Adding to what someone else said, the actress playing Alice looks shockingly modern. When I first saw her I thought she looked like a model straight out of tumblr or instagram. It's not really until she opens her mouth and talks that I realize she is, in fact, an actress from the 1930's (she has that style of speech that actresses seemed to have back then). It's just so wild I had to comment.

@markwitte303

8 ай бұрын

bullshit. why would this be crossed with modern. stoop smoking crack

@JamileMendes-ek9xp

8 ай бұрын

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This version is so odd and creepy. They unknowingly made Alice look modern while the costumes look like they came from a David Lynch movie.

@devinmorse9112

Жыл бұрын

Alice in Eraserheadland

@WeRNthisToGetHer

8 ай бұрын

He made his costumes like this film, you mean. You can't make something look like something that doesn't yet exist. The thing created after looks like the previous.

@stutzbearcat5624

2 ай бұрын

Alice looks like she's 34. 😁

@autumnnoir

Ай бұрын

@@WeRNthisToGetHer 🤓

Something quite interesting about the actress (ruth Gilbert) is that when you google here name you find photographs of her in the 30s and 40s as well as photographs of someone who looks just like her but nowadays, as if she was still alive and in her 30s

I read something that called this the very best film version of Alice in Wonderland. I can't quite agree, but it is a marvelous and hilarious version. It is dreamlike. It is very humorous. And it even, at points, have bits of the nightmarish elements of the story. So many thanks to Phantomwise for uploading it. Postscript: for me the film versions of Alice in Wonderland that I do consider better than this are Jan Svankmajer's Alice (1988) and the controversial 1966 BBC version of Alice in Wonderland with a soundtrack by Ravi Shankar (the controversy was that some people interpreted it as a pro-drug version of the story). I do also very much like the 1915 version, but this one definitely tops that in humor, costumes and dreamlike feeling. So again, thank you for uploading this.

@Phantomwise2

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry for waiting so long to respond, but maybe they meant 1933 was the best version? Not that I agree with that either, but would make more sense.

@gideon3401

Жыл бұрын

@@Phantomwise2 I agree with that! The one from 1933 is my favorite. It's a technically a little messy, but it's awesome! Crazy only two years separate this one and that one.

@Dragondave1000

2 ай бұрын

The BBC version is excellent and very surreal. It was shown recently by the BBC

@eleshasmith6064

24 күн бұрын

Agree!

This movie is a fever dream even by Alice standards.

This Alice looks like she's straight out of the mid-60s. Never seen this before but I like it.

I am so glad someone saved this.

10/2023: Wonderful Movie. I have always been an Alice In Wonderland fan since I was a child. I'm 71 now. This is a "new one on me". Most enjoyable. Thank You Very Much

I had no idea this existed! How interesting! So glad you shared it! -Amanda

She has a modern look to her. Like a Goth girl wearing a platinum blonde wig or something.

@Fireglo

5 жыл бұрын

Not to mention a modern attitude. I can't imagine many girls in the early 30's were so arrogant and snarky.

@irplane

4 жыл бұрын

@@Fireglo Attitudes like that weren't uncommon after the 1920s, and apparently even earlier as the book(wherein lies most the dialogue and emotional responses/cues from/for the characters) was written in the 1800s. People could be quirky, sarcastic or have senses of humor etc back in the 1930s... I suspect there have been such people since the dawn of history, even caveman had things that made each other laugh and individual quirks

@mickeymouse2able

4 жыл бұрын

Such a bad actress. Just because movies were new in this time doesn't mean they had to make crap like this.

@jesseowenvillamor6348

9 ай бұрын

​@@mickeymouse2ablenah you're not an actor

@geoffberesford

Ай бұрын

@@mickeymouse2able Hmm...unfortunately, armchair critics with an arrogant sense of entitlement like you cannot resist putting the boot in at any opportunity that comes their way.

I love this version! So happy someone posted this. Thank you!

the actress was wonderful in her enthusiasm and her expression.

One of the first all talking features made for the childrens market. It opened at the Warner's Theater on Times Square, the same theater The Jazz Singer premiered at 4 years earlier. The New York Times reviewer wrote " poor little Alice had to go through the ordeal of coming to shadow life in an old studio in Fort Lee NJ, instead of enjoying the manifold advantages of her rich cousins who hop from the printed page to the screen amid the comfort of a well equipped Hollywood studio".

I like this version. It has its own odd charm!

Skips the Pool of Tears in this version.

11:09 it's interesting in this film that the Cheshire cat is played by an actor instead of a puppet looking cat seen in the 1915 version/adaptation of this film.

