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Alice Comedies
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The Alice Comedies was a series of short cartoons made by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks during The Silent Age of Animation. It was the successor to their failed Newman Laugh-O-Grams series, and a precursor to their Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series. The cartoons feature Alice, a live action girl, interacting with an animated world. Near the beginning, the shorts would start with something happening to Alice in the real world after which she falls asleep or gets knocked out. She then enters an animated dream world where she interacts with Julius the Cat and a host of other Funny Animals. Hi-jinx Ensue. Later installments dropped the real world Framing Device and took place entirely in the cartoon world.The cartoons themselves had little in the way of plot or continuity, and were mainly just for showing off the animation.Compare Max and Dave Fleischer's Out of the Inkwell, another live action/animation blending cartoon that was the inspiration for this series. | |
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Creator Cameo | |
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Creator Cameo: Walt himself appears in the first short. | |
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Framing Device | |
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Framing Device: The world is a dream world Alice sees when unconscious. | |
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Public Domain Animation | |
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Public Domain Animation: As of 2023, all the shorts in this series are now in the public domain in the United States. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Captain Ersatz: Julius is nothing more than Felix moonlighting in a Disney cartoon. Pat Sullivan wanted him in. Or rather, Charlies Mintz wanted Julius in, which pissed off Pat Sullivan enough to cancel his distribution contract with Mintz. | |
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Appendage Assimilation | |
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Appendage Assimilation: The way characters will recover from their Amusing Injuries. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: Meta-example; given these were some of the earliest cartoons he made, the Alice Comedies are quite different in tone and execution from the later shorts and films Disney would become recognized for. | |
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Bag of Kidnapping | |
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Bag of Kidnapping: Alice is kidnapped this way a couple of times, once from the character that would become Mickey's arch nemesis Pete. | |
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Cats Are Mean | |
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Cats Are Mean: Julius is an aversion, which may disprove the oft-repeated rumor that Walt Disney inherently disliked cats. Pegleg Pete first appears in this series, but won't officially become a cat until Mickey Mouse comes along (here, he's portrayed as a nondescript bearlike creature). Julius is depicted as an abusive laborer in "Alice's Egg Plant". | |
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Animal Stereotypes | |
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Animal Stereotypes: Alice's Egg Plant. An evil fighting rooster from a rival farm is a... Bolshevik?! He leads Alice's chickens to stop laying eggs and go on strike for more pay. | |
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Token Minority | |
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Token Minority: In the real world, one of the friends in Alice's gang is black. To add to this, he's a member of their KKK club (KKK stands for Sekret Klues of the Kook Klakz). | |
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Like Brother and Sister | |
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Weirdly enough, that subtext was dubbed in later during the 1930s soundtracked reissues. It's more of a Brother-Sister dynamic. Not entirely true—the early release 'Alice and the Three Bears' ends with the two sharing several romantic, sloppy mouth-to-mouth kisses, with Julius licking his lips after the first kiss before going in for another. Later cartoons didn't show the same intimacy, but the later dubbing crew clearly got the idea from the original shorts. | |
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Amusing Injuries | |
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Amusing Injuries: Including severed limbs and decapitation. | |
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Interspecies Romance | |
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Interspecies Romance: Between Alice and Julius. Weirdly enough, that subtext was dubbed in later during the 1930s soundtracked reissues. It's more of a Brother-Sister dynamic. Not entirely true—the early release 'Alice and the Three Bears' ends with the two sharing several romantic, sloppy mouth-to-mouth kisses, with Julius licking his lips after the first kiss before going in for another. Later cartoons didn't show the same intimacy, but the later dubbing crew clearly got the idea from the original shorts. | |
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Scooby-Dooby Doors | |
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Scooby-Dooby Doors: Done with rocks in Alice in the Wooly West. | |
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Medium Awareness | |
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Medium Awareness: Characters are aware they are made of ink and take advantage of the fact. | |
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Didn't Think This Through | |
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Didn't Think This Through: 'Alice's Tin Pony'. Julius, slapping a sign that reads "This car is carrying a big payroll" onto the train? That's not helping. | |
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Battle Discretion Shot | |
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Battle Discretion Shot: Often preferred over the Big Ball of Violence. | |
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Cliffhanger | |
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Cliffhanger: The version of Alice's Wonderland included with the DVD and Blu-Ray editions of Alice in Wonderland ends with Alice falling into a hole, since the people compiling the bonus features utilized a print that lacked the ending. | |
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Detachment Combat | |
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Detachment Combat: Julius' tail can detach and change itself into any tool he might need. | |
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Breakout Character | |
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Breakout Character: Pete made his debut in this series about two years after it began, and continued to make appearances in Classic Disney Shorts afterwards. | |
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New Job as the Plot Demands | |
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New Job as the Plot Demands: Near the end of the series, Alice would have a new job every episode; from soldier to whaler to farmer. | |
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Would Hit a Girl | |
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Would Hit a Girl: In "Alice's Tin Pony," Pete punches a mouse girl who was trying to flirt with him. | |
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