Alice in Wonderland : by Lou Bunin
Apr 12th, 2010 by MrCult
Lou Bunin was a prominent puppeteer, an artist, and pioneer of stop-motion animation in the latter half of the twentieth century. While working as a mural artist under Diego Rivera in Mexico City in 1926, Bunin created political puppet shows using marionettes including a production of Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape. Photographer Tina Modotti took many pictures of Bunin and his puppets, incluing her renowned work, “The Hands of the Puppeteer.” On his return to the United States, Bunin created animated three-dimensional puppets to appear in the 1929 World’s Fair in New York. His political stop-motion satire, “Bury the Axis,” is the first known stop-motion animated production in the United States. Later Bunin landed a job with MGM studios where he created the stop-motion Prologue to the famed film, Ziegfeld Follies (MGM). He was subsequently fired as a casualty of mccarthyism. Bunin went on to create a feature length stop-motion animation film adaptation of Alice in Wonderland in 1949, starring Carol Marsh as a live-action Alice. A lawsuit from Walt Disney prevented it from being widely released in the US, so that it would not compete with Disney’s forthcoming 1951 animated version. Time Magazine article July 16th 1951: Walt Disney’s animated color film Alice in Wonderland (RKO Radio) is booked into Manhattan’s Criterion Theater for its US premiere Aug. i. Six days earner, Producer Lou Bunin’s French-made puppet & live-action Alice in Wonderland (released through Souvaine …
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Looks a lot more imaginative than Burton’s computer generated film.
i wish you could find the whole movie somewhere
Yes,anyone with a ‘BRAIN’ knows the 1933 film version is the best,this version should be called ‘Alice In PuPPetland!.’
i thought the movie was very rich & charasmatic with all it’s “strange” lively characters & potent storyline at tvserieshub. COM
one of the few decent versions of the Alice books. The best I feel is the 1933 version.
i dont like this version of the movie
strong acting by “all” voice actors and on screen actors: JOHNNY DEPP certainly delivered I loved him as the MAD HATTER and yes he was pretty scary at times especially when he goes into his M rythms, that was “cool”. i saw it at tvserieshub. COM
i thought the movie was very rich & charasmatic with all it’s “strange” lively characters & potent storyline at tvserieshub. COM
i watched Alice in wonderland 10 times its my most favorite movie ever. its the best movie ever. i love it so much my favorite characters have to be the mad hater and the cat. i saw it at tvserieshub. COM
mia looked so great for the role. i absolutely loved this movie! first time there has been a film with absolutely no parts that I didn’t like at tvserieshub. COM
coolest movie i’ve seen in a while. i loved the variety of characters too, i saw it at tvserieshub. COM. what an amazing movie.
coolest movie i’ve seen in a while. i loved the variety of characters too, i saw it at tvserieshub. COM. what an amazing movie.
The casting of Alice was perfect. Johnny Depp was great as the Mad Hatter and Helena Bonham Carter absolutely stole the show as the Red Queen. I saw it at tvserieshub. COM
Alice is rockin! It was an EXTENSION to the books which I’ve read. I love that Alice was not an exact remake of the book! Very creative if you ask me. I saw it at tvserieshub. COM
Tim Burton did an amazing job by taking the original story, twisting it and making it incredible! I saw it at tvserieshub. COM
This movie was actually great and I was nowhere near disappointed. I loved it and it is beyond amazing. Do not use Rotten Tomatoes or any movie critic as a resource. Tim Burton and the cast truly brings Wonderland to life. I saw it at tvserieshub. COM
This one of my Favorite versions of “Alice” Thanks for the Great post
This movie was actually great and I was nowhere near disappointed. I loved it and it is beyond amazing. Do not use Rotten Tomatoes or any movie critic as a resource. Tim Burton and the cast truly brings Wonderland to life. I saw it at tvserieshub. COM
johnny depp is phenomenal. its a sequel to the original story too, so glad it was not a total remake of the original. i saw it at tvserieshub. com
i loved the variety of characters in this flick, i saw it at tvserieshub. COM. what an amazing movie.
The visuals in Alice were perfection, the story stayed close to the original but was it’s own at the same time. I saw it at tvserieshub. COM
Tim Burton did an amazing job by taking the original story, twisting it and making it incredible! I saw it at tvserieshub. COM
The visuals in Alice were perfection, the story stayed close to the original but was it’s own at the same time. I saw it at tvserieshub. COM
Tim Burton did an amazing job by taking the original story, twisting it and making it incredible! I saw it at tvserieshub. COM