"Alice's Wonderland" (1923)- Walt Disney's Laugh-O-Grams/ Walt Disney's Alice Comedies

[@AndrewsMagicandMore]

It's so hard to believe this short and the Disney Studios as a whole are both released and founded 100 years ago!

[@glumgummy]

Released October 16th, 1923. Writing this comment on October 16th, 2023. This and Walt Disney Animation Studios turn a century year old today. Absolutely incredible. Centuries from now Walt's legacy may still be thriving. Imagine that!

[@romevi]

I can't imagine the amount of time it took on this to get the timing and synchronization right. This looks really impressive for 1923.

[@BOB-wx3fq]

romevi I'm not 100% sure, but I bet they drew directly on the slides because of the reasons you stated.

[@timsmythfilmsandanimations]

No it is not an overlay, it is some sort of bi-pack.

[@PowerRangerfan]

Very good indeed

[@theechickengamerz]

Sound isn’t from 1923, I dont think they shipped sheet music with the reel

[@PowerRangerfan]

@@theechickengamerz Even so, three animation is superb for 1923.

[@_what._.]

Walt Disney was such a genius since the beginning. Shocking to think that this was created more than a century ago. The man at the beginning is Walt himself, at 22 y.o.

[@altracing9831]

Here's to 100 years of Disney, and hopefully many more to come

[@kaileyllewellyn]

I have seen Walt Before Mickey too many times to count and this is pretty impressive for the year of 1923. He was different from everyone else and produced cartoons that nobody had ever seen before. He was ahead of his time and he was very creative and his imagination was out of this world. When it comes to hard work and creativity he's my inspiration. I'm a huge Walt Disney fan!

[@salomeheredia9885]

So great and incredible, I would want to see this on TV and be a girl again 😁

[@vaness7461]

I cry inside when i see this cartoons quq AaaAaAaaAaahh Disney WTF!? Make a Alice comedie's reboot now please or a crossover with julius, boxer and oscar with Mickey please! quq

[@ryszardadamus4241]

And he was few times ahead to be a bankrupt, but was so determined to somehow do not give up. Otherwise Mickey wouldn't be born and he couldn't create any further magnificient productions he finally did.

[@daspartha1993]

Have you read the book "The Disney Version"

[@oskar9496]

Alice is so cute!! R.I.P. Virginia Davis 1918.12.31 - 2009.08.15

[@thegoldenknight4302]

WOW SHE WAS OLD

[@FyFanNollan]

That one virgin died

[@KaitlynG]

Alexander Avinger THAT WAS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE FOR SOMEONE TO LIVE THAT LONG BACK THEN! THEY USALLY DIED WHEN THEY WERE 60 OR 40

[@waltuh4]

He removed for he is copy of felix the cat

[@DefenderOfChrist_]

@@KaitlynG not really bro

[@andrewstephen1433]

Pretty impressive for 1923

[@user-iz7mw5mv1u]

There's an episode of Over the Garden Wall that's an almost shot-for-shot remake of the second half of this short. I wonder how many people got the reference.

[@coolghastproductions4883]

Lol me. I took like 5 screenshots at the similar scenes. Even how she rides in the elephant, greg rides in a similar elephant during the 8th episode song.

[@LetsLeaveSomeCoffeeRings]

Which episode?

[@user-iz7mw5mv1u]

Episode 8 with the dream sequence in the cloud city. Over The Garden Wall is full of references and influences from old Disney and Fleischer Brothers cartoons.

[@LetsLeaveSomeCoffeeRings]

Gotcha, Thanks.

[@AlexThe1Menace]

Another reference in OTGW was the episode with the highway man. Which his dance is supposed to look like classic rotoscope like Koko the Clown in Betty Boop.

[@poppycoquelicot1075]

Had to see this after watching Walt Before Mickey on netflix

[@elishajahmiller]

Haha. Same here.

[@Prettyoddbananaa]

Same! I'm literally half way through watching Walt before mickey right now :p

[@marianogonza6295]

Me too = b

[@disneymagic8464]

Poppy Coquelicot, me too

[@ginniekinz5401]

I did the same thing!

[@erindurkin4441]

Happy 100th Anniversary, Walt Disney! 🥳🎂🍾🥂🏰🎠🎡🎢🌈🎈✨🎉🎊🎁🎇🎆

[@triplucid3563]

Fun Fact: This inspired quite a NUMBER of things in "Over The Garden Wall" A WONDERFUL/AMAZING Story/Tale, & Animation {with GREAT literary merit even} put out by Cartoon Network! Especially Episode 8* "Babes in The Woods"

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

I'm actually here because I've been wanting to do a Warner Bros. and Disney animated shorts-a-thon for a long time and finally got around to starting it. Working my way through the 20s. This is the first thing that's impressive so far lol.

