Alice's Spooky Adventure
About Alice's Spooky Adventure
A baseball goes through the window of a haunted house, and Alice is the only one who goes in after it. She falls and dreams she pulls a sheet off a cartoon cat. Ghosts at a mah-jong table chase them. The cat yanks off his tail for a club, and Alice pulls an exclamation mark down and uses it the same way. She wakes with the ball, and the police arrest her for the damage.
Cast & crew
More about Alice's Spooky Adventure
Winkler Pictures produced and distributed it. The Wikipedia cast is Virginia Davis, Leon Holmes, and Spec O'Donnell, while Silent Era's viewing credit names Tommy Hicks as the big kid and leaves the policeman without a name. Walt Disney directed the 1 April 1924 release.
Themes
Making
The bump on the head is the cut from the photographed house into the ghost town. The arrest is back in live action, after she has the ball.
Music
Silent. The filmography does not list a sound reissue.
Preservation
Silent Era: a print with Dutch intertitles survives at Eye Film Instituut Nederland. Public domain in the United States.
Notes
- The boy credits do not match: Wikipedia names Leon Holmes as the tubby boy and Spec O'Donnell as a boy; Silent Era names Tommy Hicks as the big kid.
- D23 calls this the first Alice short in which Julius is known to appear, after a prototype cat in Alice's Wonderland.
- A print with Dutch intertitles is at Eye Film Instituut Nederland.
- The picture is black and white. Silent Era's subject keywords include baseball, mah-jong, and ghosts.
Scenes
- Alice pulls the sheet off the cat in the dream.
- Julius wrecks a mah-jong game and fights with his own tail.
- She uses a cartoon exclamation mark as a club.
- The police arrest her once she is awake.
