Curious Alice

1971 FamilyAnimation Directed by Dave Dixon

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About Curious Alice

Alice's trip is not down a rabbit hole. It starts in her house, where the medicine cabinet and the kitchen cabinet hold things that look tempting and are dangerous. After she swallows one, Wonderland is her own mind, and her sense of what is real has changed. The story is used as a warning about children taking drugs by accident.

Cast & crew

More about Curious Alice

The catalog credits Dave Dixon as director. Wikidata lists no director. It is based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The year is 1971.

Themes

  • a household poison
  • Wonderland as a drugged mind
  • Alice
  • medicine cabinet
  • kitchen cabinet
  • Wonderland
  • 1971

Notes

  • The cabinets at home replace the rabbit hole.
  • The altered Wonderland begins after she swallows something from the house, not after a labeled potion in a book scene.
  • The catalog frames the short as a warning about accidental drug use by children.

Scenes

  • Alice takes something from the cabinets at home and the rooms become Wonderland.

Influenced by

  • Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (Curious Alice (1971).webm)