Following a period of trial and error, she returns to her original height and keeps the remaining pieces in her pocket. Before leaving, the Caterpillar advises Alice to eat a piece from different sides of a mushroom to alter her size. Alice then encounters a Caterpillar smoking, who becomes enraged at Alice after she laments her small size (which is the same as the Caterpillar's), after which the Caterpillar turns into a butterfly and flies away. When the Dodo decides to burn the house down, Alice escapes by eating a carrot from the Rabbit's garden, which causes her to shrink to 3 inches tall.Ĭontinuing to follow the Rabbit, Alice meets a garden of talking flowers who initially welcome her with a song, but then banish her, believing that humans are a type of weed. Thinking her a monster, the Rabbit asks the Dodo to help expel her. While searching for the gloves, Alice finds and eats another cookie and grows giant, getting stuck in the house. Alice tracks the Rabbit to his house he mistakes her for his housemaid, "Mary Ann", and sends her inside to retrieve his gloves. As Alice continues to follow the Rabbit after encountering a "Cacaus Race", she encounters numerous characters, including Tweedledum and Tweedledee, who recount the tale of " The Walrus and the Carpenter". She takes another sip from the bottle to shrink again, and rides the empty bottle through the keyhole. Exasperated by these changes of state, she begins to cry and floods the room with her tears. She then eats a cookie that causes her to grow excessively. She shrinks to an appropriate height, but has forgotten the key on the table. Upon landing in a place called Wonderland, she finds herself facing a tiny door, whose handle advises drinking from a bottle on a nearby table. Alice follows him into a burrow and plummets down a deep rabbit hole. She spots a passing White Rabbit in a waistcoat, who panics of being late. In a park in England, a young girl named Alice with her cat, Dinah, listens distractedly to her sister's history lesson, and begins daydreaming of a nonsensical world. Although the film received generally negative critical reviews on its initial release, it has been more positively reviewed over the years.Ī computer-animated reboot series, Alice's Wonderland Bakery, premiered on February 9, 2022.
Its 1974 re-release in theaters proved to be much more successful, leading to subsequent re-releases, merchandising and home video releases. The film was originally intended to be a live-action/animated film, but Disney decided it would be a fully animated film.Īlice in Wonderland was considered a disappointment on its initial release, therefore was shown on television as one of the first episodes of Disneyland. Walt Disney first tried to adapt Alice into a feature-length animated film in the 1930s and revived the idea in the 1940s. It features the voices of Kathryn Beaumont as Alice, Sterling Holloway as the Cheshire Cat, Verna Felton as the Queen of Hearts, and Ed Wynn as the Mad Hatter. The thirteenth release of Disney's animated features, the film premiered in London on July 26, 1951, and in New York City on July 28, 1951. Because with these songs, this recording, I might have accidentally made a good case for the Sunshine State.Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the Alice books by Lewis Carroll. After a while I stopped chasing them off, and I’m glad I did. From a talking Blue Macaw on a man’s shoulder in Key West, to a radio report about cold-stunned iguanas falling from tree branches, to a silver haired Siesta Key neighbor who uncannily resembled an ibis, birds and flying things began appearing everywhere, including in my songs. But the tunes started landing, like, well, birds. “I was just trying to get through a really, really long winter, like everybody else. “I was not looking for songs in Florida,” Werner says.
Werner’s signature sharp lyrics capture the beauty and strangeness of the Sunshine State – from the playful lead track “Florida La La La” to the beach stroll of a love song “I Could Get Used To This” to the heartfelt and poetic “The Birds of Florida.” Produced by drummer Erik Johnson (Huffamoose), the lush arrangements feature Gulf and Western sounds ranging from rumba to reggae to bolero ballads to Bakersfield twang. “I wound up riding out the winter of the pandemic in Siesta Key near Sarasota,” Werner says, “And despite my best efforts to relax, I somehow left with an album.” Panthers iguanas and flamingoes meet up with dobros, bongos and marimbas on songwriter Susan Werner’s colorful new EP The Birds Of Florida.