What if StudioCanal is founded in 1937?/The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland

The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 American animated musical fantasy-adventure film produced by Stanley Carls Productions and based on the Alice books by Lewis Carroll. The film premiered in Los Angeles on September 14, 1951, and in US on October 26, 1951 by StudioCanal. The film features the voices of Kathryn Beaumont as Alice, Sterling Holloway as the Cheshire Cat, Verna Felton as the Queen of Hearts, and Ed Wynn as the Mad Hatter. Stanley Carls first attempted unsuccessfully to adapt Alice into an animated feature film during the 1930s. However, he finally revived the idea in the 1940s. The film was originally intended to be a live-action/animated film; however, Carls decided  to make it an all-animated feature in 1946. The film was considered a flop on its initial release, leading to Stanley Carls showing it on television as one of the first episodes of his TV series Carlsland. It proved to be very successful on television, especially during the psychedelic era. It was eventually re-released in theaters which proved to be massively successful. The film became even more successful through merchandising and subsequent home video releases. The theme song of the same name has since become a jazz standard. While the film was critically panned on its initial release, it has since been regarded as one of Carls's greatest animated classics, notably one of the biggest cult classics in the animation medium, as well as one of the best film adaptations of Alice.

Plot
While her sister reads, a very bored Alice expresses her want of adventure, leading her to a riverbank. There, Alice spots a White Rabbit in a waistcoat passing by, exclaiming that he is "late for a very important date". She gives chase, following him into a large rabbit hole. She sees him leave through a tiny door, whose talking knob advises her to shrink to an appropriate height by drinking from a bottle marked "Drink Me". She does so and floats out through the keyhole in a sea of her own tears, which she cried after eating a biscuit marked "Eat Me", which caused her to grow very large. As she continues to follow the Rabbit, she meets numerous characters, including Tweedledum and Tweedledee, who recount the tale of "The Walrus and the Carpenter".

Alice tracks the Rabbit to his house; he sends her to retrieve his gloves after mistaking her for his housemaid. While searching for them, she eats another cookie marked "Eat Me" from his cookie canister and grows large again, getting stuck in the house. Thinking she is a monster, he brings the Dodo over to help him get rid of her. When the Dodo decides to burn the house down, Alice escapes by eating a carrot from the Rabbit's garden, which causes her to shrink to three inches tall, and continues following him. Along the way, she meets a garden of talking flowers who initially welcome her with a song, but then mistake her for a weed and order her to leave, followed by a Caterpillar, who becomes enraged after she tells him she is distressed at her current height, as he is the same height, and turns into a butterfly. Before leaving, he advises her to eat a piece of his mushroom to alter her size. She does so and manages to return to her original height, and continues following the Rabbit.

In the woods, Alice meets the Cheshire Cat, who advises her to visit the Mad Hatter or the March Hare to find out where the Rabbit is. She encounters both, along with the Dormouse, at the Hare's house having a mad tea party and celebrating their "unbirthday". They celebrate her unbirthday too, but she becomes frustrated with being interrupted every time she tries to speak. As she is about to leave, the Rabbit appears, continuing to exclaim that he is late; the Hatter examines his pocket watch and says it is "two days slow", and attempts to "fix" it by filling it with food and tea but ends up having to destroy it after it goes "mad". The Rabbit laments that his watch was an "unbirthday present", and the Hatter and Hare sing "The Unbirthday Song" to him before throwing him back into the woods. Fed up with the nonsense, Alice decides to go home, but her surroundings have completely changed and she gets lost. Fearing she is lost forever, she sits on a rock sobbing.

The Cheshire Cat reappears and advises Alice to ask the Queen of Hearts for directions home, showing her a "shortcut" to the King and tyrannical Queen's castle. The Queen orders the beheading of a trio of playing card gardeners who mistakenly planted white roses instead of red ones (but paint them to make them look red), and invites (or rather forces) Alice to play against her in a croquet match, in which live flamingos, card guards and hedgehogs are used as equipment. The animals and card guards rig the game in favor of the Queen. The Cat appears again and plays a trick on the Queen, causing her to fall over. The Cat disappears in time to make it look like Alice was the prankster, but before the Queen can order her execution, the King suggests they have a trial.

At Alice's trial, the Mad Hatter, March Hare and Dormouse are called to the stand as witnesses, briefly celebrating the Queen's unbirthday and giving her a headpiece as a present, which turns into the Cat. Chaos ensues when the Dormouse, frightened when Alice points out the Cat, runs around the courtroom. As the Queen orders Alice's execution, Alice eats the pieces of the Caterpillar's mushroom she saved and grows large again. The King and Queen order her to leave the courthouse, but she refuses and insults the Queen. As she does so, she returns to her normal size, and the Queen orders her execution. Alice flees, and the Queen, King, card guards and other characters give chase. When she reaches the small door she encountered at the beginning of the film, he shows her that she is actually already outside, asleep. She yells at herself to wake up; she does thanks to her sister, and they leave the riverbank to go home for tea.

