Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" was released 75 years ago today (Wayback in 1951)

Jul 28, 2026 12:13 PM

Pasquinelthe2nd

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Pff, who needs to waste all this time and effort, AI production is clearly superior. /s

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Fuck off with this malicious link and stolen comment. Here's the original they ripped off. /gallery/CGZfFEN/comment/2507605079 ... REPORT, DONT CLICK

3 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The reference actress is incredible, she overplays every motion so wonderful!

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that kid's poise is impressive

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In many ways this seems like a modern movie shot on a green screen where most of the scene will be added in later. There’s a sparse set, the actors are interacting with minimal props or nothing at all. Really it’s the same thing, except the entire scene gets redrawn later instead of composited!

3 days ago | Likes 42 Dislikes 1

It reminds me more of performance capture (a combination of motion capture, facial capture and voice acting, all in one), which is what this ultimately is, just done more manually instead of with the aid of sensors and computers.

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Proof that it's ok to trace sometimes.

2 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Lewis Carroll would have loved watching this process WAY too much.

3 days ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

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I wonder how much of a "live action" movie could you create by stitching together all these short vids. I'd love to see it.

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That would be interesting! I know the stop motion studio Laika will have an entire movie done like this (previsualization) for references.

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Kathryn Beaumont played Alice to perfection.

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Remember what the dormouse said..

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One of the most fucked-up Walt Disney I've seen. Scared my little brother and sisters on several moments (the flower scene for instance). So trippy.
Nostalgia hits me hard on this one, I might gonna watch it again I guess.

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1951 and the boys and girls at Disney were thoughtful and forward thinking enough to document that much behind the scenes making. Really nice

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The Irony is now they’re going backwards, taking the cartoon movie and doing it with real people.

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Dude, Ed Wynn. What a fucking treasure!

3 days ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Never realized how much the Mad Hatter sounds like Alan Tudyk's King Candy. Or I guess vice versa.

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Yeah, Tudyk was definitely doing an homage to Ed Wynn

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Had no idea they'd use a live actress to model the character. Interesting.

3 days ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

All the early Disney movies did.

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It's almost like they could have done a live action film at the same time.

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Reminded me of this gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAwR6w2TgxY

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Shout out to Ed Wynn as the Mad Hatter and Jerry Colonna as the March Hare

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The cast was amazing. I remember most of them from when I was a child. Some were on The Twilight Zone as were many other famous actors.

3 days ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Ed Wynn's episode is my all-time favorite of the Twilight Zone. It's also funny to recognize the Caterpillar in SOUND OF MUSIC and YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN

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Kathryn Beaumont played both Alice in Wonderland and Wendy in Peter Pan, 50 years later she voiced both characters in Kingdom Hearts. 72 years after her original performance as Alice she reprised the role in Alice's Wonderland Bakery. Outside of her acting career she was a school teacher for 30 years.

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I bet all the old dudes were trying to bang her.

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I don't know what grade she taught but can you imagine finding out you had Wendy reading Peter Pan to your class during story time?

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I would have freaked out completely.

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And cool that's she's still alive to this day

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I looked up her voice work in Kingdom Hearts. That’s incredibly impressive.

I love how she was still able to voice those characters at her age, which iirc was around 60 at the time. Didn’t she voice Alice when she was still a kid?

Not only that, she also voices Kairi’s grandmother.

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This is amazing.

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This is thanks to Disney's first right of refusal contracts with their voice actors, one of the actual cool things they do.

3 days ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

It is amazing the techniques for animation that were made so many years ago.

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That's so cool, didn't know they did it like that ! 😀

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I love that the rotoscoping aspect lived on until the 1980's for major productions. Fire and Ice (1983) as an example. I suppose you can also count the Cats film too, but it's not hand drawn like the classics and it lacks charm as a result.

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Kathryn Beaumont! Absolute legend.

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Still alive and well at 88. Crazy thing is she still sounds exactly the same, voice wise.

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Did she just do the voice or is that also her doing the reference action?

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She did both

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Wow, so she was only 10 or 11 when they were filming these scenes?

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13. She was born in 1938

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I never liked it as a kid. Maybe it was too psychedelic or scary for me.

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I hated the Cheshire cat as a kid. Super scary to tiny me. Came to love the movie as a teenager, though. The books are some of my favorites. Fascinating wordplay, really fun read.

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#10 is that Sterling Holloway? Voice of the Cheshire Cat, Pooh, and Kaa? Very iconic voice!

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I also remember him as the TV repairman from the Twilight Zone episode "What's in the Box"...just the right amount of strange for Rod Serling's work.

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That's him alright.

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The reference shoots were amazing and they didn't need to wear pajamas with dots.

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Yeah, but obviously that's because humans have to interpret and hand draw each frame with this method and a computer does it for them with the dots, making it a lot faster and easier. Just apply a 3D model and voila.

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That's actually not how this works in real-life. Yes, you get the movement into the computer, but it then needs to be painstakingly adjusted and modified to fit the digital character and scene, to the point that the end result is often completely different. In most movies, motion and facial capture are more of a reference for the animators than anything else. If you don't do this sort of work, you end up with lots of clipping, sliding and awkward motions, like in many videogame cutscenes.

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I know. Humans are much better at mapping bodies and non-geometric shapes than computers. They don't need to have that extra layer of contrast to see the edges.

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