@r.jclark4641

2 жыл бұрын

I'd argue it's actually aged better than the 1915 version, but not nearly as well as the 1903 version where he's just a normal cat.

@CriticoolHit

4 ай бұрын

@@r.jclark4641 1903 cat was so Avant guard. Deserves posthumous oscar for their work in that bush.

@warrax111

2 ай бұрын

@@CriticoolHitFrom some unknown reason, youtube started to recommended me various versions of Alice in Wonderland, even despite the fact, that I never seen any version during whole life. And I wasn't even interested. I've just seen that cat today. Lol.

@CriticoolHit

2 ай бұрын

@@warrax111 Same. I ended up watching every single iteration of Alice and wonderland available. I still cannot decide if the 1903 or 1915 one is my favorite. The 1915 one is really, really good.

@haziqhakim5995

2 ай бұрын

​@@warrax111same But KZread doesn't give me recommendations I just randomly started to watch almost every Verison of Alice in Wonderland. Especially the 1949 Verison.

This, along with the pantomime play, the 60s BBC version and Jan Svankmajer's film, has got to be one of the weirdest versions of the story to date!

@Phantomwise2

4 жыл бұрын

Have you seen the French 1970 one on Curiouser and Curiouser's channel? That's a weird one.

@livclark8154

4 жыл бұрын

Phantomwise I'll check it out.

@livclark8154

4 жыл бұрын

Phantomwise alright so I watched it. It was pretty trippy.

This story will be an Easter tradition for me from now on.

Compared to the 1915 and 1910 silent versions of the story, this one is scary creepy.

@SOULRELIEF22

9 ай бұрын

It seems to follow the book closely...

Just love this whacky ultra low budget but fun version THX what ALICE would look like if Ed Wood had directed it LOL

Like it? I love it! Thank you so much, it will be cherished .

Fun how movie makers used their own back yard gardens in more than one film of those days.

Thank you. ❤

The whole film looks like they had to get every shot in one take; so many technical errors! Also, this can't hold a candle to the all-star 1934 version from Paramount.

If you were fortunate enough to have been introduced to Alice through the book and its wonderful illustrations by John Tenniel, any attempt at filming the tale will fall short and disappoint.

Far more entertaining than Tim Burton's attempt. Embraces the logic-breaking narrative and doesn't overreach. Ruth Gilbert looks beautiful and timeless and crazed. Svankmajer still the definitive version for me.

This is amazing!! Im so glad it still exists!! 💜

This Alice is so adorable. I want to hug her so bad. But then I remember she died 2 months before I was born. :/

@aries35

3 жыл бұрын

when were u born?

@princesskayla1400

3 жыл бұрын

@@aries35 August 1993 apparently

@aries35

3 жыл бұрын

@@princesskayla1400 oh! thank u

@fargokatie

3 жыл бұрын

@@aries35 your welcome

@timmotel5804

7 ай бұрын

RIP Sweet Alice

10:27 Not sure why Alice is so scared - that old lady walks so darn slow with that axe, you could easily escape her at a brisk walking pace.

33:06 looks like an insert from the #1915aliceinwonderland film.

Hey Phantomwise i just realized that in this version of Alice in Wonderland, she does not change size, from the Drink Me and Eat Me Cookie.

10:20- Duchess: Off with your head. Alice: Oh you mean you're just cross- Duchess picking up ax and slowly approaching to attempt to decapitate her: No.

Phantomwise!!! I love you!!! I love your passion for all the research and stuff you do and I miss reading your tumblr everyday. I couldn't stop myself from reading every single post, all good stuff. Saw your pic on there to and you look good! I'm in San Diego and I was wondering if when the coronavirus scare is over if we could go out for a drink! What you say girl?

@Phantomwise2

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Jake! I'm so very flattered, but I have a boyfriend. Thank you for the kind words on the blog, I appreciate them a lot!

The image is pretty good but the sound is awful and i cannot hear all the conversations between Alice and the cook and the cat and the other protagonists..Sad.. i know it is a very old movie but the sound in the background is annoying.

And in 1933 Paramount produced its own all-star version: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_%281933_film%29

At least it is close to the text of the book. I hate it when directors turn everything upside down.

Hey Phantomwise i have another question concerning this film and/or the play its based on. Feel free to answer in your own good time. 1, what is up with Alice's head at 52:24? And 2, why inspired them to do a version with no hall of doors or anything having to do with Alice's size changing. This version and the one from 1915 are the only ones where they don't really add the size change part. For this film in particular was it for time or do you think they thought it would add to the nonsensical nature of Wonderland if Alice just "literally" dropped in? Again feel free to reply i would love hearing from you.

