Alice's Day At Sea (1923) | Alice Under The Sea | Alice Comedies
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ALICE'S DAY AT SEA is an American animated short film in the Alice Comedies series that was directed by Walt Disney. It stars Virginia Davis as Alice. It's black and white and silent. It features live action segments paired with animated sequences. It was filmed in December 1923, but wasn't released in theaters until March 1924.

Alice's trip to the sea, where she meets a sailor, inspires her to dream of a visit to an animated underwater world. Julius the Cat (seen here with fins), who would become Disney's first recurring animated character before the creation of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Mickey Mouse.

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The movie is historically significant because it was the first project created by the Disney Brothers Studio (now known as The Walt Disney Company) 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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