much, it will be cherished .
Far more entertaining than Tim Burton's attempt. Embraces the logic-breaking narrative and doesn't overreach. Ruth Gilbert looks beautiful and timeless and crazed. Svankmajer still the definitive version for me.
Alice looks a lot like one of my friends! Sure doesn’t sound like her, though. 😮😮😮😮😂😂😂
This story will be an Easter tradition for me from now on.
The chesire cat scene lol
10:27 Not sure why Alice is so scared - that old lady walks so darn slow with that axe, you could easily escape her at a brisk walking pace.
It looked like an adult Alice, was super imposed but shortened somehow, c.1931
I will see this one too. Yesterday I saw the 1915's version.
Skips the Pool of Tears in this version.
This is a good movie. Someone should make a modern version. Is there a novelisation of this?
This movie sucks ass.. but alice is hot :D
34:55 that horn the white rabbit is blowing in looks like it came from the fire dept where this film took place which i think is new jersey.
If you were fortunate enough to have been introduced to Alice through the book and its wonderful illustrations by John Tenniel, any attempt at filming the tale will fall short and disappoint.
АЛИСА В СТРАНЕ ЧУДЕС(1931).
Imagine Alice in Neverland! 😂
Does anyone know what happened to the actress? I heard she was in a 1992 film but that's all i know.
Her name is Ruth Gilbert, and she died in 1993. She was in a movie in 1992 called me, myself, and i.
#mIproject she reminds to me Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy)
Well, Blondies certainly a bit of a looker, shocking SYRUP mind! 😂
10:27 This is a recreation scene of Ruth Gilbert screaming like a banshee taken from New Alice Pictures logo during the 1930s.
Hey Phantomwise i have another question concerning this film and/or the play its based on. Feel free to answer in your own good time. 1, what is up with Alice's head at 52:24? And 2, why inspired them to do a version with no hall of doors or anything having to do with Alice's size changing. This version and the one from 1915 are the only ones where they don't really add the size change part. For this film in particular was it for time or do you think they thought it would add to the nonsensical nature of Wonderland if Alice just "literally" dropped in? Again feel free to reply i would love hearing from you.
Hello Adam! I love discussing these films so please feel free to ask any questions you may have. :)
1.) As far as I know, there are no existing notes from the production crew, so I cannot say for sure. However, I've always assumed that it's Alice's dream turning into a nightmare, and she's imagining that her head has been cut off. This doesn't happen in the book or Harrison script so it is original to the film itself. Though it was interesting to note that Disney was planning a similar sequence in which Alice would have woken up right before her head was to chopped off in a guillotine in their 1939 screenplay version.
2.) I can't say for certain, but I think they just didn't have the resources to do so. Those kinds of effects required more time, effort, money, and most importantly, more expertise with filming, which they lacked as an amateur studio. Effects like the rabbit-hole and size changes usually require more elaborate sets, and I have the suspicion that the sets in the film are not uniquely made for Alice and are probably reusable ones they had (I need to do a little more research on that). The only effects they do have are achieved by manipulating the film. They do a half-hearted attempt at size changes at 5:45, by just distorting the film.
Plus, the audience would have been used to seeing Alice without a rabbit-hole. Now we're used to school or community theater productions, that usually put in time and effort to cleverly portray sequences like the rabbit-hole. However, at that time very amateur plays put on by neighborhood kids or families were more common. These had no budget, usually had little preparation time, and were simply for the fun. That was why Mrs. Burton Harrison's Alice script, which skipped the rabbit-hole, became so popular. Usually films try to do things that _cannot_ be done onstage, but 1931's crew thought that an all-sound Alice was novelty enough. In a way, it was done for fun, like those simpler plays.
And it is funny that you mentioned 1915! Actually, the original 2-hour version did have size changes, at least in the Rabbit's House! Though that production was also amateur, they had a larger budget and were much more ambitious. From the rabbit-hole footage we were lucky to find, we can assume that these effects were lacking, even for the time. Later releases cut these effects out completely so it wouldn't look as outdated in the 1920's. Hopefully, other releases will eventually surface with these missing effects.
+Phantomwise Oh ok i see. Thank you so much for replying. I like discussing these type of things with you. I've been obsessed with Alice since i was 6. So my heart....*checks to see if the Queen is listening* flies having to find another fun person to discuss with. I really appreciate your answering me. And if i made add, on the size part, I've seen other plays like Tim Kelly who have Alice drop in Wonderland like this film, i personally like that just for the purpose of adding to the nonsense. Oh and if you ever on TH-cam look up Alice in Wonderland Devised part 1 and 2 Its dark but very enjoyable. They change Off With Their Heads to Out With Their Hearts. Its fun. Thank you again for taking time to answer you are an interesting person. God bless
Alice is beautiful :,)
10:20- Duchess: Off with your head.
