Alice in Wonderland (1903) - Lewis Carroll | BFI National Archive
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The first-ever film version of Lewis Carroll's tale has recently been restored by the BFI National Archive from severely damaged materials. Made just 37 years after Lewis Carroll wrote his novel and eight years after the birth of cinema, the adaptation was directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow, and was based on Sir John Tenniel's original illustrations. In an act that was to echo more than 100 years later, Hepworth cast his wife as the Red Queen, and he himself appears as the Frog Footman. Even the Cheshire cat is played by a family pet. With a running time of just 12 minutes (8 of which survive), Alice in Wonderland was the longest film produced in England at that time. Film archivists have been able to restore the film's original colours for the first time in over 100 years.
Music: 'Jill in the Box', composed and performed by Wendy Hiscocks.
This restoration was supported by The Headley Trust and The Pilgrim Trust.
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in 100 years people are going to look at this comments section and say "all these people are dead!"
***** we'll all be dead anyway lol if you can read this message in 2116: greetings time traveller! avenge my death!!!
Unless something very bad happens youtube will probability still be around but they may change the comment system so much that this comment will be deleted.
I'll be in Heaven.
....Agree.
Hi if you are watching this in +50 years I am gonna be probably dead
The fun fact is that real life Alice Liddel was still alive when this movie was made!
Risner France Garces - It’s true. Alice Liddell lived until 1934, a whole 31 years after this film first released.
Here’s some more info, if you’re interested: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Liddell
@Risner France Garces She was the muse for the character of Alice. Not that hard to figure out since they have the same fucking name.
@@laobok lol
@Rare Color Films SHUT UP ASSHOLE
Elizabeth Ramirez WTF is your problem bitch?
What shocks me is how this film is so incredible for 1903 and was preserved in such a long time without being lost forever. Most films durning that time are now lost forever and now are impossible to be even seen nowadays. So, this film not being lost in the 21st century is incredibly wonderful
Give that cat an Oscar.
KittyPouncer he's over 100 years old
Yeti Man he's nothing but a skeleton now.
The cat may be a great great great great great great relative of Grumpy Cat?
Bonnie Hundley or Garfield's brother or relative to grumpiness cats
I dunno. He is less Cheshire cat and more Grumpy cat.
Gives me the shivers thinking I am seeing a movie that is more than 100 years old, but it's a weird and indescribable feeling.
You know, me too!
It gives me shivers reading your comment which is 5 years old.
@@dotheyfloat9961 yea xD
@@dotheyfloat9961 yours is a year old but I don't shiver over it.
Absolutely! Me too! It's wonderful!
This movie is 120 years old as of this year. It's honestly a nice little film that still looks amazing. The special effects are definitely something that would be hard to achieve with the limited resources of films made at the time.
I loved seeing the kids dressed up as cards at the end - smiling and having fun just like todays kids at that age..
They also couldn't help but steal glances at the camera. The Six of Diamonds loses her hat and the Eight of Diamonds nearly steps on it. (7:33)
I love these kids too. They were only kids that lived in the 1900's that's all but they had leisure and games even if they had no TV or video games like today kids. Kids of that time smiled when they were filmed or had fun with their siblings and they had dolls and other toys fortunately especially in wealthy families.I love seeing kids of this era.
@@laobok Everyone should inhabit a place on Twitter...
Why not remind everyone how much there is to learn
about random posts and the rejects who make them?
@@theunknowngamer5477 What you said did not make a modicum of sense.
@@laobok YES
I am very fond of the grumpy cheshire cat in this.
feeling weird thinking that im watching this in 2017 like It's 114 years passed
Yeah i also had this feeling the first time i watched this animation but it is amazing and to be honest i cannot get tired of it. I watch this animation every time i can ,at least twice a month and even more. And I am hypnotised by the music.I feel like i 'm making a trip in the past.
@@frenchieseverine4514 people will feel similar weird and curious when they watch our movies and you tube channel in 2119
And me, in 2019!
Now it's Twenty-Twenty(2020)
its 2020 what are you freakin talking about
Yes, people: Everyone in this film is now deceased. I checked all the names associated with this film and no one is alive, obviously.
Margaret Hope McGuffie, who played the White Rabbit and the Queen, passed away at 43, the youngest (1874-1917.) May Clark, who played Alice, passed away at 94, the oldest (1889-1984.)
