Alice's Egg Plant

1925 Animation 9 minutes Directed by Walt Disney

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About Alice's Egg Plant

Alice and Julius run a chicken farm and take an order for 5,000 eggs from Sinkem and Soakem. A chicken from Moscow, Little Red Henski, gets the hens to strike for shorter hours and smaller eggs. Alice sees two roosters fighting and they stage a prize fight, one egg a ticket. They fill the order and drive off. The load slides and the eggs break.

Cast & crew

More about Alice's Egg Plant

Walt Disney directed. Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney produced it for M.J. Winkler. Anne Shirley, then billed as Dawn O'Day, plays Alice in her only turn in the series. Ub Iwerks, Ham Hamilton, and Thurston Harper animated. Mike Marcus was the cameraman.

Themes

  • An egg order of 5,000
  • A strike for smaller eggs
  • A prize fight that costs one egg
  • A truck that loses the load
  • Alice Comedy
  • Julius
  • hens
  • strike
  • Little Red Henski
  • eggs
  • Dawn O'Day

Look

Mike Marcus is credited on camera. The strike and the rooster fight are the drawn half; Alice is live.

Scenes

  • The hens pay one egg each to watch two roosters box.
  • The egg crate slides off the truck and breaks.

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (Alice's Egg Plant (1925) silent.webm)

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