Alice in Wonderful

My intention was talked about one o my favorites films when I was little, "Alice in Wonderful" and, searching some information about this film, I have found something very interesting and very special!

Living in an age where most of the work is done through a computer, makes us forget that it hasn't been that way always, not many years ago, all used to be done by hand. Nowadays all is very simple and easy but before it wasn't. Let's put the example of the Disney movies. The Disney company have created a lot of movies based on drawings made by hand. Before, create a character involves a very hard work by many people and they have to lean on they imagination and creativity and use unconventional tools. But nowadays, it has changed: a drawer can make everything with a computer in an easy way.

Anyway, what I would like to talk today is not about the chance in the cartoon industry, I would like to talk about the character of Alice of the film "Alice in Wonderland". This character required a real model so, in this case, we can say that Alicia is real, not only in the imagination of the drawer but in the real life.

Some days ago were released some pictures never seen before of the animation process of the films Alice in Wonderful in 1951. With this film, the drawers decided to try a new technique that consisted in taking pictures to a model and then, make the draws by pencil upon the pictures and, in this way, create the animations.

The model was Kathryn Beaumont, a 10 years old girl that gave life to Alicia's character. The main majority of the scenes of the pictures were recreated in the study with differents decorations. All of this supposed a really hard work because they only get 23 or 24 seconds of film by week and for this, this is considered one of the most special animations of the Disney Company and they decided not to do it again: the final costs outweigh the budgets. Even so, we could say that it worth because the movie was highly successful and in fact, Kathryn Beaumont did Wendy's voice in Peter Pan film, in 1998 was nominated "Disney Legend", in 2010 she did the voice of Kairi in the video game "Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep" and repeated this role in 2013 for the continuation of this video game: "Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX." This fact has surprised me a lot because my older brother loved this video games, he used to play with it a lot and we didn't have any idea of this! And she continued playing Alicia and Wendy's roles in differents performances in Disney Land and she also had appeared in some advertisements until 2005, when she was replaced by Hynden Walch. But even having this curriculum in the "acting world", Kathryn  work as a teacher in a primary school for over 30 years.