"Alice's Wonderland" (1923)- Walt Disney's Laugh-O-Grams/ Walt Disney's Alice Comedies 

It's so hard to believe this short and the Disney Studios as a whole are both released and founded 100 years ago!

Released October 16th, 1923. Writing this comment on October 16th, 2023. This and Walt Disney Animation Studios turn a century year old today. Absolutely incredible. Centuries from now Walt's legacy may still be thriving. Imagine that!

Here's to 100 years of Disney, and hopefully many more to come

I can't imagine the amount of time it took on this to get the timing and synchronization right. This looks really impressive for 1923.

Pretty impressive for 1923

Alice is so cute!! R.I.P. Virginia Davis 1918.12.31 - 2009.08.15

Walt Disney was such a genius since the beginning. Shocking to think that this was created more than a century ago. The man at the beginning is Walt himself, at 22 y.o.

I have seen Walt Before Mickey too many times to count and this is pretty impressive for the year of 1923. He was different from everyone else and produced cartoons that nobody had ever seen before. He was ahead of his time and he was very creative and his imagination was out of this world. When it comes to hard work and creativity he's my inspiration. I'm a huge Walt Disney fan!

Had to see this after watching Walt Before Mickey on netflix

Fun Fact: This inspired quite a NUMBER of things in "Over The Garden Wall" A WONDERFUL/AMAZING Story/Tale, & Animation {with GREAT literary merit even} put out by Cartoon Network! Especially Episode 8* "Babes in The Woods"

Happy 100th Anniversary, Walt Disney! 🥳🎂🍾🥂🏰🎠🎡🎢🌈🎈✨🎉🎊🎁🎇🎆

What a genius Disney was, always ahead his time!!

If someone told this clean-shaven cartoonist that one day, he'd lay the foundations of one of the most powerful entertainment empires in the world...

I'm actually here because I've been wanting to do a Warner Bros. and Disney animated shorts-a-thon for a long time and finally got around to starting it. Working my way through the 20s. This is the first thing that's impressive so far lol.

There's an episode of Over the Garden Wall that's an almost shot-for-shot remake of the second half of this short. I wonder how many people got the reference.

That little girl, Virginia Davis, was so cute! I enjoyed watching this.

Walt Disney’s 100 years of Legacy!

Young Walt makes me so happy

Geez Walt was pretty damn good looking when he was young. I always have that image of him as a kindly older grandfatherish sort of man from all the 1960s footage from the parks and the show, but he was quite attractive in 23, I’ll tell ya what 😂🤭

so weird not seeing Walt without his Mustache

Notice at the beginning Walt is drawing something that looks like Snoopy's dog house! And then Alice follows the lead of a little grey rabbit with a white belly and white gloves that looks like a baby Bugs. Not to mention the little mouse poking the cat. EVERYTHING began with this cartoon!

And here we are today!

Walt looked handsome

That girl is so lucky if I was her I would be so happy and excited

95 Years since...

For 1923, this is one if the most incredible things on life I can imagine people seeing this with the family 😁😄🙌 I loved Alice's Dance, great And I wanna see the funnies with her 😺

Happy 97th birthday Alice's Wonderland, and Disney as a whole.

I cant imagine how much work this was

Is this Walt before he had his iconic mustache? O_O

Wow Disney knew What they were doing

16:00 Hugh Harman and Rudolph Ising were 2 of the founders of Warner Bros animation. After Disney, they worked in the early days with Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones and Tex Avery before leaving WB and forming their own production company.

I'm getting so many Over the Garden Wall vibes rn

2:23 I love this cat

Happy 100th anniversary Disney 🎉

This video: Ten years later This company: A hundred years later Happy 100th, Disney.

"Funnies"

7:57 the hype before the hype was invented

11:30 "I knew I shoulda taken that left toin at Albuquerque."

I actually came because of the movie

Happy 100th Anniversary!

Now the entire Alice Comedies shorts are in the public domain.

Even in the 20s, Walt Disney was the best of the best! 👍👍

Walt looks so young without his moustache.

This Walter Elias fellow isn't going to amount to anything with these whimsical funnies. What does he think he's gonna do, create the biggest entertainment company of our times?

0:54 such a beautiful and sweet girl.

Not gonna lie, but the animation cycles look like the ones from Disney mock up later in the 90s and 2000s. But it was good for 1923, I’ll planned my first animated short in 2023, exactly 100 years after this one.

