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The 1951 Disney version of Alice in Wonderland has an even longer history than the Disney corporation itself.

In 1923 Walt Disney made a series of short animations which failed to be successful so he made a short called Alice's Wonderland featuring a live action Alice interacting with cartoon characters. This also failed so he abandoned the idea of making animations and went to Hollywood in the hopes of becoming a director of live action films.

His aspiration to become a live action director was unsuccessful so he formed a partnership with his brother Roy and they founded the Disney Brothers Studio with the idea of returning to animated shorts. Between 1924 and 1926 they made a series of over fifty shorts called Alice Comedies. These were very successful and helped to establish Disney as a film producer.

Walt wanted Alice in Wonderland to be Disney's first feature length film and in 1933 they shot a screen test starring Mary Pickford as Alice. However, Paramount Pictures released a version of Alice in Wonderland the same year, so Disney's plans were postponed.

In 1945 Disney proposed a live action version starring Ginger Rogers as Alice but these plans fell through.

In 1946 work began on an all animated version based on Tenniel's illustrations, but Disney rejected it at the storyboarding stage.

After abandoning yet another attempt to make a live action version, work began in the late 1940s to produce an all animated version with a less rigid focus on the original text and illustrations, and in 1951 Alice in wonderland finally arrived on cinema screens eighteen years after Disney first decided to make Alice into a feature film and nearly thirty years after his first Alice shorts.

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