Event

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

Wednesday, August 10 at 7:30pm
Lou Bunin's 1951 classic
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Filming Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland was a longtime dream of animator
Louis Bunin. Everything in the production was first rate: the cast for the
live action who also provided the voices for the animated puppets included such
stalwarts as Pamela Brown, Felix Aylmer, and Joyce Grenfell; the choreographer
was the renowned Roland Petit; the director of photography was Claude Renoir;
and one of the screenwriters was Albert Lewin (The Picture of Dorian Gray, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman). The film opens
with a whimsically bizarre prologue with Charles Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll writing a letter to Queen Victoria complaining about
the incessant tolling of a bell donated to Oxford by Charles II. His letter falls into the hands of Dean Liddell (the real Alice's father)
who orders Dodgson to take it up with the queen upon her visit to Oxford. Dodgson chickens out on the day of her visit and
instead takes the three Liddell sisters rowing on the river. There he begins to tell them the story of Alice's adventures in
Wonderland. Down the rabbit hole goes the real-life Alice to begin her legendary encounters with the Mad Hatter, the March Hare,
the Red Queen, and all of Carroll other amazing creations. (USA/France/UK, 1951, 83 min., color 35mm print from BFI)
Puppets On The Sound
Focus on Alice in Wonderland
ADULTS ONLY - NO ONE UNDER 17 ADMITTED
Speaker: TBA
Members: $9 / Public $13