Alice Solves the Puzzle
About Alice Solves the Puzzle
Alice is stuck on a crossword. Her cat Julius takes her to the beach. After a swim she goes back to the puzzle. Bootleg Pete, who collects rare crosswords, sees that hers is the one he lacks and demands it. She refuses, hits him, and locks herself in a lighthouse. Pete breaks in. Julius climbs up, knocks Pete off the lighthouse, and Alice fills in the last squares: "The End."
Cast & crew
More about Alice Solves the Puzzle
Walt Disney directed the fifteenth Alice Comedy. M. J. Winkler produced it and Winkler Pictures released it on 15 February 1925. Margie Gay plays Alice, the first Alice short with her instead of Virginia Davis. Ub Iwerks, Rollin Hamilton, and Thurston Harper animated it. The Internet Animation Database also lists Mike Marcus on camera.
Themes
Background
Pete is called Bootleg Pete because he carries whiskey while alcohol is illegal.
In film history
This is the first film with Pete, later the longest-running Disney character.
Look
Mike Marcus is credited with the camera on the Internet Animation Database. The short mixes Margie Gay's live-action scenes with the cartoon beach and lighthouse.
Preservation
American prints lack a scene, found by Russell Merritt on a German print, of Pete towed by a pelican.
Notes
- The Wikipedia infobox times the short at 6 minutes 54 seconds.
- Pete's first film appearance is here, under the name Bootleg Pete, with a bottle, during Prohibition.
- A caption in the film reads, "Little Alice never had a cross word, not even with a puzzle.
- Russell Merritt found a German print with an extra shot of Pete in a boat pulled by a pelican, missing from American prints.
Scenes
- Pete demands the crossword and Alice slaps him.
- Julius knocks Pete off the lighthouse.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Alice Solves the Puzzle (1925).webm)
Quotes
Little Alice never had a cross word, not even with a puzzle.