[@robotwrench]

Wait you’re saying there were Disney films before this?

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

@@robotwrench I think I was using a list of all the animated shorts on Wikipedia.

[@mikela1341]

Did Walt Disney do cartoons before the Alice comedies?

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

@@mikela1341 I did say "Warner Bros." and Disney

[@mikela1341]

@@EmpyreanLightASMR oh. I didn't read the warner brothers part.

[@utubrGaming]

If someone told this clean-shaven cartoonist that one day, he'd lay the foundations of one of the most powerful entertainment empires in the world...

[@welisonsantos8414]

What a genius Disney was, always ahead his time!!

[@thesultrystrangerdanger6824]

Don't follow that link not a link

[@arthowardatnight]

Notice at the beginning Walt is drawing something that looks like Snoopy's dog house! And then Alice follows the lead of a little grey rabbit with a white belly and white gloves that looks like a baby Bugs. Not to mention the little mouse poking the cat. EVERYTHING began with this cartoon!

[@doppelbanger5797]

His earlier laugh o gramms had much of the same content, it must have been very exciting to work on these animations as it was in its infancy

[@wineliafernandez4020]

Art Howard that’s tom and jerry hehe hehe

[@vivir339]

Art Howard j

[@rowellcabardo1517]

Art Howard Szscdzlibnb. , . Mm bhkknm Gym.

[@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory]

Thomas The Tank Engine for the anthropomorphic train.

[@Tsumami__]

Geez Walt was pretty damn good looking when he was young. I always have that image of him as a kindly older grandfatherish sort of man from all the 1960s footage from the parks and the show, but he was quite attractive in 23, I’ll tell ya what 😂🤭

[@thesultrystrangerdanger6824]

Oh boy he wasn't handsome young man but I also think he harmed that child bigtime

[@thesultrystrangerdanger6824]

If I would have caught him back then I would have buried him in the shallow grave if I know what I know now about him.... Look at this video evidence dude was one hundred percent Satan scum

[@bombaybeach208]

@@thesultrystrangerdanger6824 Oh please. Disney did not "harm" Virginia Davis. In fact, I had the honor of meeting her when she was in her 80's and worked at Disney for over five years. Please stop poisoning this with your lies.

[@BradyTheAlien]

You got to meet the actress for this? That’s really cool! What was she like?

[@mike_slav0477]

And here we are today!

[@jettcarlburg356]

16:00 Hugh Harman and Rudolph Ising were 2 of the founders of Warner Bros animation. After Disney, they worked in the early days with Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones and Tex Avery before leaving WB and forming their own production company.

[@planetX15]

What was their own production company called?

[@No-hd4cg]

Harman and Ising never hired Jones nor Avery to Warner Bros Jones joined when Schlesinger was making his own studio and Avery joined 2 years after the duo left WB

[@No-hd4cg]

@@planetX15 Harman-Ising (or at least people called it Harman and Ising)

[@mariahwhatley8153]

Happy 100th Anniversary!

[@maslover12]

Young Walt makes me so happy

[@bluesugar58]

That little girl, Virginia Davis, was so cute! I enjoyed watching this.

[@quakezero8968]

@Patrick Bateman not really

[@johntrifunov9597]

so weird not seeing Walt without his Mustache

[@outerspacefan]

It's not weird ☺️

[@carrotsandcucumbers8214]

He looks a bit handsome

[@robfriedrich2822]

The weird thing is to see, how Walt "loves" children....

[@paulohenriquetabosa]

know somethhing? MICKEY MOUSE WAS CREATED IN 1925 IN ALICE COMEDIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[@debratierney1805]

​@Rob Friedrich pretty creepy 😳 he was a free mason and a pedophile. But alot of people didn't know that. Just lately alot of people that work there at Disneyland were arrested for child trafficking. They have tunnels under there, and alot of children have gone missing there. People need to wake up and Not go there.

[@smeth2988]

I cant imagine how much work this was

[@levim24]

I just rewatched Over The Garden Wall a few days ago (one of my favorite cartoons), and I instantly recognized the reception committee animation at 4:51 which was referenced in episode 8 of the show. Awesome to see this was some of Pat McHale's inspiration

[@chewingonfoil]

just wrote a similar comment under an older upload of this. love all the little references in OTGW.. only discovering more of them with time - i think that''s a sign of the impressive amount of work put into the series (i mean, even greateramount than i've thought on a first watch)

[@JamesGrinstead]

Walt Disney’s 100 years of Legacy!

