Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll, 1865
A bored girl follows a hurrying rabbit underground into a world where nothing keeps its size, its rules or its temper.
Trailer
The film
Story map
12 chapters, one picture each
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Chapter 1
Down the Rabbit-Hole
Bored on a riverbank, Alice chases a white rabbit who checks a pocket watch and frets that he is late. She tumbles down a very long hole into a hall of locked doors.
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Chapter 2
The Pool of Tears
A drink and a cake make Alice grow enormous, then shrink again. She ends up swimming in the pool of tears she cried while she was giant-sized.
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Chapter 3
A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
Soaked birds and animals crawl ashore and run a race with no rules in which everyone wins. Alice hands out sweets as prizes, then scares them all off by talking about her cat.
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Chapter 4
The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
Mistaken for the Rabbit's maid, Alice is sent to his house, drinks from a bottle and grows until she fills it. A lizard comes down the chimney and is sent flying straight back out.
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Chapter 5
Advice from a Caterpillar
A caterpillar on a mushroom keeps asking Alice who she is. He tells her one side of the mushroom will make her grow and the other will make her shrink.
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Chapter 6
Pig and Pepper
In a kitchen thick with pepper, a Duchess shakes a howling baby and tosses it to Alice. Outside it turns into a pig, and a grinning cat in a tree slowly fades away.
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Chapter 7
A Mad Tea-Party
At a long table set for many, a hatter, a hare and a sleepy dormouse talk in riddles and keep moving seats. For them it is always teatime.
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Chapter 8
The Queen's Croquet-Ground
Card gardeners paint white roses red before the Queen arrives shouting for heads. The croquet uses flamingos for mallets and hedgehogs for balls, and nobody follows any rules.
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Chapter 9
The Mock Turtle's Story
The Queen sends Alice with a Gryphon to meet a weeping Mock Turtle. Between sighs he describes the odd lessons he took at school under the sea.
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Chapter 10
The Lobster Quadrille
The Gryphon and the Mock Turtle show Alice a dance done with lobsters at the seashore and sing a mournful song about soup. Then a cry goes up that the trial is starting.
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Chapter 11
Who Stole the Tarts?
In a crowded courtroom the King sits as judge, a jury of animals scribbles on slates, and the Knave is accused of stealing tarts. The witnesses only make things more confused.
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Chapter 12
Alice's Evidence
Grown tall again, Alice refuses the Queen's order of sentence first and verdict afterwards. She calls the court nothing but a pack of cards, they fly up at her, and she wakes on the riverbank.
Who will love it
Anyone who likes stories that play with logic, at any age.