YT: The first-ever film version of Lewis Carroll's tale has recently been restored by the BFI National Archive from severely damaged materials. Made just 37 years after Lewis Carroll wrote his novel and eight years after the birth of cinema, the adaptation was directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow, and was based on Sir John Tenniel's original illustrations. In an act that was to echo more than 100 years later, Hepworth cast his wife as the Red Queen, and he himself appears as the Frog Footman. Even the Cheshire cat is played by a family pet. With a running time of just 12 minutes (8 of which survive), Alice in Wonderland was the longest film produced in England at that time. Film archivists have been able to restore the film's original colours for the first time in over 100 years.
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antsays...*music *british
siftbotsays...Adding video to channels (British, Music) - requested by ant.
choggiesays...Now you know what it's like to live in an asylum on the island where cancer was created....Daaaiam! Alice is bigger than I'd imagined her-
Fusionautsays...*quality
At first I thought it was a dupe of this dead video: http://www.videosift.com/video/Original-Alice-in-Wonderland-1903
but that video's music was "Debussy's 'Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Faun.'" Just thought I'd put that out there so no one invokes the * dupeof
siftbotsays...Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by Fusionaut.
arvanasays...^ That's interesting: the other one says it was made from the original negatives, and that there were no known prints. Whereas this one says it was made from a print and that the negatives were lost.
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