[@thesultrystrangerdanger6824]

Bra he seems kind of suspect to me 🧐😈

[@salomeheredia9885]

For 1923, this is one if the most incredible things on life I can imagine people seeing this with the family 😁😄🙌 I loved Alice's Dance, great And I wanna see the funnies with her 😺

[@falchionofeternity433]

Is this Walt before he had his iconic mustache? O_O

[@mollylea2643]

Yep!

[@ginniekinz5401]

That’s amazing! So cool to see. I’m glad they made this video

[@nediljkadjugum1577]

Yes

[@robfriedrich2822]

And before they said to him "When you want not to scare parents, don't always touch little girls"

[@zachatck64]

@@robfriedrich2822 What are you talking about dude

[@ahmerhassan6160]

That girl is so lucky if I was her I would be so happy and excited

[@salomeheredia9885]

Oh yeahhhhy

[@vaness7461]

She is Happy and excited belive me xd Sorry mi bad inglish

[@JMK948]

This video: Ten years later This company: A hundred years later Happy 100th, Disney.

[@OmegaVideoGameGod]

[@thesultrystrangerdanger6824]

She died of mysterious causes... Shocking

[@thesultrystrangerdanger6824]

Walt was next level groomer 🤔

[@assasinluke3364]

Walt looked handsome

[@kaileymcclain2391]

This is more creative then Disney in 2024; reminder this was 100 years ago

[@Thomas_H._Smith]

Happy 97th birthday Alice's Wonderland, and Disney as a whole.

[@vaness7461]

....WAIT WHA-

[@Thomas_H._Smith]

@@vaness7461 On October 16th 1923 Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio released their first short film "Alice's Wonderland" and thus a legend was born.

[@Logan_Elkins]

7:57 the hype before the hype was invented

[@edgarbaldishol578]

Wow Disney knew What they were doing

[@ky-gp4sz]

It's not Disney it's LAUGH-O-GRAM FILMS. INC.

[@ravidwolff667]

it was walts first company

[@bughead5615]

95 Years since...

[@usermcskull4713]

I'm getting so many Over the Garden Wall vibes rn

[@salomeheredia9885]

2:23 I love this cat

[@vaness7461]

I love everyeone of this cartoon qwq Sorry mi bad inglish

[@aspiegirl_tay]

Even in the 20s, Walt Disney was the best of the best! 👍👍

[@gaminicyril]

0:54 such a beautiful and sweet girl.

[@TubTheGreat]

@electrowolf 525 thanks for pointing out

[@cpkudrongaming6100]

@electrowolf 525 *THAT WENT FROM 0-100 REAL QUICK!*

[@salomeheredia9885]

:"v

[@gaminicyril]

@electrowolf 525 i didn't ask to date with her. Such a beautiful and sweet girl because she was used to be years ago. So don't tell me about "she dead" i know and everyone knows! 😡

[@cosmicoutpost59]

Happy 100th anniversary Disney 🎉

[@mordredt02]

11:30 "I knew I shoulda taken that left toin at Albuquerque."

[@zdproductions3903]

Hah!

[@alexkotas7486]

Animators were Hugh Harman Rudolf"Rudy"Ising Ub Iwerks, and Carman Maxwell.

[@carlosfroggymay7279]

Is that Iwerks at center painting a canvas in the scene starting at 2:20? kzbin.info/www/bejne/qnqpdnyMoL6GpNk

[@carlosfroggymay7279]

Are the others identified?

[@mrchizzleflint6106]

Yes, that's him.

[@mrchizzleflint6106]

Just like this person says, they are Harman, Ising and Maxwell. The elder man is probably Otto Walliman.

[@aaronwoo6694]

This Walter Elias fellow isn't going to amount to anything with these whimsical funnies. What does he think he's gonna do, create the biggest entertainment company of our times?

[@randydevers2444]

I can't imagine how people in the past could make cartoons, even the results were that great, even though the world at that time was at war to greedily fight over their desires.

[@hydrakonic9289]

I actually came because of the movie

[@NAFIMG]

Oh my on 1923 walt still 22 yrs old

[@stevepaul6955]

I had the pleasure of meeting Virginia at a show out in Los Angeles some years ago. She was in her 80's and She signed a picture for me as She talked about working with a young Walt Disney.

[@AdamLovesSpongebob]

I Cant Believe Thats The First Disney Film in 99 Years Ago

[@hankmorrison269]

I think you mean 101 years ago lol

[@stephenholloway6893]

Now the entire Alice Comedies shorts are in the public domain.

[@422rds]

Walt looks so young without his moustache.

