Alice In Wonderland test footage - Unbirthday Mad Tea Party - Disney 

Agreed.

Walt originally planned for it to be live action, but then decided it be animated

Actually way back in 1933 Walt wanted to make an Alice in Wonderland movie with Mary Pickford as a live action Alice going through an animated Wonderland, but it was scrapped last minute when Paramount released a big budget live action Alice in Wonderland with a big name cast that same year.

They should’ve just went with a live action

Me too is fantastic.

Even the Mad Hatter has standards.

Best part is, with earl grey tea, a squeeze of lemon does go fine.

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Question. When he threw the mustard dish, did it actually break, or was it an added sound effect.

@@Thomas_H._Smith I'm pretty sure the props were made of something like primitive plastics. Breaking real dishes is a hazard and even back then it was generally discouraged (those ceramics cost money after all)

Two dayths sthlow. That'th what it iths.

SMASH IT WITH A HAMMA!!

​@daelen.cclark it's brilliant, brilliant, BRILLIANT I TELL YOU!

I remember Cinderella having end credits too, and it preceded Alice in Wonderland.

I’m pretty sure it has the most deleted songs too!

@@everenrae9005 Mary Poppins might beat it for most deleted but definitely close.

Weird bc the films after didn’t have them until the modern disney films of today

@@JacobMKeeneAKADrPepperKing No. There weren't any end credits. It end with The End.

I feel like they used to be better at casting voices for animated films, these days it's like George Clooney or Antonio Banderas.

Yes, this is reference footage the animators used to create the animation.

@Ethan Corpuz Not that I'm aware of.

His eyes were INSANE!

He may have been directed not to move too much. The camera would slip out of focus and some mic's are VERY sensitive to some sounds like feet, rustling clothes, etc.

They did do a sketch for the warlus’ dance

Thanks!

That's why they film the reference footage.

Her name is Kathryn Baumont. She also happened to be the voice of Wendy in "Peter Pan." :-)

Broadway Classixs I know they drew alice after the actor but isn't reference just to examine the movement of the actors to redraw?

No, they sometimes use the live action footage to trace over for the animation directly - as happened with Kathryn.

^ An act known as rotoscoping.

It's part of a Walt Disney TV show that is included on the Alice DVD. I edited it and synched it to the cartoon myself.

Which dvd

X0209 The Masterpiece Edition

What about the carpenter inspiring Felix?

I saw the film too. Ed Wynn was really an excellent actor. I like his work.

That's where I read about that, too. I absolutely love that anecdote, because it simultaneously encapsulates Walt Disney as both a conscientious perfectionist and a total bastard. (Seriously, imagine your boss giving you a unreasonable order like that and then just walking out. 🤣) I really do wonder how they made that track usable --- it couldn't have been easy back then without digital tools to help clean up the audio.

And I am the first one ever to match it to the animation!

Most do but some don't need to do it as much especially if it is heavily stylized.

***** No, this was planned reference footage for animators, which Disney shot for almost all its features. The surprising thing was that the audio was used, which was almost never done.

The butter grossed me out in the animation

@@terencewilliammckenna6121 But why? It was the very best butter.

@@boink345 To hear animator Ward Kimball tell it, it ended up that way because usually the actors would perform their scenes along to a prerecorded dialogue track they had already done, but Ed Wynn was having trouble keeping up with his own lines, so he finally just asked them to turn off the track and he'd just roughly remember the script. The dialogue he ad-libbed during that filming turned out to be much funnier than what had been recorded originally, and when Walt Disney heard it he ordered that that track be used instead ---- which immediately created a problem for the sound engineers because that audio had a lot of background noise that they'd somehow have to clean up.

I was about to make the same comment lol

I knew it

+jose molinaro Thanks! It was fun to discover this.

They're just drawing for show - of course, none of that was used.