Alice Picks the Champ

Name: Alice Picks the Champ
Director: Walt Disney
Genre: Animation
Released: 1925
Cast: Margie Gay

1925 Animation Directed by Walt Disney

About Alice Picks the Champ

Inside the house, Julius puts on boxing gloves and fights a bear. Alice watches the bout and picks the winner.

Cast & crew

More about Alice Picks the Champ

Walt Disney directed, with Margie Gay as Alice, and M.J. Winkler distributed it states-rights. The series filmography dates it 30 July 1925 and still marks the title formerly lost. Thomas J. Stathes is the source for Silent Era's surviving 35mm positive.

Themes

Gloves on a cat
A bear in the house
Alice naming the winner
boxing
bear
Julius
Margie Gay

Making

Disney stages the whole match in the house, with the live-action girl beside a drawn bear and a drawn cat.

Music

Silent in 1925. A sound version is dated 15 March 1931.

Preservation

The series list still tags it formerly lost. Silent Era records a surviving 35mm positive and public-domain status in the United States.

Notes

The fight is indoors, not in a downtown ring.
The bear is drawn. Alice is photographed at the side of it.
The filmography's status cell reads 'Formerly lost,' which is how several recovered Alice shorts are tagged.
No disc edition is named for it on that filmography.