He assigned British author Aldous Huxley to re-write the script. Also, he found that the overall tone of Perkins’ script was too grotesque and dark. Because of the amount of work the movie needed and because of World War II, the project was again put on hold.ĭisney seriously started producing of the movie until June 1947. A story-reel was complete in 1939, but Disney felt that Hall’s drawings resembled Tenniel’s drawings too closely, which made them too difficult to animate. Hall to develop the story and concept art for an all-animated film. He registered the title with the Motion Picture Association of America in 1938 and hired storyboard artist Al Perkins and art director David S. Still, Disney was not entirely put off and picked up the movie later. Disney then shelved the project, because of Paramount’s 1933 live-action adaptation. He considered a live-action/animation version of the story, starring Mary Pickford as Alice, and in 1933 some color screen tests were made of her. Walt Disney purchased the rights to the Tenniel illustrations in 1931. Since that time he had decided that he was going to make a film based on Lewis Carroll’s story. They were about a real girl named Alice, who walked around in a drawn world. In 1920 Walt Disney had produced ‘the Alice Comedies’ his shorts which had given him his first success. Well I won’t do that.” How the movie started They patronise, they treat children as inferiors. They don’t remember what it’s like to be 12 years old. That’s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. Walt Disney loved the Alice books, probably because Lewis Carroll appreciated childhood, with which Disney totally agreed. It fascinated me the first time I read it as a schoolboy, and as soon as I possibly could, after I started making animated cartoons, I acquired the film rights to it.” “No story in English literature has intrigued me more than Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Walt Disney always has been fond of Lewis Carroll’s books. It was not the most successful Disney movie, but many people remember it still. In 1951, Walt Disney released a cartoon movie titled ‘Alice in Wonderland’.
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