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Plot

Young Alice, having become a celebrity for her adventures in Wonderland, is in her bedroom dreaming about visiting

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and sharing adventures with the storybook girl

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. While no comment is made as to where this Alice comes from or what time the film is set in, Alice seems to be American, as she likes

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s and is having a great deal of trouble when it comes to getting to France. As Alice points out, “Getting to Wonderland was easy – all I had to do was fall down the rabbit hole. But let’s face it – it takes money to get to Paris!”. As Alice dreams in her bedroom, a talking mouse named François rides a bicycle into Alice's bedroom and wants to conduct a survey about her favourite cheeses. Alice wants to join François in his native Paris, so François uses a cheese that his company makes, which uses the same magical mushroom she ate in Wonderland as an ingredient, to shrink Alice to rodent size. Together, they ride through Paris, where François narrates a series of short stories with a Parisian theme. The film includes brief adaptations of five short stories: *

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' '' Anatole'' *

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's ''The Frowning Prince'' *

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''. In the end, when Alice finally meets her, it turns out that Madeline dreams of being Alice in Wonderland.

Cast

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as Alice *Luce Ennis as Singer *

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as Grand Wizard, King (''The Frowning Prince''), Queen, The Frowning Prince *

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as Anatole, Doucette, M. Duval *Trinka Snyder as Princess Lenore *

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as François, Narrator, King (''Many Moons''), Lord High Chamberlain * Lionel Wilson as Jester, Royal Mathematician, Royal Wizard, Minstrel

Production

''Alice of Wonderland in Paris'' was created by the team of Gene Deitch and William L. Snyder, who had previously collaborated on ''

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'', which won the

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in 1961. The filmmakers (along with

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) were also responsible for producing the 1960–1962 ''

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'' theatrical cartoons for

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and also were one of the producers of the ''

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between 1960 and 1963. Attracted to the economy and beauty of Prague, Deitch and Snyder produced cartoons for both cinema release and cartoons based on short stories for school

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use. Five of these stories were placed in the feature with new Alice sequences to be released as a feature film in the West. Actors

and

provided the voice performances, and Canadian actress

provided the voice of Alice. ''Alice of Wonderland in Paris'' runs 52 minutes, which is somewhat short for a feature film release, and it was presented for its 1966 U.S. theatrical distribution on a bill with the

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''. It was originally distributed in the U.S. theaters by a company called Childhood Productions; Paramount Pictures re-released it in 1975 as ''Alice in a New Wonderland'', and ''White Mane'' was also part of the bill.

References

External links

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