Alice the Toreador

Name: Alice the Toreador
Director: Walt Disney
Genre: Animation
Released: 1925
Cast: Virginia Davis

1925 Animation Directed by Walt Disney

About Alice the Toreador

Alice steps into a bullfight expecting a peaceful bull. The animal is switched for one with a worse temper.

Cast & crew

More about Alice the Toreador

Virginia Davis is still Alice, before Margie Gay took the part, in a short Walt Disney directed and M.J. Winkler presented. Winkler distributed it states-rights on 15 January 1925. An alternate title is Alice and the Toreador.

Themes

A bullfight she expects to win
A peaceful bull
A meaner animal in its place
bullfight
Virginia Davis
Julius

Making

Disney sets up the tame bull so the switch is the turn of the short.

Music

Silent. The filmography does not list a sound reissue for this title.

Preservation

The Library of Congress holds an incomplete 16mm reference reduction positive, FAB 1199, from the AFI / George Marshall collection. Public domain in the United States.

Notes

The gag is the substitution, not a long cape routine.
The bullring is drawn around the live-action girl.
Inkwell Images included it on Alice in Cartoonland – The Original Alice Comedies by Walt Disney.
Julius is billed with Virginia Davis on the Silent Era cast line.