'Alice in Wonderland' (1903)

Alice in Wonderland (1903) 

Ficha técnica:
Características: 35mm, preto e branco, mudo
Realização: Percy Stow e Cecil M.Hepworth
Produtora: Hepworth &Co.
Autor: Lewis Carroll

Música: Jill in the Box

Composição e interpretação: Wendy Hiscocks

 

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Uma pérola, resgatada à mó dos anos e recentemente restaurada pelo British Film Institute: a primeira versão cinematográfica do conto de Lewis Caroll, Alice no País das Maravilhas.
A estreia acontece hoje, com direito a acompanhamento de piano ao vivo, na British Library, em Londres, onde também se encontra o manuscrito original da obra.
A boa notícia é que, a partir de Março, o filme restaurado fica disponível online e pode ser visto gratuitamente no site do BFI.
Basta estar com atenção e ir espreitando o Screenonline.


A legenda que acompanha:

The first-ever film version of Lewis Carroll's tale has recently been restored by the BFI National Archive from severely damaged materials. Made just 37 years after Lewis Carroll wrote his novel and eight years after the birth of cinema, the adaptation was directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow, and was based on Sir John Tenniel's original illustrations. In an act that was to echo more than 100 years later, Hepworth cast his wife as the Red Queen, and he himself appears as the Frog Footman. Even the Cheshire cat is played by a family pet.

With a running time of just 12 minutes (8 of which survive), Alice in Wonderland was the longest film produced in England at that time. Film archivists have been able to restore the film's original colours for the first time in over 100 years.

 

# Para mais:

• sobre o filme
• Sinopse
  
• Elenco e ficha técnica da versão de 1903
  
• adaptações anteriores
• versão de Tim Burton

Cf. também:

Alice in Wonderland (1966)
Hepworth, Cecil (1874-1953)
Stow, Percy (1876-1919)