Operation Wonderland

Behind-the-scenes in the making of Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland.

Part of what is called a storyboard.

Another guy explains how a storyboard helps the story move along.

The scene before being colored.

The way cartoons used to be made. There would be hundreds of different drawings, each showing a slight progression in movement. Then these would have to be photographed one at a time so that a film print could be made. Now the vast majority of cartoons and animations are done using a computer. The process is quicker and less labor-intensive, but doesn't always show the smoothness of the early one-frame-at-a-time method of production.

The girl who provided the voice of and singing of Alice.

Rehearsing the tea party scene. Ed Wynn wears no makeup, of course. The artists watch how he moves and then they make their sketches. Today Ed Wynn would be fitted with loads and loads of sensors, be filmed before a giant green screen, and a computer would track his every movement. Images would then be produced and altered to make him look like the Mad Hatter.


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