David Frigault I could only find those who were listed on film credits; any other individuals taking part in this film, to the best of my knowledge, are not mentioned and most likely deceased.
David Frigault Of COURSE they're all dead! This film is 112 years old. Even a child of 3 back then would have to be 115 years-old today. Come on, do some math!
ᏰᏗşιℓ Thank you for your hard work at research.
***** Bitch, you is cray!
ᏰᏗşιℓ Thank you for your research as I, for one, appreciated it.
Just think, we are watching a piece of cinema before even WWI and the sinking of the titanic!
And that girl's parents would have been alive during the American Civil War.
You just blew my mind with that damn
Grumpiest cat ever for the Cheshire cat! Wonderful film
The Original Grumpy Cat!
Hm, I wonder why the dog only showed up for a few frames. Lost footage? Kinda weird. But really, for its time, the special effects are pretty darn impressive! Especially the growing/shrinking, and the superimposition of the Cheshire Cat. If you think about how hard that would be to do with raw film, it most likely left audiences in awe. I'm glad this was preserved and shared with us. :)
Well, the film is supposed to be 12 minutes long, so there was probably some unsalvageable footage that had to be cut. Hopefully another print resurfaces with some of the missing material.
@@PkmariO64 yea it's a shame so many movies might never be seen again
Yes! I was so impressed with shrinking and growing and the cat! People have always been so clever.
They probably just built a larger version of the set to make the actress look small.
@@SatumainenOlento Watch la voyage dans le lune
This was so awesome! All the kids looked so cute in their little card costumes.
I was in a little card costume for a play
The kids are our great great great grandfather and grandma!
Those kids have lived full lives, grew old, became parents, became grandparents, some maybe became great-grandparents. They've been alive during two world wars, they've experienced cinema becoming a big thing, cars were slowly becoming a normal thing when these kids grew up. Just think about how much has changed since they performed their scenes for this film.
@@currykingwurst6393 they are the same age and generation of the popular Rudolph valentino ,Charlie Chaplin and Mary pickford!
@@currykingwurst6393 or maybe they all died in the war?
Queen Victoria had only been dead about 2 years, and Walt Disney was just a 2 year old toddler when this was made. Awesome film. Nicely restored. 🎞 🎬 🎥 📽
This is charming and delightful, even by 2020 standards! But in 1903, this would have been AMAZING, and almost like MAGIC! Audiences would have been thrilled! It's wonderful this film has been preserved, while many are lost forever! Time Travel is possible after all?
Don't know if time travel is possible or not but we really need it
Absolutely incredible! And amazing for the time period. Especially the grow/shrink effects in the hallway, it's not like they could just CGI that in back then! Gorgeous. I love it.
this gives me a sence of sadness and nostalgia for some reason
Same
It's called being a human being........you are probably making your first steps in turning your television off and widening your mind, do not be frightened
Were you around in 1903 then...
@@davids8449 what the actual FUCK are you talking about
Your consciousness is merely regurgitated into a new fleshy mass when you die, continuing the cycle for generations, I have no idea what I’m talking about.
*when comments on an old flick become spiritual*
Amazing that this is 112 years old, I love these silent films its a glimpse into the world when the 20th century was just beginning
Stoopid this was 117 years ago. Dummy.
@@xakdish4169 fuck you
Docetil _ u wanna fuck me?
@@xakdish4169 yeaaaaa
@@xakdish4169 stfu
Absolutely amazing how they managed to piece this together back then with all of those special effects!
This is awesome! It was the very first version of Alice in Wonderland and the special effects were good and the storyline was respected. All the actors are dead now but they left a print even if they couldn't know we would watch this movie 110 years later.May they rest in peace.
I loved the last little diamond card running behind the others and the adult actors obviously waiting for them to catch up with the Queen putting a caring arm around their shoulder.
Im imagining people coming out of the theater telling other folks how impressed they are with the state of the art visual effects in the movie.
Most people think about how all these people are dead, but I'm more in awe of how all these people were alive in the 1800's. Some of them remember a time before lightbulbs and here they are in a movie. Amazing
To add to that, some people who were born in the 1700s would have still been alive when this movie was released, and some of those people would have known people who existed all the way back in the 1600s, 400 years ago
Most male children in this movie fought and died in WW1
I was thinking the same thing!Quite poignant, as most things in life.
