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The "Alice Comedies" are a series of animated cartoons created by Walt Disney in the 1920s, in which a live action little girl named Alice and an animated cat named Julius have adventures in an animated landscape.

Alice's Wonderland

Disney, Ub Iwerks, and their staff that made the first Alice Comedy which is a cartoon, a one-reel (ten-minute) short subject titled Alice's Wonderland, while still heading the failing Laugh-O-Gram Studio in Kansas City, Missouri. After completing the film, the studio went bankrupt and was forced to shut down. After raising money by working as a freelance photographer, Disney bought a one-way train ticket to Los Angeles, California to live with his uncle Robert and his brother Roy.
In California, Disney continued to send out proposals for the Alice series, in hopes of a distribution deal, which was finally arranged through Winkler Pictures, run by Margaret Winkler and her fianceé, Charles Mintz. Alice's Wonderland starts off with Alice entering a cartoon studio so she can watch cartoons being created. The cartoon characters come to life and play around, and Alice is amazed by what she sees. After heading to bed that night, Alice dreams that she's in the cartoon world, being welcomed by all the creations. Alice plays around with the cartoons until danger approaches: a group of lions break free from a cage and chase her.
This short helped set the stage for what was to come in the later Alice Comedies, as it established the world as a playful dream, and also introduced the elements which would soon define the series.

Content

Although seen as cute and funny in their time, the Alice Comedies contain content which might be considered surprising and somewhat harsh today. Alice is a little girl, yet she spends much of her time avoiding danger, and even getting kidnapped by the cartoon villains, threatened with such perils as being tied to a log in a sawmill. These scenes are parodies of similar scenes in movie serials such as The Perils of Pauline (1914), starring actress Pearl White.
Although all of Alice's threats are cartoon drawings, some might find the imagery a bit disturbing due to the character's young age, and the fact that she's a real person. Others might find these comedies simply light-hearted and fun, due to the portrayal.

DVDS

In 2005 and again in 2007, an combine 10 Alice Comedies were released as part of the Walt Disney Treasures. Seven were part of the Disney Rarities that was released in 2005. While three more were released as part of The Adventures of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. That Treasure was released in 2007.
One cartoon created in 1925 was called Alice's Egg Plant, which was anti-union propaganda, suggesting that labor strikes were caused by Communist agitators. Furthermore, some illegal activities such as bootlegging are portrayed, with Alice herself in ownership of "home brew" in "Alice Rattled by Rats."

Shorts

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FilmThe following shorts was either released on DVD in 2005 or 2007 1923	Alice's Wonderland
Alice Gets in Dutch
Alice's Wild West Show
Alice Gets Stung
Alice's Egg Plant
Alice in the Jungle
Alice Mysterious Mystery
Alice in the Wooly West
Alice's Balloon Race
Alice the Whaler

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