''Alice's Day at Sea'' was the first animated short film in the series of the

Alice Comedies The ''Alice Comedies'' are a series of animated/live-action shorts created by Walt Disney in the 1920s, in which a live action little girl named Alice (originally played by Virginia Davis) and an animated cat named Julius have adventures in an ...

that was directed

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. It was black and white and silent, and featured live action segments paired with animated sequences. It is a historically significant film as it was the first project created by the Disney Brothers Studio. Established by Roy and Walt Disney in Los Angeles on October 16, 1923, they worked from a rented back office of the Holly Vermont Realty located at 4651 Kingswell Avenue. “Alice’s Day at Sea” was delivered to distributor M.J. Winkler on December 26, 1923, but wasn't released in theaters until March 1924.

Theatrical poster

According to the

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, the poster for this film was sold for $36,534 at

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auction, the most valuable cartoon poster of all time up until then. Since the publication of that list, the poster for The Mad Doctor (1933), starring Mickey Mouse, has sold for $138,000 at Heritage Auctions (March 2006).

References

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Alice's Day at Sea
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The Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts
1920s Disney animated short films American silent short films American black-and-white films 1924 animated films Films directed by Walt Disney Alice Comedies 1924 comedy films 1924 films Animated films without speech 1920s American films {{Disney-animation-film-stub