Garbage Day why did you have to say that, i can’t watch this the same :(
Or died on the spanish flu
cholera not ww1
This is a cursed comment
I don't get why people find looking at entertainment from the early 20th century creepy, besides that most of the actors are dead, but then so what? None can be alive forever. I quite enjoy most things from this era, to be honest, a lot of the entertainment was better than what we have now, but that's just my opinion, I don't know about you guys :P
DASHFIST Eh, I guess I must be really wierd then. Most people find this stuff creepy, but Some people don't. Kinda like how most people are terrified of spiders, and then some are like "awww their so cute! I want one as pet" and we all think they're crazy. Hmm?
If you don't like this film, don't see it, get out of here and don't write bad opinion. It's only your opinion and one bad opinion. In disgrace, many moron people like you exist.
Victor Murillo you realize I said that I *like* the movie right? Did you even read what I wrote?
Eisen Heinrich I find it creepy but I love creepy things
Murphy Star I don't usually like creepy things, but I suppose this must be the exception?
The only adaptation of Alice I’ve seen with a real cat as the Cheshire Cat! Any other time, he’s animated (ink & paint/CGI) or someone wearing makeup.
This is incredible seeing this right after I saw Tim Burtons version. It's amazing how far technology has come and how great writing can be used again and again over a 100 years.
I really don't know why, but watching footage of any kind from the early 1900's kind of creeps me out.
Lol same! Even musics lol
***** This film was made more than 100 years ago. I think it's pretty safe to assume that they're all dead :P
that fucking rabbit tho
Try remembering that everyone you see was a human being, like you, and doing the best that was possible, given the state of equipment at the time. Remember, you had ancestors alive at that time who might have seen the same film you are watching now.
EyeLean5280 probs not cause most people back then didnt have the privilege of watching tv or using any other electronics, it was EXPENSIVE like only the richest of rich had it.
i find this kinder sad and upsetting all these people and animals are not alive now , but what a lovely movie
David Frigault The main characters would be in their late teens at least, this movie is 113 years old, they would be the oldest person alive if they were in this movie.
So there is a remote possibility but most likely not since the oldest person alive was born in 1898. Also, the cards aren't main characters, and your age estimation is a bit off, one of the cards would have been 10 at the time of the movie, so most likely 5 or 6 which would require they be as old or older than the handful of people known to be born before 1900.
Skyrim Victoria Nature off the beast skyrim we all end up in the boneyard you have a good day lass.
+Frith (Dunzerkug) The oldest person on earth was Jeanne Calmantt a french woman who was 123 yo at her death.
@@garbageday587 122*
this was so interesting!! the way they made the effects happen!! I know that by todays movie standards they're pretty rudimentary, but just putting yourself in the place of someone watching it when it was new.... it must have been mindblowing!!! lol, and the kids as the card soldiers was just so freakin precious
i love how DIY this film is, and the fact that the children at the end look as if they are having the time of their lives!!
Thanks for posting this historic find.
Book came out in 1864. This came out in 1903. That's 39 years.
The Disney animated film came out in 1951. It's 2016 right now. That's 65 years.
Think about that.
What's there to think about?
Please, leave drugs
It's 1865, NOT 1864.
If 1951 comes out and it's 2019, then That's 68 years since it came out.
Or check and search it on Google.
it's crazy that they were making UA-cam vids back in 1903.
This was amazingly good! And managed to put onto film many of the pen-and-ink drawings we all know. A rather good condensed version, for the 10 minutes they had!
The cat is definetly not smiling
I am only young but I love old films so much.
It's 110 years old
not anymore
116
117
118
The time between then and now is about the same time between then and the signing of the declaration of independance.
i prefer this to the star wars prequels. the dialogue in this is much better.
muggedinmadrid lol, this was way before Star Wars.
@@karenstrong6734 either you're joking, or you are a moron.
@@georgekurioreilly4857 I mean.... Her/His name is Karen.
*_EVEN FLEX TAPE CAN'T FIX THAT_*
wow how edgy
History is so fascinating!
As is this film!
Fantastic how it animates precisely so many of the Tenniel illustrations! My granny did a production in the back yard in the 1890s and we have pictures of it - with people dressed as playing cards.
Great job in restoring this classic. It's important to see the evolution of cinema. The effects they used even then are epic. I like how at the end of the story they seem to say "Ok now everbody run at Alice! Alice run! And ACTION!"
