A little girl filmed in live action and placed in a cartoon world—that’s how Walt Disney established his Hollywood studio, producing 56 of these shorts between 1923 and 1927. SFIAF partners with the newly opened Walt Disney Family Museum to present a selection of these charming films. The program will be presented by Russell Merritt and J.B. Kaufman, authors of Walt in Wonderland and Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies. Experts on the early period of Walt Disney’s filmmaking, Merritt and Kaufman have chosen a number of representative Alice films, and will elucidate their significance, style and practice. These lovely Alice films are rarely screened in theaters, and with learned, enthusiastic Disney historians on hand, this program will appeal to families, Disney buffs and general audiences alike.

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