My Featured Film

"Alice in Wonderland "

I. About the Film

This film was made in 1903.
The silent film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's novel "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" directed and written by W.W. Young and starring Viola Savoy as Alice.
Original music composed by Marco De Boni in the film.
This movie is a monochrome / silent 8-minute short film made in 1903 five years after the author's death by the author Luis Carroll, followed by the development of technology and media, it has been made into a length.

And the first-ever film version of Lewis Carroll's tale has recently been restored by the BFI National rchive 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 colors for the first time in over 100 years.
Music: 'Jill in the Box', composed and performed by Wendy Hiscocks.
This restoration was supported by The Headley Trust and The Pilgrim Trust.

Works Cited （参考文献）
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeIXfdogJbA


II. Versions of the Film

There are 12 theatrical movies, 4 television movies and 4 TV series.
These were created in the United States, the UK and France.

1903 Alice in Wonderland
1910 Alice in Wonderlland
1915 Alice in Woderland
1931Alice in Wonderland
1933 Alice in Woderland
1949 Alice in Wonderland
1951 Alice in Wonderland
1972 Alice in Wonderland
1985 Alice in Wonderland
1988 Alice in Wonderland
2010 Alice in Wonderland

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%8D%E6%80%9D%E8%AD%B0%E3%81%AE%E5%9B%BD%E3%81%AE%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%81%AE%E6%98%A0%E5%83%8F%E4%BD%9C%E5%93%81


III. About the Lead Actor - Gladys Hulette


She was born on July 21, 1896.
Her actress debut work was a silent movie.
Her career began in the early years of silent movies and continued until the mid-1930s.
She first performed on stage at the age of three and on screen when she was seven years old.
Hulette was also a talented artist. Her mother was an opera star.
Ｓhe appeared in Romeo and Juliet (1908) and The Smoke Fairy (1909)
So she appeared in this movie when she was 14 years old (1910).
In her earliest motion picture features she was under contract to Vitagraph Studious.  

Works Cited （参考文献）


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Hulette

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - Film editing

・Film editing is assembling a complete film that is a unified whole.

・A story that can not be talked to in the real world talks with the main character Alice and 　　advances the story.

・In this story not only humans but also caterpillars, rabbits, cats, flowers are talking with the main character Alice.
It is becoming an important role of this story to embarrass the main character by speaking and entertaining.

B. Reaction Point - setting

・Setting is the context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.

・The main place in this story is in Alice 's dream.

・The place where the main stories are developed is in Alice 's dream.However, it is not realized that Alice 's hero is also in his dream in a world that is unlikely in reality.

C. Reaction Point - characters

・Characters is persons - or animals or natural forces represented as persons - in a work of literature.

・Besides humans, caterpillars, rabbits, cats, and flowers are strongly individualized, waiting for distinctive speech and characteristic habits.

・The Queen of Hearts is domineering personality, trying to treat a person named Heart's Jack as a felon just by being able to eat his own pie, and Cheshire Cat also has a domineering character.In addition, rabbits and Alice and other serious and modest personality are well transmitted.The story that such characters make up is cohesive and funny.

D. My General Opinion

I have liked this story from olden days and I was watching live-action film and animated movies.
I also read many novels from this story.
I am glad that I can find out about my favorite work.