@Phantomwise2

6 жыл бұрын

Hello Adam! I love discussing these films so please feel free to ask any questions you may have. :) 1.) As far as I know, there are no existing notes from the production crew, so I cannot say for sure. However, I've always assumed that it's Alice's dream turning into a nightmare, and she's imagining that her head has been cut off. This doesn't happen in the book or Harrison script so it is original to the film itself. Though it was interesting to note that Disney was planning a similar sequence in which Alice would have woken up right before her head was to chopped off in a guillotine in their 1939 screenplay version. 2.) I can't say for certain, but I think they just didn't have the resources to do so. Those kinds of effects required more time, effort, money, and most importantly, more expertise with filming, which they lacked as an amateur studio. Effects like the rabbit-hole and size changes usually require more elaborate sets, and I have the suspicion that the sets in the film are not uniquely made for Alice and are probably reusable ones they had (I need to do a little more research on that). The only effects they do have are achieved by manipulating the film. They do a half-hearted attempt at size changes at 5:45, by just distorting the film. Plus, the audience would have been used to seeing Alice without a rabbit-hole. Now we're used to school or community theater productions, that usually put in time and effort to cleverly portray sequences like the rabbit-hole. However, at that time very amateur plays put on by neighborhood kids or families were more common. These had no budget, usually had little preparation time, and were simply for the fun. That was why Mrs. Burton Harrison's Alice script, which skipped the rabbit-hole, became so popular. Usually films try to do things that _cannot_ be done onstage, but 1931's crew thought that an all-sound Alice was novelty enough. In a way, it was done for fun, like those simpler plays. And it is funny that you mentioned 1915! Actually, the original 2-hour version did have size changes, at least in the Rabbit's House! Though that production was also amateur, they had a larger budget and were much more ambitious. From the rabbit-hole footage we were lucky to find, we can assume that these effects were lacking, even for the time. Later releases cut these effects out completely so it wouldn't look as outdated in the 1920's. Hopefully, other releases will eventually surface with these missing effects.

@adamshirk3495

6 жыл бұрын

+Phantomwise Oh ok i see. Thank you so much for replying. I like discussing these type of things with you. I've been obsessed with Alice since i was 6. So my heart....*checks to see if the Queen is listening* flies having to find another fun person to discuss with. I really appreciate your answering me. And if i made add, on the size part, I've seen other plays like Tim Kelly who have Alice drop in Wonderland like this film, i personally like that just for the purpose of adding to the nonsense. Oh and if you ever on KZread look up Alice in Wonderland Devised part 1 and 2 Its dark but very enjoyable. They change Off With Their Heads to Out With Their Hearts. Its fun. Thank you again for taking time to answer you are an interesting person. God bless

@haziqhakim5995

4 ай бұрын

Is not only 1915 and This Verison is also the 1982 Verison

3:02 doesn't she sound a bit like #bettyboop the actress that's playing alice that is?

@ah7910

3 ай бұрын

There were a lot of actresses and voice talent that had that same high pitched vibe in the 20s/30s.

I will see this one too. Yesterday I saw the 1915's version.

*Thanks!*

from certain angles, she's giving SJP in Hocus Pocus tease.

42:12 Can someone please tell me what happened to the Hatter? Did he die? And why was Alice crying, she said he was rude.

@Phantomwise2

7 жыл бұрын

They decided to punish him for murdering Time at the Queen's concert by making him dance and try to keep Time. This is a bit bizarrely added in Mrs. Burton Harrison's script "Alice in Wonderland: a Play for Children in Three Acts," which the film is based on. The script says Hatter "finally falls exhausted, and is picked up, carried to seat, and extinguisher clapped on his head" (the extinguisher being the 'suppressing' bag). So, I think he is supposed to have fainted, but the film's not very clear on it. As for Alice, I have no idea why she's crying and why they keep interjecting it into the scene. The script makes no mention of her crying.

Единичная .. С четою весёлых детей шагаете Вы, как царица. Воздушные цепи кудрей ласкаются с веющим бризом. Волшебна, но также проста. Вы чище весенней росинки. В малиново-влажных устах на солнце блестят золотинки. Откуда такая Вы здесь, в провинции, между плебеев? Но я, представитель повес, как мальчик, пред Вами робею. Я видел, знал дев и девиц, девчонок и женщин великих, как Ваше, не ведал я лиц, на Ваш хоть похожего блика. И дети - не бремя для Вас. Вы с чадами - вовсе не ноша для любящих профиль и фас, и душу, и стан прехороший. Вы - чудо! Вы - ода, рассказ! Вы - жизнь за одно лишь мгновенье! Я б выполнил каждый приказ при малом словце, мановеньи! Вы с запахом дивной травы. Но вслед провожаю глазами... Вы - книга, какую, увы, листает другой вечерами...

