Reviews on movie Alice in Wonderland (3)

First of all, this is not a film, even a short film, but a set of scenes (unfortunately not very well preserved). But the scenes are connected, go in order and the story of Carroll can be traced through them.
It is amazing how carefully the creators approached the original, did not miss anything! Even there is a huge (compared to the reduced Alice) live dog, which in most film adaptations is absent. Costumes, scenery, special effects (to the extent of the then technical capabilities) - everything is at its height. And what a well-coordinated extra!

Not only is the film interesting, but what is happening to it now. Ironically, it’s better known than later releases, technically more advanced and better preserved adaptations. On YouTube, a decent number of enthusiasts record music for him (or imposes someone else's) - from hard industrial to soft ambient. It completely changes perception! Personally, I liked the version with the experimental soundtrack Remo De Vico, a real cripple!

One of the most amazing paintings I have ever seen. The film that opened the way that after it will pass more than once, the film that has already changed its hundred years, returning to the shelves of cinema history after a long period of forgetting. Already these facts can attract both fans of Alice in Wonderland, and those who want to join the legacy of the first decades of art that made the images come into motion.
The very case when the plot fades into the background, he is well-known enough not to explain what will happen to the girl Alice, who chased the rabbit, so the absence of the lost 4 minutes of the tape does not make the viewer lose the thread of what is happening. In general, it is a great luck that despite all the instability of the last century with its destructive wars, destroying real monuments of art, this fruit of the works of pioneers of cinema is available to us. Let it be a quality that seems so unusual that it evokes thoughts of some mystic. More important is the details you want to think about.

Personally, I liked the version with modern, rather gloomy music: it conveyed exactly what I wanted to see. Mystery, the atmosphere of antiquity, which is incredibly far away, and now we have after it such miraculously extant evidence. A look from the past that was different. It is worth remembering that the author of the book, Lewis Carroll, died just five years before the first adaptation of his famous Alice. It would be interesting to know what his reaction to this movie would be if he saw it. Alice, the Cheshire Cat, the Countess, the Queen and many of his other heroes came to life to retell an ageless story.
I think that among the many incarnations of this book, the film of 1903 should have its own special place. At least because all the people appearing in it, lived in time not so far from the same Alice Liddell.
10 out of 10

The film is directed by Cecil M. Hepworth and Percy Stowe based on Lewis Carroll’s fairy tale Alice in Wonderland.
The very first of the films about Alice, silent and black and white was shot in the distant 1903.
To say that the film was made well is to say nothing. Of all the Alice movies I've seen, this is the one. This is the kind of Wonderland and Alice I imagined.
Note that the sketches of the film served as original illustrations for the book, John Tenniel. The film was directed by Cecil M. Hepworth, his wife, and staff at Hepworth. Alice was played by the studio secretary, May Clark. Filmmaking at the time was a little different than it is today. There were only two directors at Hepworth Studios at the time, both in the film, one making 116 films, the other 292 films, despite having lived only 40 years. And there were no professional actors, because all their own were involved, even the director’s dog played in the film. And this movie was, at that time, was, as they say, tricky. Despite the fact that only 8 of the 12 minutes survived and in terrible quality, what you see makes an indelible impression, it is necessary to familiarize yourself with the fairy tale of Lewis Carroll. I mean, some of the book is still missing, and for the full picture does not hurt, and so for the general development.
So here's the movie. We see Alice and Rabbit crawling into a big hole, / sorry, it's a hole / then do not fall down, and go as if on an underground passage. Then the scene with mushrooms, Alice then increases, then decreases, against the background of the door and window. And so on. Tea party. Meet the Cheshire Cat, the real cat, imagine.
The poor quality of the film works on the picture, plus well-chosen music, /the original was without musical accompaniment! /...
Personally, after the first viewing, I immediately went to the second circle, she is fascinated by God, they were able to shoot at the beginning of the century. Respect for the authors.

And I thought, this is how you watch a movie, and you know, time flies, and we stay the same. We are the descendants of those who lived before us. And those who will live after us will be the same. Trusting and kind, and will also believe in miracles.
And the film about Alice will also be relevant, and each generation will shoot their Alice, because we all have something to say about miracles.
But this little eight-minute movie is not lost in the turbulent passage of time. It won't get lost.