Alice and the Dog Catcher
About Alice and the Dog Catcher
Alice presides over a secret club. The plan on the table is to get rid of the dogcatchers and let the dogs out.
Cast & crew
More about Alice and the Dog Catcher
Also called Alice the Dog Catcher, it was directed by Walt Disney and released states-rights by M.J. Winkler on 1 July 1924. Virginia Davis plays Alice. Silent Era bills Tommy Hicks as the big kid, with a tall catcher, a short catcher, and an Italian street vendor who are not named.
Themes
Making
The club meeting is the live-action frame. The catchers and the dogs they are after are the point of the raid.
Music
Silent. The filmography lists no sound reissue.
Preservation
A 35mm archival color-tinted nitrate positive survives at the Library of Congress in the Robert McCoy collection. Public domain in the United States.
Notes
- The Library of Congress holds a 35mm color-tinted nitrate positive from the AFI / Oregon Historical Society / Robert McCoy collection.
- Silent Era's cast line does not use the name Joe Allen. It uses Tommy Hicks for the big kid.
- Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney are named together as producers on one credit list. Silent Era puts a question mark on that line.
- The picture is black and white in the original release, with a tinted nitrate surviving.
Scenes
- Alice puts the plan to the club: remove the dogcatchers and free the dogs.
