Alice in Wonderland (1950)

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Lenny's description:
1950. A co-French/British production, also known as 'Alice au pays des merveilles'.

The movie was suppressed by Disney to protect their own production.

It's an adaptation of Lewis Carroll's book with a live Alice moving through painted sets and pixilated puppets. The movie is more true to the book than the Disney movie.

Seller's description:
This exceptional theatrical version of Lewis Carroll's 1865 classic features a combination of live characters and puppets, created by master puppeteer Louis Bunin. The cast includes Carol Marsh as Alice along with Stephen Murray, Felix Aylmer, Ernest Milton, and Pamela Brown (in live sequences and as voices of the puppets). Directed by Dallas Bower, this lively and fun production includes some wonderful musical numbers that will be enjoyed by all ages.


Product details:

Item number (ASIN): B000IMVJDM
Actor: Stephen Murray, Felix Aylmer, Ernest Milton, and Pamela Brown Carol Marsh
Category: DVD
Director: Dallas Bower
Format: NTSC
Languages: English
Manufacturer: Vision Video
Number Of Items: 1
Package Dimensions: 58 x 542 x 710 (hundredths-inches)
Publisher: Vision Video
Release Date: September 18, 2006
Running Time: 83, minutes

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Rating: - excellent re-creation
I enjoyed this movie as a child, and am very happy to finally own it, and now I can share it with my children also. I had a copy on VHS that someone copied off another VHS for me, but the quality was very poor. Although this is a very old movie, and I understand that most of the film copies were destroyed somehow, this version is the best that I've seen yet. The stop-motion animation done by Lou Bunin is a delight, and the musical score is set to lyrics straight from Lewis Carroll's book. Love it! Love it! Love it!

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Rating: - ZZZZZZZ
Ordered this because of some distant childhood memory of seeing it on TV. The song, "I'm Upside-down" had been in my mind ever since and for years I had tried to track it down, not really knowing which version I had seen. When I finally found this, it did not live up to my memories. The tranfer was what I had expected: watchable, but old, soft-focus VHS quality. The film itself, though, was hard to get into becuse a good deal of time is spent at the beginning with Lewis Carroll (Dodson) and his University cronies. It seemed endless and by the time Alice finally fell down the rabbit hole, I had fallen asleep.

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Rating: - From a former student of Lou Bunin
I had the privilege of meeting and studying with Lou Bunin while at college. He was very proud of this film, and rueful regarding the circumstances which kept it from wider release. In our class, Bunin ran a beautiful 16mm print of his "Alice" that was superior to the copy on this DVD. How unfortunate that the original colors and crispness are lost. This DVD version has no chapter stops, special features, interviews, or commentary. Too bad; it's a film that could have used them. For animators and fans of stop motion, I'd say take a look, and at least the price is lower than the usual. But even for devotees of the "Alice" stories, the film itself can be dense and off-putting, in that it faithfully recreates the arch cynicism and curious aloofness of the original story. This film cries out for a loving restoration: sadly, this isn't it, but it may be the only way to see Bunin's "Alice" for the time being. Bunin was a wonderful, warm, and talented man, and this feature is, to many, his most lasting legacy. If viewers can see beyond the limitations of the poor transfer, they may come away impressed with the artistry and cleverness of the movie's dream-like design.

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Rating: - Poor technical quality
It's great to have this adaptation of Carroll's story on DVD, but the presentation is quite shoddy. I saw this film at the National Film Theatre in London, and the audience was warned then that the best available print was in poor shape. The particular brand of film stock it was shot on was unstable, and the colour fidelity of the print shown was inconsistent. The film also suffered from some sort of chemical decay down one side of the image. These faults have been faithfully reproduced on this DVD edition. Sadly, the DVD transfer has only compounded these problems. It's been mastered from an analogue tape source, and quite a low quality one at that (possibly U-Matic). The tracking of the playback isn't stable, and the top third of the picture suffers from chroma problems. On computer monitors, or other displays with no overscan, you can see head switching artefacts at the bottom of the screen. In summary: this a wonderful adaptation of the story, marred by photochemical decay of the print, and further blighted by shoddy video mastering.

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Rating: - Alice in Wonderland
Thank goodness this came out. I've been wanting to see it since 1992. Although the print quality looks like it was dubbed from a VHS tape at amateur level. This 1950s colour movie tells the story well. Peter

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