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We were recently discussing our favourite Disney film and funny characters from those films. One question that we just asked was 'what was the rabbits name in alice in wonderland'? Non of us knew the answer. We then got in to a big conversation about characters from various scenes that we loved but don't know the name of. It struck us that it was interesting the way in which our attention is so focused on the comedic aspect of a scene that information that would normally be a basic is pushed aside. We realised that there are many films and scenes where we didn't know the names of well known characters; all because someone had to ask 'what was the rabbits name in alice in wonderland'. This whole conversation got us interested in finding out more about Disney for some reason. Here is what we found on how Disney films first began to be made.
Walt Disney's signature contracting him to the Alice Comedies on October 16th 1923 was the foundation of the "Disney Company" previously known as Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio. Walt had decided to take up an offer from his brother Roy Oliver Disney to join him in Hollywood from Kansas City. Walt brought with him his last one-reeler named "Alice in Wonderland" which combined live action with animation kick starting the Alice Comedies. This was the start of decades that would eventually lead US to wonder 'what was the rabbits name in alice in wonderland'.
The Disney Company's first Alice Comedy named "Alice's Day at Sea" was released in 1924 before at the suggestion of Roy, the Disney Company was renamed Walt Disney Studio in 1926. The Alice series ended in 1927 giving way for the very first cartoon "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit".
Next Mortimer Mouse created by Disney and Iwerks failed to find a distributor, however with prompting from Lillie Belle it was decided to cast Mortimer in the first sound animated film Steamboat Willie. Mortimer soon became Mickey and as they say the rest is history.
In a ten-year span between 1927-1937 legendary cartoon characters such as Mickey Mouse, Pluto, Goofy and Donald Duck all joined the Disney gang in the Mickey Mouse series.
Walt Disney went on to make history in 1937 when Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs became the first feature length animated film to be released. With an estimated budges of $1.5 million Snow White gripped global audiences and became the highest grossing film until Gone with the wind in 1939.
The success of the film enabled Disney to build a new campus for Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, which opened for business on Christmas Eve, 1939. His staff, by this time had swelled to more than a thousand artists, animators, writers, and technicians. The Walt Disney Studio had officially grown up.
Walt Disney Studios had just completed Pinocchio and were working on Fantasia and Bambi when World War II broke out in 1939. While Pinocchio and Fantasia were both released, neither performed particularly well. After the US entered the war, ninety-four percent of Disney's studio facilities were taken over by the military for work on training films for the armed services, health films for the general public, and short propaganda pieces like Der Fuhrer's Face.
The cheaply produced Dumbo made some money for the studio, but Bambi finally released in 1942, also bombed on its initial release. For the next several years, the studio focused on shorts and compilation films. It was not until the late forties that they had recovered enough to start concentrating on feature films again. Cinderella was released in 1950, followed by Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and Sleeping Beauty.
During the Fabulous Fifties, the studio had branched out into nature documentaries, live action features such as Treasure Island and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and television. They were handling their own distribution through their new subsidiary, Buena Vista Distribution. By the end of the decade, the Disney Empire was a major success, and Walt Disney Productions had become the world's leading purveyor and innovator of 'family entertainment'. We actually never got around to looking up the answer to 'what was the rabbits name in alice in wonderland'. Perhaps we'll take a look now, we just got hooked on this story.
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