Alice's Spooky Adventure (1924) | Alice In A Haunted House | Alice Comedies
Channel: Screen Prism
Date: 2024-04-08

ALICE'S SPOOKY ADVENTURE is a black-and-white silent short subject created and directed by Walt Disney. It stars Virginia Davis as Alice. It features live action segments paired with animated sequences. It was released on April 1, 1924.

When a ball is accidentally knocked through the window of a haunted house, Alice is the only one brave enough to go inside to retrieve it. While she's in there, she falls and bumps her head, which sends her to a cartoon dreamworld.

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The movie is historically significant because it was the first project created by the Disney Brothers Studio in Los Angeles. Walt and Roy founded the studio after their first animation studio, Laugh-O-Gram Studio in Kansas City, Missouri, went out of business.

The Alice Comedies series was created by Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks, and their staff in the 1920s, in which a live action little girl named Alice has adventures in an animated landscape. The shorts were the first work by what ultimately became The Walt Disney Company. Unfortunately, not all of these shorts survived. 

This film is in the public domain meaning it has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Corporations, including The Walt Disney Company, lobbied Congress to get U.S. copyright laws extended by 20 years, twice! Because of that, it allows published works to be under copyright for almost a century and corporations to squeeze every last ounce of profit from them even long after the profitability has past. It keeps people from enjoying art, which is the purpose of art.

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