This is a good movie. Someone should make a modern version. Is there a novelisation of this?

The Duchess seems to be reading her lines from an off-camera cue card!

@user-up8jx3mt6j

9 ай бұрын

She was. 😐

@freddie393

8 ай бұрын

@@user-up8jx3mt6j actually?

Alice is supposed to be a little girl. But every time that I see Alice, for some reason she's always 10 going on 35. It's funny.

@nicholasalexander4743

3 жыл бұрын

Ruth Gilbert was 19, but dressed as a younger girl.

A very odd, low-budget flick, but Ruth Gilbert--who plays Alice--is pretty decent in the lead role. Very odd costumes, sort of creepy, really, but nothing like the 1985 Dreamchild, where the March Hare, Mad Hatter, and the other Wonderland characters were really kind of gross.(It was an excellent film, though). I've never seen a live version I liked, preferring the animated versions. This film is a real curiosity, though. Worth a watch--once.

24:33 - Didn't know Bud Bundy casted even in movie from 1931.

She reminded me at times of a young Cheryl "Rainbeaux" Smith who died so tragically young.

Господа, это же кино. Не стоит быть невеждами❤

This version is really creepy definitely something to watch on halloween I think this version is better then the famous paramount version

34:55 that horn the white rabbit is blowing in looks like it came from the fire dept where this film took place which i think is new jersey.

The chesire cat scene lol

Does anyone know what happened to the actress? I heard she was in a 1992 film but that's all i know.

@hangst7569

3 жыл бұрын

Her name is Ruth Gilbert, and she died in 1993. She was in a movie in 1992 called me, myself, and i.

@ambrit91

5 ай бұрын

#mIproject she reminds to me Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy)

Very much replicates what a stage version might have looked like from the same period

Hey, is the Caterpillar one of the Lollipop kids?!

@Phantomwise2

7 жыл бұрын

andrew vincent I actually looked it up and was surprised to learn Jimmy Rosen WAS in the Wizard of Oz according to this site www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=27480 but it doesn't say anything about being a lollipop boy. He died in 1940 so Oz would have been one of his last movies.

Song intro Lyrics (1) You know the Tale of the girl who was sitting by the fire with her kitten with a story that was written long ago You know the ? Was about to ? When The Glass Above the Fire seem To suddenly ? like a ?! You know When the Way was Clear Then It disappeared Though The Looking Glass You know That her name was Alice So come along If you Care We'll Take You there You must Prepare You could be a kitty Like you were When you read about The Girl who was sitting by the fire with her kitten with a story that was written long ago.

@haziqhakim5995

4 ай бұрын

Song intro Lyrics (2) Come along with Alice in the Wonderland ? A lovely Alice Where there are also ? Meet The funny People Slowly Hand and Hand Come along and have Though The Looking Glass Though The Wonderland

@Phantomwise2

4 ай бұрын

Here's the lyrics from oldielyrics.com [1st verse:] You know the tale of the girl who was sittin' By the fire, with her kitten It's a story that was written long ago You know that she was about to retire When the glass above the fire Seemed to suddenly expire like the snow You know when the way was cleared That she disappeared Thro' the looking glass You know that her name was Alice So come along if you care We'll take you there You must prepare To be a kiddie like you were when you read Of the girl who was sittin' by the fire with her kitten In the story that was written long ago [Refrain:] Come along with Alice Into wonderland To the lovely palace Where they're all so grand See the funny people Strolling hand in hand Come along and pass through the looking glass Into wonderland

Super low budget, sort of like a high school play, but charming ... LOVE the actress playing Alice .. the Duchess gives the best performance IMO

This film has too much lore!

OK, this would induce nightmares in children.

"A Unique-Cosmos Picture???"

You don't see that many movies from this era filmed in Fort Lee, New Jersey.

closer to Potter's way..she would have loved this material

51:55 what is this effect called and why do i keep seeing it in old movies and also why does Alice always make this face 😙

It looked like an adult Alice, was super imposed but shortened somehow, c.1931

Everyone is saying how modern she looks when all modern people take from the past.

