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

Jul 28, 2026 12:37 PM

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

8 hours ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 4

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4 hours ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

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.

5 hours ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

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2 hours ago (deleted Jul 28, 2026 7:00 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

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

1 hour ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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.

5 hours ago | Likes 5 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

5 hours ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Dude, Ed Wynn. What a fucking treasure!

3 hours ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

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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.

1 hour ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Easily my most watched Disney movie. Ratatouille is creeping up though.
(Save it, I know it's Pixar)

5 hours ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

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

8 hours ago | Likes 111 Dislikes 3

The original wordchewer!

1 hour ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

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

1 hour ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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

5 hours ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

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

3 hours ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

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

4 hours ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

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

8 hours ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

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

6 hours ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

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.

6 hours ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 1

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

3 hours ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

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

6 hours ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Kathryn Beaumont! Absolute legend.

8 hours ago | Likes 61 Dislikes 4

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

7 hours ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 0

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

7 hours ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

She did both

7 hours ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

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

6 hours ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

13. She was born in 1938

5 hours ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

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

4 hours ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

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.

2 hours ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

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.

36 minutes ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

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.

34 minutes ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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

4 hours ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

All the early Disney movies did.

4 hours ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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!

5 hours ago | Likes 35 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.

37 minutes ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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.

7 hours ago | Likes 165 Dislikes 3

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

3 hours ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 5

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

2 hours ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

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?

5 hours ago | Likes 45 Dislikes 0

I would have freaked out completely.

4 hours ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

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

2 hours ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

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.

19 minutes ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This is amazing.

3 hours ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

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

5 hours ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

That's him alright.

4 hours ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

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.

2 hours ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0