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Alice au pays des merveilles (1949) French

Please do not sell DVDs of this video. It was uploaded so everyone can enjoy it for free. -------------------------------------------- Information About the Film --------------------------------------------- In 1946, Lou Bunin was approached by M. Aisner, a French screenwriter, to work on an Alice with a live action girl in a stop-motion animated Wonderland, in both French and English. Bunin agreed and hired Art Babbit, Bernyce Polifka, and Gene Flury to work on the film. All the shooting was done in France while the actors came from England. In 1949, the film premiered in France. However, in the States, Walt Disney was working on his own animated Alice and had worked on and off the idea since 1933. Coincidentally, Bunin's film sounds similar to one of the original concepts Disney had of a live action Alice in a traditionally animated Wonderland (I do not know if Bunin was aware of this). Disney filed a lawsuit as he thought audiences would be confused and would see the 'wrong' Alice and his company had spent more money and time on their production. However, as Alice in Wonderland was a public domain story, the court threw it out, even stating that competition should be encouraged. Disney used his influence at Technicolor to deny the best color process to the Bunin production, forcing them to use Ansco. This is why most copies of the film have discolorations and quality deterioration. Then he used his influence to discourage movie theaters from showing Bunin's film so it had a limited release. Both movies premiered the same week. This is why some ads of the Disney film at the time say "There is only ONE Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland" and why 1949 is mostly unknown in the U.S. As for the condition of the film itself: all English versions of the film on DVD are awfully edited and are transferred from the VHS tape rather than film. In addition, the VHS tape might even be the version that was shown on television. There's NO way that it was the version shown in American theaters. The French DVD was transferred from film (hence the better quality) and gives the idea of what the film was intended to be. You will notice, if you are familiar with the English version, that there are major differences, especially in the live action scenes. The live action scenes were actually directed by two directors (Dallas Bower for the English and Marc Maurette for the French). In the Wonderland scenes, there are scenes in the English version not in the French and vice versa. My theory is that these once were a 'complete' film but both versions had different editing teams. --------------------------------------------- About the Video --------------------------------------------- This video was originally posted with the promise of being subtitled. Because of circumstances and other subtitle priorities, that has been put even further on the back-burner. However, a restored and extended version of the film is supposed to see release from Thunder Bean soon. Thanks to Curiouser and Curiouser for his help with the stubbon DVD that refused to cooperate. --------------------------------------------- Known Cast & Crew --------------------------------------------- Lou Bunin (producer, director of stop motion animation) Dallas Bower (director of English live action scenes) Marc Maurette (director of French live action scenes) Bernyce Polifka (production design) Art Babbit (animator) Gene Flury (layout designer) Carol Marsh as Alice Stephen Murray as Lewis Carroll/Charles Dodgson and Knave of Hearts Ernest Milton as Vice Chancellor and White Rabbit Pamela Brown as Queen Victoria and Queen of Hearts Felix Aylmer as Dean Liddell and Cheshire Cat David Reed as Prince Consort and King of Hearts Raymond Bussières as a tailor and Mad Hatter Joyce Grenfell as Duchess and Dormouse