Alice: Oh you mean you're just cross-
Duchess picking up ax and slowly approaching to attempt to decapitate her: No.
How old is Alice in this incarnation? Looks at least 25. All very Lynchian.
Hey, is the Caterpillar one of the Lollipop kids?!
andrew vincent I actually looked it up and was surprised to learn Jimmy Rosen WAS in the Wizard of Oz according to this site www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=27480 but it doesn't say anything about being a lollipop boy. He died in 1940 so Oz would have been one of his last movies.
I love this. ❤
Can you do Alice Through the Looking Glass 1973 starring Carol Hollands?
This Alice is way to old for the part and isnt a very good actress. But all in all i do like the rest of the characters and the old blk and wht backgrounds and time era.
from certain angles, she's giving SJP in Hocus Pocus tease.
You don't see that many movies from this era filmed in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
Berlin is the capital of Rome. And music by Irving Berlin.
Well Alice is certainly a bit of a looker. Shocking SYRUP though 😂
Great to watch for Halloween but why does the main star look like a model from modern times?
She reminded me at times of a young Cheryl "Rainbeaux" Smith who died so tragically young.
The Duchess seems to be reading her lines from an off-camera cue card!
She was. 😐
@@JackReynolds-w7g actually?
Alice in Wonderland (1933)
That version is so better and fascinating. You ARE talking about the one in which Cary Grant plays the mock turtle? Very weird version. The black and white makes it look like the Tenniel drawings.
closer to Potter's way..she would have loved this material
Единичная
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С четою весёлых детей
шагаете Вы, как царица.
Воздушные цепи кудрей
ласкаются с веющим бризом.
Волшебна, но также проста.
Вы чище весенней росинки.
В малиново-влажных устах
на солнце блестят золотинки.
Откуда такая Вы здесь,
в провинции, между плебеев?
Но я, представитель повес,
как мальчик, пред Вами робею.
Я видел, знал дев и девиц,
девчонок и женщин великих,
как Ваше, не ведал я лиц,
на Ваш хоть похожего блика.
И дети - не бремя для Вас.
Вы с чадами - вовсе не ноша
для любящих профиль и фас,
и душу, и стан прехороший.
Вы - чудо! Вы - ода, рассказ!
Вы - жизнь за одно лишь мгновенье!
Я б выполнил каждый приказ
при малом словце, мановеньи!
Вы с запахом дивной травы.
Но вслед провожаю глазами...
Вы - книга, какую, увы,
листает другой вечерами...
"A Unique-Cosmos Picture???"
This is amazing!! Im so glad it still exists!! 💜
Abusive! She threw the items at the rabbit
What in the Hell did I just watch?
This has an evil feel
Harlequin does Alice 😂😂 who knew?
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AI to colorize this would be great
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One of the first all talking features made for the childrens market. It opened at the Warner's Theater on Times Square, the same theater The Jazz Singer premiered at 4 years earlier. The New York Times reviewer wrote " poor little Alice had to go through the ordeal of coming to shadow life in an old studio in Fort Lee NJ, instead of enjoying the manifold advantages of her rich cousins who hop from the printed page to the screen amid the comfort of a well equipped Hollywood studio".
26:24 before there was #burgerking lol.
Super low budget, sort of like a high school play, but charming ... LOVE the actress playing Alice .. the Duchess gives the best performance IMO
24:33 - Didn't know Bud Bundy casted even in movie from 1931.
Wow, creapy and trippy. The theme 🎶 by Irving Berlin
Very much replicates what a stage version might have looked like from the same period
Irving Berlin!!! Wow
This version is really creepy definitely something to watch on halloween I think this version is better then the famous paramount version
Bray Wyatt couldn't have done a better job with this film
Wow... this is so bad it makes my hair hurt and teeth itch.
So Bad. SOOOO GOOOD!
The white rabbit 🫣
This film stole the opening song from another film and it steals the lobster quadrille scene!
@haziqhakim5995they're from alice in wonderland 1915 version
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5:20 I will not sleep tonight...
Alice looks like an ancestor of Ami Winehouse
This was disturbing. YIKES!
14:48 must be the #marchhare on the left?
I read the thumbnail as A LICE IN WONDERLAND
Thank you. ❤
Did I see a young Peter Cook in this ?
Well, he was born in 1936 I think, 5 years after this movie was made.
good