Others attempted to bring Carroll’s nonsense and fantasy up to date on film in 1903, 1910, and 1915, and Disney himself had begun planning an aborted Alice movie with silent-era icon Mary Pickford in the early 1930s, but by the end of the Second World War, a definitive Disney adaptation had yet to appear. “No story in English literature has intrigued me more than Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland,” Disney told the American Weekly in 1946. “It fascinated me the first time I read it as a schoolboy and as soon as I possibly could after I started making animated cartoons, I acquired the film rights to it.” The animator found special personal resonance in the fact that “people in his period had no time to waste on triviality, yet Carroll with his nonsense and fantasy furnished a balance between seriousness and enjoyment which everybody needed then and still needs today.” But when Walt Disney, not a man of small ambitions, set about to bring Carroll’s world to the silver screen, he pressed on until it became 1951’s Alice in Wonderland - about 20 years after the idea came to him in the first place.
Nobody knows how many Alice adaptations have, consequently, imploded before even beginning.
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Maybe the episodic nature of the book gives them trouble, maybe the humor and unexpected logic of its much-celebrated “nonsense” don’t really translate from the printed word to the spoken, or maybe Carroll knew how to handle the boundary between the real and the unreal in a way no other creator can imitate. Many filmmakers have tried to adapt Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, but none, in the estimation of most enthusiasts of either Alice or animation, have fully succeeded.
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