Wow, creapy and trippy. The theme 🎶 by Irving Berlin

I love this. ❤

Alice looks a lot like one of my friends! Sure doesn’t sound like her, though. 😮😮😮😮😂😂😂

This was disturbing. YIKES!

I like the song at the intro even tho is stolen & the intro is kinda creepy 1:38 Did she fall in the Rabbit Hole? That explains Why she talks about it & The mushrooms behind her 3:02 She sounds like Betty boop 4:04 That Rabbit looks like he came from a Nightmare & this Verison Skips The Whole Halls of Doors Scene But kept the fan Scene at 4:21 that randomly made her bigger & Smaller later at 5:50 By stretching the scene & Then Skips right into the Duchess Lullaby 7:44 Why is Everyone Small Including Alice 10:09 Ma'am what did she & The Pig do to you? & she should have ran earlier right after she pulled the axe 11:10 There's a Duchess Scene but the Cheshire cat isn't in it was because he didn't even look like an actual cat 14:43 Is that the Queen Of hearts Castle in the Background? 15:20 Why is does he look like that? & The Hatter kinda looks like an zombie & has Horrible Singing at 18:46

@haziqhakim5995

3 ай бұрын

21:16 Why are the Mouse Legs are like that? 22:49 This is A series? 22:55 Looks like an Ugly Cockroach & why is his voice high pitched? & this also doesn't have The Growing & Shrinking Painting The Roses Red Scenes 26:15 What are they Doing 27:17 I still don't understand what the duchess did? What does Boxx Mean? & I did not notice the little bow tie on Alice hair 28:48 DAMN that is your husband & The Duchess Lead Alice to the mock turtle Instead of the Queen 30:45 WHAT IS THIS 33:05 They Also stole the 1915 Mock Turtle Scene! 41:14 what did he do to you? 51:33 DAMN 51:41 Savage Alice 51:48 Shut up you Stewpit Batch 52:09 SO MANY CARDS! 52:15 What does this Mean 52:27 Your even doing that Face while Sleeping? can you stop 52:45 That's a weird Swing I give that a 8/10 It was kinda Creepy But Alice was kinda Savage & cute also The queen of hearts was Savage she even slapped the crab out of his husband

Irving Berlin!!! Wow

que buena pelicula 10/10

1:32 SEVEN DAYS!!

This has an evil feel

Alice in Wonderland (1933)

@mickeymouse2able

4 жыл бұрын

That version is so better and fascinating. You ARE talking about the one in which Cary Grant plays the mock turtle? Very weird version. The black and white makes it look like the Tenniel drawings.

Alice is beautiful :,)

How old is Alice in this incarnation? Looks at least 25. All very Lynchian.

good

5:20 I will not sleep tonight...

26:24 before there was #burgerking lol.

What in the Hell did I just watch?

🤔From the 1st time she opened her mouth I could tell she had an Obnoxious New York Accent. I guess every actor was from there, too. 😂

🤔🤔🤔🤔✝️✝️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Alice looks like an ancestor of Ami Winehouse

AI to colorize this would be great

Like

22:54 #jimmyrosen

14:48 must be the #marchhare on the left?

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Did I see a young Peter Cook in this ?

@JOBT0

8 ай бұрын

Well, he was born in 1936 I think, 5 years after this movie was made.

51:53 I like how they all ganged up on her, and she's like, "Square up nigga!"

The white rabbit 🫣

27:17 Did the White Rabbit said.... "She Fucks the Queen's Ears"?????

@Phantomwise2

6 жыл бұрын

"She boxed the Queen's ears." More on boxing ears: blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/engl-355-fall2013/2013/09/25/boxing-the-ears/

@thatwordjr2309

6 жыл бұрын

Oh..... That makes sense now.

@criminallyautistic8372

2 жыл бұрын

@@thatwordjr2309 Yeah he said "Boxed her ears" as in, I guess she smacked her. The 1982 version is probably the best way to demonstrate that action. In regards to her f*cking the queen's ears, with this film and the play it's based on, shipping the Duchess and the White Rabbit, I wouldn't be surprised if he did say that. If the f-bomb was a common curse word back then.

@warrax111

2 ай бұрын

bro has dirty mind,lol

This film stole the opening song from another film and it steals the lobster quadrille scene!

@haziqhakim5995

6 ай бұрын

If you know if is stolen then where are they from?

@biannxoxo

4 ай бұрын

​@@haziqhakim5995they're from alice in wonderland 1915 version

Bray Wyatt couldn't have done a better job with this film

Harlequin does Alice 😂😂 who knew?

Esta chiva la versión

17:41

Creepy!