Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a work of children's literature by the English mathematician and author, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, written under the pseudonym Lewis Carrolll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy realm populated by talking playing cards and anthropomorphic creatures.
The movie Alice in Wonderland is the thirteenth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. Walt Disney had been interested in the Alice novels and had tried adapting the first book during the late 1930s and early 1940s; unfortunately, World War II caused the project to be shelved. After the war, Disney decided to take characters from both of the Alice novels and use them in the planned movie.
The film was originally released to theaters on July 28, 1951. Lewis Carrolll's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass have been frequently adapted for film; this animated adaptation solved the problems of the setting.
Upon its release, the film was panned by critics and failed miserably at the box office. Disney later said he despised the film, claiming that, unlike Cinderella, Alice had a lack of "heart" and that compared to the sympathetic Cinderella (whom most people felt for), most people did not care about Alice.
The film features the voices of Kathryn Beaumont as Alice and Ed Wynn as the Mad Hatter. Made under the supervision of Walt Disney himself, this film and its animation are often regarded as some of the finest work in Disney studio history, despite the lackluster, even hostile, reviews it originally received.
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