Alice in Wonderland (1949) — Phantomwise Reconstruction v1.1

This version of the 1949 Alice was painstakingly edited together by my partner, Phantomwise. She deserves huge thanks for her efforts on this!

Eventually, Thunderbean Animation will be releasing a high-quality Blu-ray of this film, sourced from a 35mm print at the MoMA that also contains deleted scenes. However, even though preorders were opened last year, updates since then have been scant, and we have no idea when it might be released. We decided to put this together so that we have something better than the poor copies floating around in the meantime.

This version of the film has been put together from 3 sources, 2 of which I transferred from VHS tapes:

• 1992 Monterey Home Video VHS — This is the best quality copy of the English version of the film currently available, surpassing all DVD versions we've seen. It is the commonly-available 76-minute cut.

• 1990 Kids Klassics/GoodTimes Home Video VHS — This is a different 63-minute cut of the English version of the film. It contains the original titles, some shots missing from the common version, and also unfortunately adds a narrator to the Oxford scenes that was not originally there.

• French DVD — The French version is practically a different film, the live-action scenes even being directed by a different person, Marc Maurette. However, because the English version is missing so much, the French version has been used to fill in some scenes. It is also far better quality than any of the English sources.

Because we only discovered the Monterey tape late in the process, this version uses the Kids Klassics tape as its base, since it was the highest quality copy we had before that point. A later version might change this to use more of the better-quality Monterey material.