Confirmation please!ShyViolet wrote:It's kinda funny, as Walt didn't like Carroll's work all that much and basically transformed it and made it his own.
Throughout the (two) productions of Alice, Walt was stressing to make the film as close to Carroll's originals and wanted to do it justice. No-one at the studio could make it work, and they brought in elements of the second book, Through The Looking Glass (actually where Walt's film gets most of its inspiration from).
He became less involved in it out of frustration and left a lot of it to the animators. Though Walt is well known to have disliked the resulting film (in his words: "It lacked heart"), he still liked the source and was disappointed that they couldn't make a better film from it. Carroll's work is a continuing influence on Disney animation, right back from his first commercial success, Alice's Wonderland (1923).
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Vince's Devils Tribute in that playlist was pretty good though!
That DisneyLand 25th was good fun too!
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