Editing Alice Comedies (section)

==''Alice's Wonderland''==
Disney, [[Ub Iwerks]], and their staff made the first ''Alice Comedy'', a one-[[film reel|reel]] (ten-minute) 1923 [[short subject]] titled ''[[Alice's Wonderland]]'', while still heading the failing [[Laugh-O-Gram Studio]] in [[Kansas City, Missouri]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7  |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/20/mode/2up |access-date=16 May 2020 |pages=20–21}}</ref>

''Alice's Wonderland'' begins with Alice entering a cartoon studio to witness cartoons being created. Alice is amazed by what she sees: the cartoon characters come to life and play around. After heading to bed that night, she dreams of being in the cartoon world, welcomed by all of the characters. Alice plays with them until a group of lions break free from a cage and chase her. Though never released, this short helped set the stage for what was to come in the later ''Alice Comedies'', as it established the world as a playful dream and also introduced the elements which would soon define the series. The idea of setting a real-world girl in an animated world was at this point in film history still unique. The design and voice of the later series were all set by this original film.