Alice's Little Parade
About Alice's Little Parade
Julius rides through town declaring war, and he stuffs the words into a deaf man's earpiece. The villagers arm. Alice inspects the line while an army of mice fires its cannons. A shell blows Julius apart, and a hospital rebuilds him from spare parts. He comes back with a fan and a piece of strong cheese, draws the mice out of the trench, and clubs them with his tail.
Cast & crew
More about Alice's Little Parade
M.J. Winkler released it on a states-rights basis. Silent Era cannot settle the maker line, which it leaves as either Disney Brothers Studio or Walt Disney Studios, Incorporated, and it marks the phrase 'for M.J. Winkler' as uncertain too. Margie Gay plays Alice.
Themes
Making
The opening recruitment is a street gag: Julius yanks the top of a house down so he can push the declaration into the earpiece.
Look
Rudolph Ising photographed Margie Gay's inspection of the drawn troops, on 35mm.
Music
It opened silent. Raytone Pictures, which in March 1930 announced eighteen Alice reissues with music and effects recorded by Brunswick, dated a sound version of this short 1 September 1930.
Preservation
Silent Era's survival line is 'Print exists,' and it lists the US rights as public domain.
Notes
- Disney Shorts, citing Russell Merritt and J. B. Kaufman in Walt in Wonderland, gives the running time as 6 minutes 50 seconds.
- That same credit list names Rudolph Ising as cameraman.
- The picture is black and white, 35mm, spherical, 1.33:1.
- The Internet Archive file is the Bill Sprague collection print.
Scenes
- Julius pushes the words 'war is declared' into a deaf man's earpiece.
- Hospital staff reassemble him from leftover parts.
- He fans cheese over the trench and clubs each mouse that climbs out.
Also available
- Internet Archive (BillSpragueCollection-1926-AlicesLittleParade-waltDisney-PUBLICDOMAIN)
