Alice in Wonderland (1903 film)

Alice in Wonderland
Directed by	Cecil Hepworth Percy Stow
Produced by	Cecil M. Hepworth Herman Casler (exec. producer) Elias Koopman (exec. producer) Harry Marvin (exec. producer)
Written by	Lewis Carroll (book) Cecil M. Hepworth
Based on	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Starring	May Clark Cecil M. Hepworth Mrs. Cecil Hepworth Norman Whitten
Cinematography	Cecil M. Hepworth
Edited by	American Mutoscope and Biograph Company Edison Manufacturing Company Kleine Optical Company
Release date	17 October 1903
Running time	approx. 8:19 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	Silent

Alice in Wonderland is a 1903 British silent film directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow. Only one copy of the original film is known to exist. The British Film Institute (BFI) partially restored the movie and its original film tinting and released it in 2010. According to BFI, the original film ran about 12 minutes; the restoration runs 9 minutes and 35 seconds. At the beginning of the restoration, it states that this is the first movie adaptation of Lewis Carroll's children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

The film is memorable for its use of special effects, including Alice's shrinking in the Hall of Many Doors, and in her large size, stuck inside of White Rabbit's home, reaching for help through a window.

It is now available from several sources, and is included as a bonus feature on a 1996 BBC DVD. It is also included on Vintage Cinema - experiments in early film 1900s DVD.

Plot

Alice follows a large White Rabbit down a "Rabbit-hole". She finds a tiny door. When she finds a bottle labeled "Drink me", she does, and shrinks, but not enough to pass through the door. She then eats something labeled "Eat me" and grows larger. She finds a fan when enables her to shrink enough to get into the "Garden" and try to get a "Dog" to play with her. She enters the "White Rabbit's tiny House," but suddenly resumes her normal size. In order to get out, she has to use the "magic fan."

She enters a kitchen, in which there is a cook and a woman holding a baby. She persuades the woman to give her the child and takes the infant outside after the cook starts throwing things around. The baby then turns into a pig and squirms out of her grip. "The Duchess's Cheshire Cat" appears and disappears a couple of times to Alice and directs her to the Mad Hatter's "Mad Tea-Party." After a while, she leaves.

The Queen invites Alice to join the "ROYAL PROCESSION": a parade of marching playing cards and others headed by the White Rabbit. When Alice "unintentionally offends the Queen", the latter summons the "Executioner". Alice "boxes the ears", then flees when all the playing cards come for her. Then she wakes up and realizes it was all a dream.

Cast

• Alice: May Clark
• Frog: Cecil M. Hepworth
• White Rabbit / Queen of Hearts: Mrs. Hepworth
• Mad Hatter / Fish: Norman Whitten
• Playing Card: Geoffrey Faithfull
• Playing Card: Stanley Faithfull

The cast also includes a large number of child actors as playing cards.

References

Alice in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Through the Looking-Glass | The Hunting of the Snark 🐰Universe🎩 Characters Alice | White Rabbit | Dodo | Bill the Lizard | Caterpillar | Duchess | Cheshire Cat | March Hare | Hatter | Dormouse Queen of Heats | King of Hearts | Knave of Heats | Gryphon | Mock Turtle | Red Queen | White Queen | Red King White King | White Knight | Tweedledum and Tweedledee | Sheep | Humpty Dumpty | The Lion and the Unicorn Bandersnatch | Jubjub bird Locations Wonderland | Looking-glass world Related Lewis Carroll | The Annotated Alice | Mischmasch Works based on Alice in Wonderland (Films and television | Disney franchise) Translations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Translations of Through the Looking-Glass | Unbirthday 🐰Media🎩 Film 1903 | 1910 | 1915 | 1931 | 1933 | 1949 | 1951 | 1966 | 1972 | 1976 | 1982 | 1985 | 1987 | 1988 (Czechoslovak) 1988 (Australian) | 1995 | 1999 Stage Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (ballet) | Alice in Wonderland (musical) | Alice in Wonderland (opera) But Never Jam Today (Carroll musical) | Wonderland (Wildhorn musical) | Peter and Alice (2013 play) Wonder.land (Albarn musical) Television Fushigi no Kuni no Alice | Once Upon a Time in Wonderland Poems "All in the golden afternoon..." | "How Doth the Little Crocodile" | "The Mouse's Tale" | "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat" "You Are Old, Father William" | "'Tis the Voice of the Lobster" | "Jabberwocky" | "The Walrus and the Carpenter" "Haddocks' Eyes" | "The Mock Turtle's Song" | "The Hunting of the Snark" Sequels A New Alice in the Old Wonderland (1895) | New Adventures of Alice (1917) | Alice of Wonderland in Paris (1966) Alice Through the Needle's Eye (1984) | Automated Alice (1996) Wonderland Revisited and the Games Alice Played There (2009) Retellings The Nursery "Alice" (1890) | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland retold in words of one syllable (1905) Alice in Verse: The Lost Rhymes of Wonderland (2010) Parodies The Westminster Alice (1902) | Clara in Blunderland (1902) | Lost in Blunderland (1903) John Bull's Adventures in the Fiscal Wonderland (1904) | Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream (1904) Imitations Davy and the Goblin (1884) | The Admiral's Caravan (1891) | Gladys in Grammarland (1896) | A New Wonderland (1898) Rollo in Emblemland (1902) | Justnowland (1912) | Alice in Orchestralia (1925) Reimagining Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1966) | Alice or the Last Escapade (1977) Adventures in Wonderland (1991) | The Looking Glass Wars (2006) | Alice (2009) | Malice in Wonderland (2009) Alice in Wonderland (2010) | Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) Literary Alice in Murderland | Alice in the Country of Hearts | Miyuki-chan in Wonderland Video games Alice no Paint Adventure (1995) | Alice in Wonderland (2000) | American McGee's Alice (2000) | Alice in Wonderland (2010) Alice: Madness Returns (2011)