During a break in the recording sessions, Ed Wynn ad libbed the speech where the Mad Hatter tries to “fix” the White Rabbit’s watch. (“Muthtard? Leth not be thilly!”) Walt Disney, who was listening in a nearby sound booth, saw that the recording tape was still recording Wynn’s speech. He told the sound technicians, “Hey, that stuff’s pretty funny. Why don’t you use that speech in the movie?” The sound men objected. “We can’t use that speech. There are too many background noises on the tape.” Disney smiled, and told them, “That’s *your* problem,” then walked out of the room. Eventually, with much labor, the sound technicians managed to erase all the background noises from the recording tape so that Ed Wynn’s ad libs could be used in the film.
The size-changing mushroom appears to be Entoloma undatum, a deadly toxic species, but is in fact a fantasy species found only in Wonderland.
When the Caterpillar changes, he loses his arms and legs. During the chase scene at the end of the movie, when Alice swims up to him on his floating mushroom, his arms and legs are back. This is part of his biology.
When the Caterpillar changes, he loses his arms and legs. During the chase scene at the end of the movie, when Alice swims up to him on his floating mushroom, his arms and legs are back. This is part of his biology. OOPS!
Retry: While Alice sings her line in “All in the Golden Afternoon,” the pansies behind her are mouthing along, yet only Alice’s voice is heard.
When the Caterpillar changes, he loses his arms and legs. During the chase scene at the end of the movie, when Alice swims up to him on his floating mushroom, his arms and legs are back. This is part of his biology.
The English novelist Aldous Huxley worked with Walt Disney on early scripts for this project in late 1945. The original idea was for a cartoon version of Alice embedded in a flesh-and-blood episode from Lewis Carroll’s life. Huxley’s mother, Julia Arnold, was one of the little girls that Carroll used to enjoy photographing, and to whom he told the Alice stories. The project was close to Huxley’s heart, but Disney found his work too intellectual, and it was not used. Huxley received no credit on the finished picture.
In the song “Painting the Roses Red”, after Alice sings “Oh, pardon me, but Mister Three, why must you paint them red?” the three cards say “Huh? Ohhhhhhh!”. When they say that, The three of clubs card has a three in the bottom right corner with no clubs symbol on top of the three. the three of clubs also has nothing in the top left corner. The ace and two of clubs have nothing in both of their corners. A few slides later, the symbols in the corners come back.
HIDDEN MICKEY In the scene where Alice grows and gets stuck in the White Rabbit’s house, if you look closely at the DoDo bird’s flame as he lights his pipe, there is a hidden Mickey flickering in the flame.
The Queen yells at Alice, “Your way!” and Alice falls down. As she hits the ground, her right hand and part of her dress disappear for a few frames.
In the Walrus and the Carpenter sequence, the dates on the calendar are the same for the year 2010, which is the month and year Disney would release Alice in Wonderland (2010), directed by Tim Burton.
The Caterpillar’s colors are reversed when he says “Keep your temper.” Normally, his body is blue-violet and his belly is light blue, but for that shot the body is light blue and the belly is blue-violet. Many creatures of reality as well as fantasy have color changing abilities.
Continuing the pattern of film versions of “Alice in Wonderland” not being commercially successful, this movie was a huge box office failure. However, it did become something of a cult film during the 1960s, where it was viewed as a “head film”
This movie is actually a combination of Lewis Carroll’s two “Alice” books, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass”.
In the opening credits, Lewis Carroll is spelled Lewis Carrol, missing the last letter.
The Doorknob was the only character in the film that did not appear in Lewis Carroll’s books.
In the Walrus and the Carpenter sequence, the R in the word “March” on the mother oyster’s calendar flashes. This alludes to the old adage about only eating oysters in a month with an R in its name. That is because those months without an R (May, June, July, August) are the summer months in England, when oysters would not keep due to the heat, in the days before refrigeration.
