Line #37 WesternAnimation/AliceComedies


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:It all began with a girl. And a cat.]]
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4	The ''Alice Comedies'' was a series of short cartoons made by Creator/WaltDisney and Creator/UbIwerks during UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfAnimation. It was the successor to their failed WesternAnimation/NewmanLaughOGrams series, and a precursor to their ''WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit'' 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 Animal}}s. [[HilarityEnsues Hi-jinx Ensue]]. Later installments dropped the real world FramingDevice and took place entirely in the cartoon world.
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6	The cartoons themselves had little in the way of plot or continuity, and were mainly just for showing off the animation.
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8	Compare Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer's ''WesternAnimation/OutOfTheInkwell'', another live action/animation blending cartoon that was the inspiration for this series.
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10	[[folder: Filmography]]
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12	!!1923
13	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tIFEIVkYSnw Alice's Wonderland]]
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15	!!1924
16	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tQkqlkhG5ZQ Alice's Day at Sea]] March 1, 1924
17	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=laho5lV6FSQ Alice's Spooky Adventure]] April 1, 1924
18	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qjlG41WXv7M Alice's Wild West Show]] May 1, 1924
19	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QH-GK_DgHsE Alice's Fishy Story]] June 1, 1924
20	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7d3aBMFEOns Alice and the Dog Catcher]] July 1, 1924
21	* Alice the Peacemaker August 1, 1924
22	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4ptLDuxbbVM Alice Gets in Dutch]] November 1, 1924
23	* Alice Hunting in Africa November 15, 1924
24	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tqc5yR2agrU Alice and the Three Bears]] December 1, 1924
25	* Alice the Piper December 15, 1924
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27	!!1925
28	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OTDdPfWuy60 Alice Cans the Cannibals]] January 1, 1925
29	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JEn6a_TjGC4 Alice the Toreador]] January 15, 1925
30	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xP0GT1Tg2q0 Alice Gets Stung]] February 1, 1925
31	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Oeey-aUOR_c Alice Solves the Puzzle]] February 15, 1925
32	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kXrniutJbyE Alice's Egg Plant]] May 30, 1925
33	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UtZQRdcvLeE Alice Loses Out]] June 15, 1925
34	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k-f9CmCoWr4 Alice Gets Stage Struck]] June 30, 1925
35	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BokhzrAYHAs Alice Wins the Derby]] July 15, 1925
36	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TCGqmkUm29k Alice Picks the Champ]] July 30, 1925
37	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y96mZUcUets Alice's Tin Pony]] August 15, 1925
38	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s00bfgfknkU Alice Chops the Suey ]] August 30, 1925
39	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P3Vmn6gPjU4 Alice the Jail Bird]] September 15, 1925
40	* Alice Plays Cupid October 15, 1925
41	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yohnIDyOLeg Alice Rattled by Rats]] November 15, 1925
42	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sO7HXbx1hH0 Alice in the Jungle]] December 15, 1925
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44	!!1926
45	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JYHYxh2FYA4 Alice on the Farm]] January 1, 1926
46	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oahIbe-A8lM Alice's Balloon Race]] January 15, 1926
47	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KoFa_j_l3F4 Alice's Orphan]] January 15, 1926
48	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UeR2NPHcgeY Alice's Little Parade]] February 1, 1926
49	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GGXh0hgB6L Alice's Mysterious Mystery]] February 15, 1926
50	* Alice Charms the Fish September 6, 1926 (Lost cartoon)
51	* Alice's Monkey Business September 20, 1926 (Lost cartoon)
52	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VMbLp0f3j2A Alice in the Wooly West]] October 4, 1926
53	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Az_E2hLkecQ Alice the Fire Fighter]] October 18, 1926
54	* Alice Cuts the Ice November 1, 1926 (Lost cartoon)
55	* Alice Helps the Romance November 15, 1926
56	* Alice's Spanish Guitar November 29, 1926
57	* Alice's Brown Derby December 13, 1926
58	* Alice the Lumberjack December 27, 1926 (Lost cartoon)
59
60	!!1927
61	* Alice the Golf Bug January 10, 1927, lost cartoon
62	* Alice Foils the Pirates January 24, 1927 (Lost cartoon)
63	* Alice at the Carnival February 10, 1927 (Lost cartoon)
64	* Alice at the Rodeo February 21, 1927
65	* Alice the Collegiate March 7, 1927 (Lost cartoon)
66	* Alice in the Alps March 21, 1927 (Lost cartoon)
67	* Alice's Auto Race April 4, 1927 (Lost cartoon)
68	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QkchkE2FhbQ Alice's Circus Daze]] April 18, 1927
69	* Alice's Knaughty Knight May 2, 1927 (Lost cartoon)
70	* Alice's Three Bad Eggs May 16, 1927 (Lost cartoon)
71	* Alice's Picnic May 30, 1927
72	* Alice's Channel Swim June 13, 1927 (Lost cartoon)
73	* Alice in the Klondike June 27, 1927 (Lost cartoon)
74	* Alice's Medicine Show July 11, 1927 (Lost cartoon)
75	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6dvI0nS3ugo Alice the Whaler]] July 25, 1927
76	* Alice the Beach Nut August 8, 1927 (Lost cartoon)
77	* Alice in the Big League August 22, 1927
78	[[/folder]]
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80	!!This series provides examples of:
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82	%%* AliceAllusion
83	* AnimalStereotypes: 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.
