Alice in Wonderland
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After stealing some tarts baked by the cook, Alice lolls beside a brook with her sister, who reads aloud while Alice dozes. In a dream, a white rabbit leads Alice to Wonderland, where she experiences many strange adventures. In the company of a large mouse, for instance, Alice attends an animal convention, and later, she encounters a caterpillar who sits atop a mushroom smoking a hookah. Following their odd conversation, Alice meets the Duchess and her baby (who turns into a piglet), the Cheshire Cat, and Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and then plays croquet with the King and Queen of Hearts. They introduce her to the Gryphon, who, along with the Mock Turtle and a number of walruses and lobsters, perform the Lobster Quadrille. At the trial of the Knave of Hearts, Alice challenges the court, and cards fly all about her. Then she awakens beside the stream, a white rabbit nearby.
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The film was also reviewed at six reels. One source lists Martin J. Faust as the director and another suggests that De Witt C. Wheeler produced or adapted the film. Credits on a re-issue print of the film, however, list W. W. Young as both adaptor and director. Moving Picture World October 17, 1914, p. 315 notes a film version of Alice in Wonderland which was due for release on November 15, 1914, made by the Union Photoplay Co., which was owned by noted New York Evening World cartoonist Charles R. Macauley, and appears to have gone out of business shortly thereafter. It is unlikely that this film and the Union Photoplay Co. film, which was six reels, are the same. This film was re-released in 1924 by the American Motion Picture Corp. Other films made from the same source include a 1910 film entitled Alice's Adventures in Wonderland made by Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; a 1933 Paramount production directed by Norman McLeod; a 1951 Walt Disney animated feature; and a 1972 British production entitled Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, directed by William Sterling.
