Alice and the Three Bears
About Alice and the Three Bears
The three bears are running stills, and Baby Bear's brew is short of hops, so he chases a frog and nets the word Hop out of the air. Alice and Julius arrive on a scooter after Julius plugs a flat tire with a smoke ring from his pipe, and they go into the house. Baby Bear fights Julius until Ma and Pa show up. They sack Alice and send the sack down a sawmill track toward the blade. Julius sends his nine lives in, and the home-brew brings the last one back.
Cast & crew
More about Alice and the Three Bears
Walt Disney directed, with Virginia Davis as Alice and Julius drawn beside her, and M.J. Winkler distributed it states-rights on 1 December 1924. A viewing note on the Internet Animation Database supplies the stills, the captured word Hop, the scooter, and the saw.
Themes
Making
The empty house is the fairy-tale beat. The stills and the sawmill are the cartoon additions.
Music
Silent. No sound reissue is listed.
Preservation
Silent Era: print exists. Public domain in the United States.
Notes
- Baby Bear does not buy hops. He tries to catch the sound of the word.
- The smoke-ring tire and the nine lives are Julius gags, not the bears'.
- The published one-paragraph synopsis stops at the empty cottage. The sawmill stretch is in the longer viewing note.
- A print exists, and the US rights are public domain. No disc is named on the Alice Comedies filmography.
Scenes
- Baby Bear nets the word Hop as the frog leaps away.
- Julius replaces a flat tire with a smoke ring.
- Ma and Pa throw Alice's sack onto the track toward the blade.
Influenced by
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears
