Dreamchild

Dreamchild tells the semi-biographical story of Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) and his relationship with young Alice Liddell.
Caroll dedicated his books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There to Liddell, and her name was borrowed for the fictional Alice. The film focuses on an elderly Alice, now Mrs. Alice Hargreaves, visiting the United States for a Lewis Carroll centenary event, who flashes back to her friendship with Carroll, and is haunted by dreams of meeting the characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Jim Henson's Creature Shop was employed for the dream sequences, building lifelike puppets of characters like the Gryphon, the Mock Turtle, the Mad Hatter, the Dormouse, the Caterpillar, and the March Hare. 
Dreamchild, which began shooting on July 16, 1984, is notable for being the first film project the Creature Shop worked on outside of the Henson company.Jim Henson's Red Book "7/16/1984 – ‘Dreamchild begins shooting.’" Early versions of cable controls were used, instead of the still early developmental animatronics.
The film was released in widescreen on DVD-R exclusively through Amazon.com in 2009, and received an HD transfer for Blu-ray in 2022.
==Cast==
*Coral Browne as Alice Hargreaves
*Peter Gallagher as Jack Dolan
*Ian Holm as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson
*Jane Asher as Mrs. Liddell
*Nicola Cowper as Lucy
*Caris Corfman as Sally
*Amelia Shankley as Young Alice
==Voice Cast==
*Fulton MacKay as the Gryphon
*Alan Bennett as the Mock Turtle
*Julie Walters as the Dormouse
*Ken Campbell as the March Hare
*Tony Haygarth as the Mad Hatter
*Frank Middlemass as the Caterpillar
==Puppeteers==
*Ron Mueck as the Gryphon
*Steve Whitmire as the Mock Turtle / the Caterpillar
*Karen Prell as the Dormouse
*Big Mick as the Mad Hatter
*Michael Sundin as the March Hare
*Cheryl McFadden receives a mention of "Special Thanks" in the credits. She choreographed all of the creature scenes in the film, but was not allowed to receive credit as Choreographer due to a lack of union working papers.New York Daily News "Gates McFadden on 'Star Trek,' Jim Henson and her new podcast" at 19:21, May 27, 2021
==Creature Shop Credits==
* Creature Design Supervisor: Lyle Conway
* Producer: Duncan Kenworthy
* Workshop Supervisor: Constance Peterson
* Mechanical Designers: Neal Scanlan, Nick Rayburn, David Alan Barclay, John Stephenson, Tad Krzanowski
* Mechanical Design Assistant Designers: Nik Williams, Graeme Galvin, Sherry Amott, Jane Gootnick, Amy Van Gilder
* Textile Designers: Lesja Liber, Cas Willing
* Modellers: Michael Osborn, Gary Pollard, Ron Mueck, Joan Thompson
* Creature Cable Controls: Lyle Conway, Sadie Corre, Chris Eveleigh, Richard Jones, Lesja Liber, Michael Osborn, Chris Ostwald, Michael Quinn, Nick Rayburn, Neal Scanlan, John Stephenson, Melissa Whitmire, Cas Willing; William Todd-Jones (uncredited)
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