[@ky-gp4sz]

"Funnies"

[@thisisahumanlol8255]

Which is wat i will call animation from now on

[@aylafowlkes5416]

I love this !! I wish I could have met Mr. Disney

[@Abbimation.]

Not gonna lie, but the animation cycles look like the ones from Disney mock up later in the 90s and 2000s. But it was good for 1923, I’ll planned my first animated short in 2023, exactly 100 years after this one.

[@Darkbotsz5]

1975-1980.

[@PenaltyKillah]

9:17 Classic Disney gag right there, along with other gags like falling off a cliff without the laws of psychics

[@FreeSpiritPaulette]

Honestly, everybody always talking about how Oswald the lucky rabbit was Walt Disney’s first creation but NO. This is where it’s at. Edit: also, all the people in this are long dead.

[@Sonikkthehedgehog]

Happy 101 Anniversary to Alices Wonderland.

[@Jinaria101]

Is this available on Disney + cause it would be a shame if it wasn’t I mean this right here is what started it all

[@joanienoeldechen4133]

I love this...Walt Disney in a movie.

[@thesultrystrangerdanger6824]

He hurt the kid

[@NelsonStJames]

Wanted to see this after reading the Walt Disney biography. Of course KZbin didn't let me down.

[@salomeheredia9885]

👍

[@KendrickHarrisKenfinity]

Our curious Alice and rambious animals creating artists are so much fun to finally watch.🎯👧🏼🐭🐈‍⬛🐻🦁🏠✏🎥🌅 Stay safe everyone!

[@squinel9872]

What the hell happened? Back in the day we had this staggeringly beautiful art style and humor! Adults, teenagers, kids and elders alike would gather up outside of theaters to buy tickets to watch this art! And now that we have better technology to do this, we somehow screw up. I'm guessing it's that mentality of "Cartoons are for kids" and "If it's colorful and moves, kids will LOVE it". We HAVE to do something! At least we have the modern mickey mouse shorts. I love those. THAT is what animation should've become. Better art, better, sound, better quality, upgrades to classics! Nowadays some cartoons aren't that good. Don't get me wrong, there are certain cartoons that I LOVE, like regular show, Steven universe, Star vs the F.O.E. ect. I just wish they kept making these old-styled cartoons...

[@planetX15]

Do you like The Simpsons or Family Guy?

[@salomeheredia9885]

@@planetX15 I see The Simpsons, so funny 😂 but the chapters of their age of.. Gold

[@salomeheredia9885]

And yeah, why is this not on TV anymore? And I love Cartoon Network and Tooncast so cool and funny 🙌👏

[@ma.2089]

What happened was Hana barabara started making cheap animation targeted mostly at kids, usually with a slight educational purpose. They got so big that the assumption began animation was only for kids even tho Hana Barbara was just creating animations w/ that demographic even tho there existed animation w/o that aim. There’s still good cartoons tho. U just gotta look harder

[@ma.2089]

Also if u like old style, watch Over the garden wall

[@Quinhala11]

It's so weird Disney never acknowledges this, outside of still using Pete

[@PowerRangerfan]

ah. A sign of things to come for Disney

[@holdontill_m4y]

I’d rather watch these then the stuff we got today tbh

[@aniretakc]

was doing research on animation and spent forever trying to find this lol

[@dguy0386]

It's even more enjoyable when you remember that the television wasn't invented yet so seeing cartoons in your house like alice was a thing of fiction

[@austinklein1172]

This cartoon makes me ☺

[@bekkahw3188]

I only looked this up because I watched the movie Walt before Disney

[@salomeheredia9885]

Movie? Where did u see it

[@MeenaDevi-rl8py]

great walt disney

[@ChandlerFostersmasherpotato]

100 years later

[@godzillapark9075]

The first Disney cartoon

[@darthchrejder4172]

No its not,first disney cartoons came out in 1920

[@No-hd4cg]

@@darthchrejder4172 the first one actually came out in 1921 and the first released was from the following year

[@gerardoignaciogarciarivera1979]

Pretty Awesome

[@joelori]

Amazing to see how animation has evolved from this all the way to South Park in almost 100 years. ;-)

[@OmegaVideoGameGod]

@Joel Silverwatch and 100 years that they killed Kenny. XD "OMG They killed Kenny, you bastard!!!!!"

[@HockeyDudeJames]

Considering The wizard of oz is 16 years later. Judy Garland was not even born yet. This is pretty astonishing.

[@allisonescalante7353]

She was a year old while this was made so she was born in 1922

[@stephenholloway6893]

Plus there was previous adaptations of The Wizard of Oz before her version. Most notably two silent versions from 1910 and 25 respectively plus 3 follow ups of the 1910 version that Braum himself did in 1914.

