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On July 4th, 1862 ten year old Alice Liddell and her sisters Ina and Edith set out from Folly Bridge in a row boat with the 30-year-old Charles Lutwidge Dodgeson. During their trip, Alice asked him to tell them a story, and in his vast imagination, Dodgeson conjured up a whimsical tale about a young girl, named Alice, who followed a white rabbit down a rabbit hole.
Alice loved it so much she begged him to write it down for her. His improvised yarn would become “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground”, which would then become a classic of nonsense literature “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”.
Dive down the rabbit hole with me as I discuss the story origin of Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland”.
Produced By
Princess King Taylor and Kyle Allcorn
Music
“Welcome to Wonderland” by TheStoryShop
“Alice’s Wonderland” by Alexander Rannie
Recommended Reading
The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition
Discovering the Whimsical, Thoughtful, and Sometimes Lonely Man
Who Created “Alice in Wonderland” By Jenny Woolf
Bibliography
Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures under Ground. Guildford, Eng.: Genesis Publications in Association with Australia and New Zealand Book, 1979.
Carroll, Lewis (1999-11-17). The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition W. W. Norton & Company. Kindle Edition.
Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert. The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.
Korkis, Jim (2012-12-05). The Revised Vault of Walt: Unofficial, Unauthorized, Uncensored Disney Stories Never Told. Theme Park Press. Kindle Edition
Woolf, Jenny (2010-03-04). The Mystery of Lewis Carroll: Discovering the Whimsical, Thoughtful, and Sometimes Lonely Man Who Created “Alice in Wonderland” St. Martin’s Press. Kindle Edition.
Film
Alice and the White Rabbit. Walt Disney Productions, 1951. DVD.
Alice in Wonderland. Prod. Walt Disney. Perf. Kathryn Beaumont. RKO Radio Pictures, 1951. DVD.
Initiation of Alice in Wonderland: The Looking Glass of Lewis Carroll. Dir. Philip Gardiner. Perf. Julie Dickson-Gardiner and Philip Gardiner. Reality Entertainment, 2010. DVD
World Wide Web
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. About. Web. http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/a/alices-adventures-in-wonderland/about-alices-adventures-in-wonderland
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. SparkNotes. SparkNotes, Web. http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/alice/
Alice in Wonderland. Disney Wiki. N.p., n.d. Web. 2015. http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland
The Alice In Wonderland Story First Told – http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/alice-wonderland-story-first-told
Curiouser and Curiouser: The Evolution of Wonderland. Lauren Millikan, 9 Feb. 2011. http://www.carleton.edu/departments/ENGL/Alice/index.html
Lenny’s Alice in Wonderland Site – http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/
Lewis Carroll. (2015). The Biography.com website. http://www.biography.com/people/lewis-carroll-9239598.
Lewis Carroll’s “The Mouse’s Tale“ Web. http://bootless.net/mouse.html.
Magenta. “What Does the Glowing Red R in the Carpenter and the Walrus Story Mean, in Alice in Wonderland?” Yahoo! Answers. Yahoo!, Web. https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090717114831AAXhha3
Ness, Mari. “An Intriguing Failure: Disney’s Alice in Wonderland.” Tor.com, 11 June 2015. Web. http://www.tor.com/2015/06/11/an-intriguing-failure-disney-alice-in-wonderland/.
“The Secret World of Lewis Carroll.” YouTube. YouTube, 2 Feb. 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irlpvtwu1Rs
SparkNotes. Through the Looking Glass. SparkNotes, Web. http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/through-the-looking-glass/
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