The afternoon on which Carroll tried to entertain the three young daughters of his Christ Church, Oxford, colleague Dean Liddell has since become almost as famous as the story itself. Many years later, Carroll and his unwitting muse, the year-old Alice, separately recorded their memories, and although they differed in some details they agreed on a broad outline of events. Wonderland came into existence as an adventure playground for the imagination. The truth may have been rather different.
But facts were less powerful than the tug of fiction, especially when it became clear that the Oxfordshire riverbank had been the scene of a modern creation myth, and soon the memories of everyone present had been gilded and polished until they shone. The shifting moods of real life were replaced by an afternoon of permanent sunshine. Retracing the boat trip today is like a journey back in time. The first thing that strikes a modern passenger is how fit Carroll and his rowing partner Robinson Duckworth must have been.
It takes a pleasure boat at least 30 minutes to putter upriver to Godstow, sliding through water that is as green as turtle soup, and rowing against the current can take two hours or more. The first part of the journey is visibly hemmed in by modern life, thanks to a concrete ribbon of embankments and an architectural patchwork of housing developments, but soon the river returns to a more unchanging landscape.
Willows bend overhead; rabbits lollop comically in the undergrowth; occasionally there is the metallic flash of a kingfisher.
A few hundred yards beyond Osney Lock, the river passes by Port Meadow, a bleakly beautiful expanse of grassland where cattle and horses have grazed for centuries. A few distant church towers peep over the treetops, but otherwise it is easy to feel geographically and historically dislocated from the rest of Oxford.
After the party reached Godstow, the Liddell girls demanded a story, and in drawing inspiration from his surroundings Carroll could have chosen from many different narrative scenarios.
The endless tea party is like a set of variations on another childhood drawing, this one showing a man staring fixedly at a clock — the joke being that a clock in a picture always looks as if it has stopped. By , few literary environments were as crowded as the underground. Even without these literary associations, the underworld was a place to which the Victorians increasingly enjoyed making mental excursions. It is only her older sister, on the final page of the story, who thinks of it as Wonderland.
Perhaps the book she is reading on the riverbank is supposed to be one of the earlier attempts to locate this enchanted country. If so, she would have had a small library of examples to choose from. It was an idea firmly rooted in Romanticism. The same idea also attracted English and American authors. If Carroll had a specific source in mind, however, it was probably a poem published by FT Palgrave in his collection Idyls and Songs.
Alice needs to do her homework but she ends up in televisionland where she meets characters from Alice in Wonderland and some Hanna-Barbera cartoons.
A young girl named Alice has many zany adventures with her friends in a magical world on the other side of her looking glass. Not Rated min Adventure, Drama, Fantasy. Everything you know about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is about to be turned upside down in this modern-day mini-series. Votes: 9, R 87 min Adventure, Drama, Fantasy. Votes: 3, One of the most well-known stories begins one golden summer afternoon.
Alice is sitting on a riverbank with her sister when a fully-dressed, talking rabbit runs past her. She follows the This is the first movie version of the famous story. Alice dozes in a garden, awakened by a dithering white rabbit in waistcoat with pocket watch. She follows him down a hole and finds herself in a hall of many doors. Directors: Cecil M.
Hepworth , Blair , Geoffrey Faithfull. A young girl named Alice falls down a rabbit-hole and wanders into the strange world of Wonderland. Director: Edwin S. A contemporary remake of Lewis Carroll's classic "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", Alice finds herself bored and fed up with the world around her. When she is offered the chance to know Sign In. Copy from this list Export Report this list.
Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. Prime Video Rent or Buy 8. IMDb user rating average 1 1. Release year or range to ». Error: please try again. McLeod interpretation that boasted script contributions by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and William Cameron Menzies. The prospect of combining live and animated characters proved too daunting, however, and Disney turned to Snow White for his debut feature.
Pipped to a live-action hybrid by Dallas Bower in , Disney decided to stick with the graphic approach even though Ginger Rogers was keen to play Alice and was promptly savaged by contemporary critics who dubbed it his unlucky 13th feature.
But, with Kathryn Beaumont voicing the title role, this spiritedly anarchic variation which gave the world the wonderful concept of unbirthdays finally found its audience in the psychedelic 60s and it has been a head-tripping cult favourite ever since.
He also invested the action with a somnambulant melancholy that made adulthood seem forbidding. Squarely aimed at grown-ups, this was commissioned by the BBC as a centenary celebration. Produced by Bill Osco of Flesh Gordon fame, this musical reimagining is more panto than porno. Former Playboy playmate Kristine De Bell plays a chaste librarian who is debating how far to go with her lusty mechanic boyfriend when the White Rabbit leads her through a looking glass into an enchanted realm in which rocks vibrate when you sit on them, Tweedledum and Tweedledee are incestuous siblings and the climactic trial descends into an orgy.
Scripted by Dennis Potter and directed by Gavin Millar , this is a provocative speculation on the psychological effect that Alice in Wonderland had on the young girl for whom it was written. Stopping short of sinister accusation, this is a poignant study of devotion, cruelty, suppression and acceptance, with the fantastical characters produced by the Jim Henson Creature Shop helping reinforce the unsettling tone.
Having previously visited Carroll in Jabberwocky , Czech animator Jan Svankmajer made his feature bow with this distinctive adaptation, which combines live action, puppetry and stop-motion animation. Made for children. Alice follows it through a desk drawer and her subsequent adventures are often dictated by the contents of the cabinet of curiosities she finds in a land that is more often wondrous than wonderful. Disney returned to Wonderland in cahoots with director Tim Burton and writer Linda Woolverton for a fantasy that draws incidents from both books in order to show how the 19 year-old Alice Mia Wasikowska slays the Jabberwocky to restore the White Queen Anne Hathaway to the throne usurped by her red rival Helena Bonham Carter.
A sequel produced by Burton and directed by James Bobin is due for release in Back to the top. Archive content sales and licensing. BFI book releases and trade sales. BFI Southbank purchases.
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