I only looked this up because I watched the movie Walt before Disney

100 years later

I can't imagine how people in the past could make cartoons, even the results were that great, even though the world at that time was at war to greedily fight over their desires.

Animators were Hugh Harman Rudolf"Rudy"Ising Ub Iwerks, and Carman Maxwell.

It's so weird Disney never acknowledges this, outside of still using Pete

The first Disney cartoon

Honestly, everybody always talking about how Oswald the lucky rabbit was Walt Disney’s first creation but NO. This is where it’s at. Edit: also, all the people in this are long dead.

I love this...Walt Disney in a movie.

9:17 Classic Disney gag right there, along with other gags like falling off a cliff without the laws of psychics

I need to see this after watching Walt before Mickey

Wanted to see this after reading the Walt Disney biography. Of course RU-vid didn't let me down.

What the hell happened? Back in the day we had this staggeringly beautiful art style and humor! Adults, teenagers, kids and elders alike would gather up outside of theaters to buy tickets to watch this art! And now that we have better technology to do this, we somehow screw up. I'm guessing it's that mentality of "Cartoons are for kids" and "If it's colorful and moves, kids will LOVE it". We HAVE to do something! At least we have the modern mickey mouse shorts. I love those. THAT is what animation should've become. Better art, better, sound, better quality, upgrades to classics! Nowadays some cartoons aren't that good. Don't get me wrong, there are certain cartoons that I LOVE, like regular show, Steven universe, Star vs the F.O.E. ect. I just wish they kept making these old-styled cartoons...

100 years later, still impressive.

If it wasn't for Margaret Winkler who gave Walt a chance, this probably would had been the end of Walt's animation career. Since Laugh O Gram Disney's company back then went bankrupt.

ah. A sign of things to come for Disney

This cartoon makes me ☺

I love this !! I wish I could have met Mr. Disney

Considering The wizard of oz is 16 years later. Judy Garland was not even born yet. This is pretty astonishing.

I just rewatched Over The Garden Wall a few days ago (one of my favorite cartoons), and I instantly recognized the reception committee animation at 4:51 which was referenced in episode 8 of the show. Awesome to see this was some of Pat McHale's inspiration

I had the pleasure of meeting Virginia at a show out in Los Angeles some years ago. She was in her 80's and She signed a picture for me as She talked about working with a young Walt Disney.

was doing research on animation and spent forever trying to find this lol

Our curious Alice and rambious animals creating artists are so much fun to finally watch.🎯👧🏼🐭🐈‍⬛🐻🦁🏠✏🎥🌅 Stay safe everyone!

100 years ago today!

Amazing to see how animation has evolved from this all the way to South Park in almost 100 years. ;-)

It's even more enjoyable when you remember that the television wasn't invented yet so seeing cartoons in your house like alice was a thing of fiction

Happy birthday to the house of the mouse, that all began with a rabbit.

I’m here for the 100th anniversary, also I think this is the first thing Disney ever made

Pretty Awesome

Genius it is, but it should be noted Max Fleischer invented the Rotoscope and began putting cartoon characters into a real world scenes with his "out of the inkwell" series, some years before this. Walt just turned it around so the real person was put into a cartoon world.

I’d rather watch these then the stuff we got today tbh

Kinda sad that everyone in this film is dead now.

Oh my on 1923 walt still 22 yrs old

i just finished watching. walt before mickey. goodsht

great walt disney

That was actually Walt Disney’s idea to make that silent film until he did the the animated version of Walt Disney’s alice in wonderland

Is the man here Walt?

Disney should bring back Oswald and Julius

Why apologize for the subtitles? That was the industry standard back then.

This is literally the OG before the OG! How is it not on Disney+?

Is this available on Disney + cause it would be a shame if it wasn’t I mean this right here is what started it all

"Virginia Davis"

2:21 PROTO-PROTO-PROTOTYPE OF MICKEY MOUSE

Virginia Davis (Alice) has a Wiki page. She lived until 2009!

top 1 earliest disney movies

Good Video. And Its Good Classic Cartoon

better than the live action one we have now

I have the strangest feeling that I saw this on an Alice in Wonderland DVD about a half hour long old something presented by Coca Cola

Was she really 5 years old at the time? She looks like she was 10.

Wait, Ub Iwerk’s name is spelled “Ubb Iwwerks?”

I am here after 100 years

*Looks like CGI when the animation moved on the paper, there’s no way they had this editing skills back then*

Is the audio from the official soundtrack? This was the era of silent films, which is kind of fascinating~

Cant believe i watched the whole thing!