The original Alice character in the book was brown haired, but the Disney version depicts her as blonde.

The film is the thirteenth animated feature from Walt Disney Productions. Its United Kingdom premiere was July 26, 1951, and its general United States release was on July 28, 1951. It is based primarily on Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking Glass (1871).

The budget of the film was approximately three million United States dollars.

Upon its original release, the film was not especially successful at the box office and received mixed reviews.

Walt Disney himself felt the film “had no heart” and blamed its lack of box office success partly on that.

The film features more songs than almost any other Disney animated classic, and many were written and then removed.

Voice actress Kathryn Beaumont, who voiced Alice, also served as a live action model for the animators.

The film’s production had stalled repeatedly with initial development in the 1930s, then shelving during the Second World War, revival in 1946, and eventual completion in 1951.

Concept artist Mary Blair provided many of the bold colour ideas and stylised backgrounds for the film. Over seven hundred fifty artists worked on the film during its production period. The film used around one thousand different shades of watercolour to achieve its look.

The “Unbirthday” concept, which celebrates any day that is not your birthday, first appeared in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass.

A live action and animation hybrid version was at one time considered before they settled on full animation.

The “Doorknob” character is not present in Carroll’s original book and was added specifically for the Disney film.

The dress Alice wears, a blue dress with a white apron, became the iconic version, and many later artworks, costumes, and depictions of Alice follow that design.

The film was re-released theatrically in 1974 with a new poster and marketing directed toward the counterculture.

The ride through attraction Alice in Wonderland at Disneyland in California is the first two level dark ride at Disneyland.

The film credits include the voice actors alongside their characters, which was one of the firsts for Disney animated features.

The voice of the Mad Hatter is provided by Ed Wynn, one of the first major celebrity voices in a Disney film.

In the United States, the film was one of the early Disney animated features to be broadcast on television, appearing on the Disneyland television show in 1954.

Although Alice is often grouped with the Disney Princess line up by fans, she is not officially one of the Disney Princesses.