"An Alice Cartoon"
Release Date February 15, 1925
Running Time 6:47
Synopsis
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Alice and Julius are playing on the seashore when Pete comes around, gets
Julius drunk and tries to steal a crossword puzzle from Alice. Julius has
to sober up to come to the rescue.
Characters
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Alice and Julius
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Pete
Credits
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Director : Walt Disney
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Animation
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Ub Iwerks
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Rollin "Ham" Hamilton
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Thurston Harper
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Live action camera : Mike Marcus
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Live action actors
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Margie Gay
Milestones
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The first appearance of the character who would later metamorphize into Pete;
also the first appearance of Margie Gay, the second actress to play Alice.
Cut Scenes
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Scenes showing Pete's bootlegging and Julius getting drunk were cut when
the short was reissued.
Videos
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Disney's Beginnings
(1920-1927) (Non-Disney video)
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Before Walt (Non-Disney
video - Inkwell Images)
DVD
- Before Walt (Non-Disney : Inkwell Images)
- Alice in Cartoonland (Non-Disney : Inkwell Images)
- Disney's Alice Comedies : Volume 2 (Non-Disney : Tom's Vintage Film)
- Alice in Cartoonland (Non-Disney : VCI Home Video)
Technical Specifications
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Color Type : Black and White
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Animation type : Combination live-action and standard animation
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Sound mix : Silent
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Aspect ration : 1.37 : 1
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Negative format : 35mm
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Print format : 35mm
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Cinematographic process : Spherical
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Original language : English
Released by M. J. Winkler Productions
Gallery
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Comments
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From Ryan : Here it is! The first appearance
of Pegleg Pete (who was then known as Bootleg Pete). In this short, Pete
is a collector of crossword puzzles and discovers that Alice's puzzle is
missing from his collection. The version of this short that I own has a poorly
synchronized soundtrack added to it. Apparently, when this short was rereleased
sometime in the 30's or 40's, Disney added a soundtrack to it. I think it
was better off left the way it was.
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From starsweeper : Lucy Maud Montgomery, famed author of 'Anne of Green Gables' took her kids to see this movie in Uxbridge, Ontario on August 22, 1925. I really like this journal entry because it shows how the Alice Comedies were received by audiences of the time:
"The film was a good one ... detailing the adventures of a cross-words puzzle "fan" was the most excruciatingly funny thing I ever saw. I laughed until my cheeks ached and I felt young again. I am thankful I have never lost the power to become a child again at will. We were just three kids together there tonight ... we had a good time, howling over it, and a lovely drive home, the three of us in the back seat, and had almost as much fun talking the movie all over again."