[@stephenholloway6893]

If it wasn't for Margaret Winkler who gave Walt a chance, this probably would had been the end of Walt's animation career. Since Laugh O Gram Disney's company back then went bankrupt.

[@stephenholloway6893]

Expect Walt never really owned Oswald in the first place. The rights was with the distributor not necessarily the studio that made the short. Walt was working for Mintz, who in turn struck the deal with Universal. Besides, back then Walt was kinda of an unknown in the animation business despite the Alice shorts. Yes Mintz married into the animation business, but overall, his company going back to Margaret was more successful companies to Walt by the time 1928 came in.

[@tradeofalljacks4358]

100 years later, still impressive.

[@RalphDratman]

Many of the animal characters in this animation are very similar to animals I have seen in Betty Boop cartoons. Was there some movement of artists back and forth between Disney and Fleischer?

[@planetX15]

Was there some tension between Disney and Fleischer?

[@RalphDratman]

@@planetX15 They were competitors in the animated film market. That is all I know.

[@코르타데리아셀로아나]

@@planetX15 They're Both Rivals

[@Kibaoftheleaves]

Is the audio from the official soundtrack? This was the era of silent films, which is kind of fascinating~

[@422rds]

This is literally the OG before the OG! How is it not on Disney+?

[@vaness7461]

Well... Maybe Disney don't want other peoplr know the truth Sorry mi bad inglish

[@stephenholloway6893]

Plus because it's in the public domain they probably couldn't really profit from it anyway.

[@HarperKidsChannel]

I’m here for the 100th anniversary, also I think this is the first thing Disney ever made

[@stephenholloway6893]

Kinda. While this short did lead to the creation of the Disney studio, he had made short films prior to this one. In fact Laugh O Grams the studio Walt was at during this period went bankrupt while making the short.

[@utubrGaming]

Happy birthday to the house of the mouse, that all began with a rabbit.

[@ng1048]

Is the man here Walt?

[@RedTango]

Yes

[@ravidwolff667]

yes

[@funminer8453]

NO ITS PETER PAN

[@austinklein1172]

FunMiner8 Peter Pan was Bobby Driscoll.

[@sebastianathiememorial520]

Yes

[@Mangost8en]

Was she really 5 years old at the time? She looks like she was 10.

[@Jeff98177]

She was born December 31, 1918 and died of natural causes in August 2009, so she was 4. How could she be as old as 10? She was tiny.

[@devizine7845]

Genius it is, but it should be noted Max Fleischer invented the Rotoscope and began putting cartoon characters into a real world scenes with his "out of the inkwell" series, some years before this. Walt just turned it around so the real person was put into a cartoon world.

[@Darkbotsz5]

70s and 80s rock animation principal That 2 main decades I like a lot is 2 decades.

[@queenjillian3995]

That was actually Walt Disney’s idea to make that silent film until he did the the animated version of Walt Disney’s alice in wonderland

[@julieannobrien4552]

I need to see this after watching Walt before Mickey

[@vaness7461]

Same qwq

[@LandondeeL]

Why apologize for the subtitles? That was the industry standard back then.

[@alexbarker6122]

Is this the earliest example of green screen??

[@Jeff98177]

Virginia says on imdb that they draped a white sheet up behind her and on the floor in front of her, she did what she was supposed to do, and they added the animation later. VERY impressive and innovative for 1923.

[@salomeheredia9885]

@@Jeff98177 Exactly, impresive.. like: Wow, this must be new! And I loved this chapter

[@pancakeyumyum2323]

Kinda sad that everyone in this film is dead now.

[@jan-jans143]

i just finished watching. walt before mickey. goodsht

[@FyFanNollan]

I don't know but I have a feeling that Mickey is in this. I can't get it out of my shitty mind after that day when someone told me that he was there

[@slevemcdichael5274]

Wait, Ub Iwerk’s name is spelled “Ubb Iwwerks?”

[@justbilly.2000]

2:21 PROTO-PROTO-PROTOTYPE OF MICKEY MOUSE

[@itsjoshmikael2782]

top 1 earliest disney movies

[@josediaz1966]

better than the live action one we have now

[@thesultrystrangerdanger6824]

Walt was a child predator

[@코르타데리아셀로아나]

Good Video. And Its Good Classic Cartoon

[@timoraslan]

0:59

[@zein-hr3sv]

Why she do that with her hands

[@Renamoose]

@@zein-hr3sv Curtsey

[@anonymous....]

I am here after 100 years

[@ilarymedri9653]

3:34 might be a WWE-O-Grams...XDDDDDDDDDDD