This was such an incredible treat. It was without risk when made, but so very brilliant. I love to imagine when live filming these scenes, every detail & the actual colors. I appreciate every aspect & effort. Thanks for the restoration & sharing of this gem.
Explore more amazing archive content with our "Britain on Film" initiative: ua-cam.com/play/PLXvkgGofjDzgHRWM46yYHJbV5FNUlHiOW.html
+BFI THIS IS THE STORY LIFE MAGAZINE USED TO CREATE A ILLUSION WITH....
LEE OSWALD (HARVEY WHITE RABBIT).
MARINA PRUSAKOVA (ALICE)
JFK (KING OF HEARTS) .
GEORGE demorinscild as (MAD HATTER)
HER APPOINTMENT TO KILL JFK..
. I SHOULD BE CREATING COVER UPS SINCE I CAN SOLVE THEM...
The music used : Erik SATIE "Jack in the box"
I love watching these old silent movies...something magical about it
A strange thought that everyone in the film, or involved with it, are now dead. Forever preserved on-screen.
I love when people feel the need to state the obvious. Idiot!
JOXCY forever preserved? Lol no our sun will consume the earth eventually.
Wow, I bet nobody else thought of that.
Wow. That this still exists is wonderful. I'm glad it was restored. So many wonderful silent films have been lost through the time.
118 yrs old. Thanks to the preservation of these films we could still watch
Watched this via my TV screen last night. What an amazing piece of film. I know nothing of the history behind it, but sure glad it's been preserved. Thank you.
A true masterpiece. A precious gem of the silent film era! I love this! I wish I could watch the remaining 4 minutes that are lost... :( But at least 8 minutes survived. :)
By far the most impressive part was the pack of cards running riot at the end, which is appropriate since this is the finale.This sequence also had minimal picture damage, which helped a great deal.
I wonder which joker thought of that?
DELIGHTFUL! So imaginative. Thank you BFI National Archive for the restoration.
121 years old. Incredible
Wonderful! And we have to remember that, at the time this was made, just the novelty of seeing pictures that moved was still fresh in the minds of the public, let alone the primitive, but at that time, innovative SFX. And the Cheshire Cat--even though he is without his characteristic smile, now likely qualifies this as being the oldest Cat Video posting on UA-cam! ...maybe...
A excellent rendition of this classic tale !
This is too well made for 1903 wow
Thank you for making this available. I enjoyed watching it.
Still better than twilight
Anything is better than Twilight.
True.
Yeah, but that's like being the fattest anorexic, or the world's most active three toed sloth, or the smartest person with extreme brain damage.
There weren't enough dusky maidens in Twilight.
Beautiful. I didn't know some of the effects they used could be done back then!
I'm so glad we still have the chance to see this kinda stuff, for all the old stick in the mud film buffs that turn their nose at digital media, just remember that it keeps these priceless films alive and watchable, which is alot more than what you generations did with them.
This is just remarkable, and beautiful, and amazing, and wonderful, and all those words that mean similar! just,... wow, lovely
thats really slow
your point is?
its slow... that's my point
Uhuh.
:D only me :D
and a lot of other people
This is beautiful, I love it!
But it's sad to know everyone in this video is dead now...
Maybe that baby's child or grand kid could be alive
I always think that when I watch old films, it hit me one day while watching the Wizard of Oz, all those people in the first film of its kind, all gone, the film lives on though which is good.
I know :( especially the little kids at the queens party :( R.I.P
" Le cinéma filme la mort au travail" Cinema films death at work- Jean Cocteau
They also are dead but they surely lived a good life and these kids were beautiful..May they rest in peace.That's life! Nobody can live forever.
that old slient movie with riping black dots and soo big creeps me out but but that slient movie is not too creepy but the ripping dots thingys are big is soo creepy abit I think
I founded fun....
It’s just where the film has degraded over the years
The hole film is creepy
Watching this for the first time, 121 years after it was first made 😱 thank you for restoring it 🙏
I really wish someone could re-restore this version frame by frame. It’s golden cinema history.
Alice in Wonderland is my absolute favorite children's story; I still read it to this day. I love this movie...
Amazing!! Absolutely wonderful. It great how something this old has survived this long.
Defiantly the best version I've ever seen. For 1903 the graphics are excellent
This video is a tremendous treasure! It is 117 years old!