Voice Cast

 * Kathryn Beaumont as Alice
 * Ed Wynn as Mad Hatter
 * Richard Haydn as Caterpillar
 * Sterling Holloway as Cheshire Cat
 * Verna Felton as Queen of Hearts
 * Pat O'Malley as Tweedle Dee/Tweedle Dum/Walrus/Carpenter/Mother Oyster
 * Bill Thompson as White Rabbit/The Dodo
 * Heather Angel as Alice's Sister
 * Joseph Kearns as Doorknob
 * Bill Justice as Bill the Lizard/Card Painter
 * Queenie Leonard as A Bird in the Tree/Snooty Flower
 * Xavier Atencio as King of Hearts
 * Doris Lloyd as The Rose
 * James MacDonald as Dormouse/Flamingos
 * The Mellomen (Thurl Ravenscroft, Bill Lee, Max Smith, and Bob Hamlin) as Card Painters
 * Don Barclay as Other Cards
 * Lucille Bliss as Sunflower and Tulip
 * Daws Butler as The Flamingos
 * Tommy Luske as Young Pansy
 * Marni Nixon as The Singing Flowers
 * Norma Zimmer as The White Rose
 * Stanley Carls as Additional Voices

Credits

 * A Republic Release
 * Stanley Carls presents
 * "The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland"
 * Color by Technicolor
 * Copyright MCMLI Stanley Carls Productions, Inc.
 * All Rights Reserved
 * Based on the Book "Alice in Wonderland" by: Lewis Carroll
 * Screen Play: Aldous Huxley
 * Story: Winston Hibler, Ted Sears, Bill Peet, Erdman Penner, Joe Rinaldi, Milt Banta, Bill Cottrell, Dick Kelsey, Joe Grant, Dick Huemer, Del Connell, Tom Oreb, Homer Brightman
 * Musical Score: Oliver Wallace, Paul J. Smith
 * Musical Direction: Leigh Harline
 * Orchestrations: Paul J. Smith, Edward Plumb, Milt Franklyn, Joseph Dubin
 * Vocal Arrangements: Jud Conlon
 * Atmospheric Music Created and Conducted by: Leigh Harline
 * Voices: Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn, Sterling Holloway, Verna Felton, Pat O'Malley, Bill Thompson, Heather Angel, Joseph Kearns, Bill Justice, Queenie Leonard, Xavier Atencio, Doris Lloyd, James MacDonald, The Mellomen, Don Barclay, Stanley Carls
 * Character Layout: Mac Stewart, Tom Codrick, Charles Philippi, A. Kendall O'Connor, Hugh Hennesy, Don Griffith, Thor Putnam, Lance Nolley, Bruce Bushman, Ken Anderson, Ed Levitt
 * Character Color and Styling: Mary Blair, John Hench, Claude Coats, Ken Anderson, Don Da Gradi
 * Backgrounds: Ralph Hulett, Ray Huffine, Art Riley, Thelma Witmer, Al Dempster, Dick Anthony, Eyvind Earle, Brice Mack, Art Landy, Herbert Ryman, Frank Armitage, Paul Julian, Richard H. Thomas
 * Directing Animators: Milt Kahl, Ward Kimball, Frank Thomas, Eric larson, John Lounsbery, Ollie Johnston, Wolfgang Reitherman, Marc Davis, Les Clark, Norm Ferguson
 * Animators: Hal King, Don Lusk, Judge Whitaker, Cliff Nordberg, Hal Ambro, Harvey Toombs, Bill Justice, Fred Moore, Phil Duncan, Marvin Woodward, Bob Carlson, Hugh Fraser, Charles Nichols, Al Coe, George Kreisl, Henry Tanous, Julius Svendsen, Eric Cleworth, Clair Weeks, Morey Reden, Ken O'Brien, Emery Hawkins, Grant Simmons, Alex Ignatiev, Milt Neil, Kenneth Muse, Jerry Hathcock, Peter Burness, Irven Spence, Jack Boyd, Al Bertino
 * Assistant Animators: Retta Davidson, Chuck Downs, Ken Southworth, Ken Walker
 * Inbetweeners: Milicent Patrick, Jack Dunham, Blaine Gibson
 * Effects Animators: Josh Meador, George Rowley, Dan Macmanus, Blaine Gibson
 * Animation Checker: Buf Nerbovig
 * Inking and Painting: Eve Fletcher, Jeanne Lee Keil, Carmen Sanderson, Val Vreeland, Betty Stark, Beryl Kemper
 * Camera Operators: Mickey Batchelder, Ken Moore, Max Morgan
 * Special Processes: Ub Iwerks
 * Production Supervision: Ben Sharpsteen, Ken Peterson
 * Sound Director: C.O. Slyfield
 * Sound Recording: Robert O. Cook, Harold J. Steck
 * Film Editor: Lloyd Richardson
 * Music Editor: Al Teeter
 * Assistant Directors: Mike Holoboff, Rusty Jones, Lloyd Richardson, Ted Sebern, Albert R. Broccoli
 * Songs by: Oliver Wallace, Bob Hilliard, Sammy Fain, Don Raye, Gene De Paul, Mack David, Jerry Livingston, Al Hoffman, Ned Washington, Ted Sears, Leigh Harline, Erdman Penner, Larry Morey
 * Approved MPAA Certificate No. 15112
 * I.A.T.S.E.
 * Cartoonists
 * RCA Sound System
 * Associate Producer: Erdman Penner
 * Executive Producer: Stanley Carls
 * Directed by: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson
 * The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland
 * THE END
 * A Stanley Carls Production
 * Made in Hollywood, U.S.A. by Stanley Carls Productions, Inc.