I can’t wait for this Friday to come as we’re planning to go watch Tim Burton‘s new version of “Alice in wonderland” by Disney starring Johnny Depp as the mad hatter!! yay!
I’m so excited that I spent my night reading more about the novel and the old versions of the movie and came across this really really, i mean reeeeeaaally old Alice in wonderland movie by Cecil Hepworth that goes back to 1904 and it’s the first movie of Alice in wonderland and the longest British film that was produced at that time!
I also came across these vintage posters from later Alice in wonderland productions…
A 1931 black and white American film that’s considered the first sound version of the story, and therefore the first film to use Carroll’s original dialogue…
A French version from 1949…
And Walt Disney’s animated version from 1951 in which Alice sings the very famous “Golden Afternoon” song. You should try using that link on yooouuuyuuube.com to hear an electronical-experimental-version of that classic song (sometimes it doesn’t work so here‘s a low quality version of how it will sound like)…
A french version back from 1966…
A 1972 British musical…
A 1983 Japanese animated TV series which of course I watched in Arabic when i was little…
Another American version from 1985 (I don’t really like Alice in a red dress)…
Here’s the scene when she suddenly grows at the end of the movie and the Queen shouts her familiar “Off with her head!”…
A 1988 Australian animated version…
And finally, my favorite version of Alice in wonderland so far which i watched on Hallmark TV back in 1999…
In which Alice, the mock turtle and his friend the Gryphon sing one of my favorite songs “beautiful soup” which gets stuck in my head whenever I hear the word beautiful or soup! (fast forward to minute 4:40 to hear it), it reminds me of how me and my brother Ali used to try to hold “Beeeeeeeeauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuutifullllll” when singing it as long as Alice and the characters do. Can you do it? hehe