- 1080 pp HD
- 720 pp HD
- 480 pp
- 360 pp
- 240 pp
- 144 pp
- Alice in Wonderland
well it is 1903
Ha ha ha😂
it looks hd for me. it had a verry high resolution. its only in bad conditon, but her face fir example you can see verry clear and sharp
My best favorite quality is HD
Ahahahah, true xD
It is badly damaged unfortunately, but I appreciate your posting this, always been my favorite story and I enjoy seeing all the versions of it. My favorite is the one starring Charlotte Henry from 1931.
This picture was remarkably well made and sophisticated for it's time. The special effects were actually quite good. And what is remarkable is that all of those actors except the baby were born in the 19th century!
Thank you so very much BFI archivists and film conservators. Mr. Carroll would love it!
Imagine if people could live forever. Thay would be telling us at the age of 140. What it was like growing up round about that time ago.
My teacher showed us this! It’s so cool how old things can be retrieved like this!!
We love how the label for Drink Me is gigantic so that we don't have to cut to an insert to show it because it's legible in the medium shot.
This is a gold mine in cinema history. Thank you for the awesome upload.
This is beautiful, nice work!
Sadly the people showed in the main video are now dead
That's one huge kitty 😃
Absolutely incredible, that this is the film debut of Alice in Wonderland. I'm also watching the 1915 version as well.
You gave me the desire and the opportunity to compose a new soundtrack for this film, thank you !
I found this to be delightful. Even though the effects were primitive. They still impressed me. It's amazing what simple trickery can do. Although perhaps it wasn't simple at the time. Who knows. My two negative points. (i) the actress was too old,and the flashing was a diastraction, but still bfi, thank you for this.
This is wonderful.
Kinda funny how we find these old videos a bit scary but to people of that time, it was completely normal
THANK YOU!!! My daughter and I loved this. So much better than the silly versions of recent years.
Wow that is really amazing! Im glad a friend told me about this. Such a shame the original is so damaged/lost but atleast we have this :)
This is awesome.
I like how in this Verison Alice gets to the garden early
I enjoy silent films because they not only give you a glimpse into the evolution of film as an art and a medium, but you are also privileged to witness a piece of history. These films are just as valuable as any artifact in a museum! Thanks for sharing! :-)
I've seen quite a few people who say this is fake, that it looks that it could be purposely damaged as the movements of the actors look too smooth for a 1903 camera and the resolution looks too good for that time even is it has been restored. Not sure what to think of those claims, but I noticed that if you pretend the damage to the film isn't there in certain parts of the film the resolution and the motion, I would imagine would, look quite smooth for an early 1900's film. But I still don't think this is fake, I mean there's articles and history documented on this film, it's actors, the director etc. Am I being too gullible to those claims?. I'm no expert on film or photography so can some one set me straight?
I initially thought it was fake but I found several articles online that support it's authenticity; I also read that it was included as bonus footage in several new DVD releases.
snakehands Yeah I read up on a lot sources that this is real but those claims that say this is fake kind of hold a good point, but I'm convincved this is real. As historical or popular this is surely experts would have debunked this long ago if this is fake
The biggest argument against this being fake is what would be the point? There are so many authentic films around from this period that I really can't see anything to be gained by the B.F.I and a great deal of credibility to be lost if they were found to be involved in a pointless hoax.
Also, movement never really is an exact thing with older film. The reason older film actors seem to move the way they do is mostly stylistic, to make do for the lack of audio, something that not every film HAD to do, of course, but strange movement also comes in part of frame rate changes that people were unaware of when scanning or showing film, often showing it too slow or too fast than originally intended.
As a clothing history nerd, I highly doubt this is fake. The clothing all the actors wear is very clearly an early 1900's attempt at whimsy; it's like how in modern costumes you can tell the silhouette is still influenced by modern sensibilities most times, the same is happening for their era here. It's especially noticeable for Alice and the Queen of Hearts (just LOOK at the shape of her dress). For the level of details that fit right into how early 1900's clothes worked, it'd have to either be original or a very, very, very, very, VERY well researched reproduction.
Oh my God this is so old! 0____0
99 years later I was born...
Lol kid... You shouldn't be on UA-cam then.
Go back to your mother...
Me? I was born 100 years after this
Same
I was born 104 years after this
I was born 97 years later
Thank you for sharing this rare film..
Amazing! Thank you for posting this!
That rabbit makes me think of Donnie Darko
This is fabulous !!! I am only 19 and I loved Oldest
amazing. thank you very much for upload. ...sheer magic.
Love this thanks for posting