Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)

Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the Alice books by Lewis Carroll. The 13th of Disneys animated features, the film premiered in New York City and London on July 26, 1951. The film features the voices of Kathryn Beaumont who also voiced Wendy Darling in the 1953 Disney film Peter Pan as Alice, and Ed Wynn as the Mad Hatter.

On a golden spring day at the riverbank, Alice grows bored listening to her sister read aloud from a history book. When her sister prevents Alices daydreaming, Alice tells her kitten Dinah that she can live in a nonsensical magical land called Wonderland. While daydreaming, Alice spots a waistcoatwearing White Rabbit passing by, exclaiming that he is late for an important date. Alice gives chase and follows him into a large, furnished rabbit hole. Alices dress catches her fall like a parachute, and she floats gently down. Seeing the White Rabbit disappear into a tiny door, Alice tries to follow him but is too big for the door...whose talking knob advises her to alter her size using a mysterious bottle marked Drink Me. The contents cause her to shrink rapidly. Unfortunately, the door is locked and the key is out of reach. Alice then treats herself to a cookie that says Eat Me and expands large enough to fill the entire room. She weeps large tears which flood the room like an ocean. Another drink from the bottle causes Alice to shrink again the doorknob is forced to let her through or drown in Alices tears. Alice floats through the doors keyhole and into Wonderland. She meets numerous strange characters the Dodo followed by Tweedledee and Tweedledum, who recount the tale of The Walrus and the Carpenter.Alice eventually tracks the White Rabbit to his house she is sent to retrieve some gloves after being mistaken for his housemaid. She eats a cookie and grows into a giant again, getting stuck in the Rabbits house. The White Rabbit, the Dodo, and chimney sweep Bill the Lizard think Alice is a monster. They plot to burn the house down, but Alice escapes by eating a carrot and shrinking to the size of an insect. She meets a garden of talking flowers who initially welcome her with a song, but then suddenly mistake Alice for a weed and chase her off. Alice is instructed by Caterpillar to eat a piece of his mushroom so that she can return to her original size. Alice keeps th

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