84	* AmusingInjuries: Including severed limbs and decapitation.
85	* AppendageAssimilation: The way characters will recover from their AmusingInjuries.
86	* BagOfKidnapping: Alice is kidnapped this way a couple of times, once from the character that would become Mickey's arch nemesis Pete.
87	* BattleDiscretionShot: Often preferred over the BigBallOfViolence.
88	%%* BehindAStick
89	%%* BigBallOfViolence
90	* BreakoutCharacter: WesternAnimation/{{Pete}} made his debut in this series about two years after it began, and continued to make appearances in WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts afterwards.
91	* CatsAreMean: Julius is an aversion, which may disprove the oft-repeated rumor that Walt Disney inherently disliked cats. [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts Pegleg]] {{WesternAnimation/Pete}} first appears in this series, but won't officially become a cat until WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse comes along (here, he's portrayed as a nondescript bearlike creature).
92	** Julius is depicted as an abusive laborer in "Alice's Egg Plant".
93	* CaptainErsatz: Julius is nothing more than [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat Felix]] moonlighting in a Disney cartoon. [[ExecutiveMeddling Pat Sullivan wanted him in.]]
94	** Or rather, Charlies Mintz wanted Julius in, which pissed off Pat Sullivan enough to cancel his distribution contract with Mintz.
95	* {{Cliffhanger}}: The version of ''Alice's Wonderland'' included with the DVD and Blu-Ray editions of ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'' ends with Alice falling into a hole, since the people compiling the bonus features utilized a print that lacked the ending.
96	* CreatorCameo: Walt himself appears in the first short.
97	%%* DerangedAnimation
98	* DetachmentCombat: Julius' tail can detach and change itself into any tool he might need.
99	* DidntThinkThisThrough: 'Alice's Tin Pony'. Julius, slapping a sign that reads "This car is carrying a big payroll" onto the train? That's not helping.
100	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: 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.
101	%%* EverybodyDoTheEndlessLoop
102	* FramingDevice: The world is a dream world Alice sees when unconscious.
103	%%* FunnyAnimal
104	%%* GravityIsAHarshMistress
105	%%* IdeaBulb
106	* InterspeciesRomance: Between Alice and Julius.
107	** Weirdly enough, that subtext was dubbed in later during the 1930s soundtracked reissues. It's more of a [[LikeBrotherAndSister Brother-Sister dynamic.]]
108	*** 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.
109	* MediumAwareness: Characters are aware they are made of ink and take advantage of the fact.
110	%%* MediumBlending
111	%%* NegativeContinuity
112	* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Near the end of the series, Alice would have a new job every episode; from soldier to whaler to farmer.
113	* PublicDomainAnimation: As of 2023, all the shorts in this series are now in the public domain in the United States.
114	* RogerRabbitEffect: Inverted in this case--Walt took inspiration from [[Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer Max Fleischer's]] "Out of the Inkwell" comedies, but whereas that series was a cartoon character entering our world, Walt took a live action girl and threw her into a cartoon world!
115	* ScoobyDoobyDoors: Done with rocks in ''Alice in the Wooly West''.
116	%%* {{Slapstick}}
117	* SmurfettePrinciple: Alice is pretty much the only female character in the entire series. Most others are either decidedly male or AmbiguousGender (but most likely male).
118	* TokenMinority: 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 '''K'''lues of the '''K'''ook '''K'''lakz).
119	%%* ToonPhysics
120	* WouldHitAGirl: In "Alice's Tin Pony," Pete punches a mouse girl who was trying to flirt with him.
121	%%* YourSizeMayVary: {{Invoked}}

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