Word: tenniel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part with a rare first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for $3,696. The Duke's volume is one of the few remaining of the 2,000 original copies withdrawn after printing in 1865 because Lewis Carroll objected to the reproduction quality of the Tenniel illustrations...
Disney's $3,900,000 Technicolored version draws on both Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, skips many of Alice's adventures, reshuffles others and caricatures most of its cast of 31 Carroll characters until they look more like Disney creations than the original Sir John Tenniel drawings that inspired them. Only the most unyielding Alice cultists would begrudge Disney an adapter's liberties, even when he feels forced to omit some favorite passages and characters, e.g., the White Knight, Humpty Dumpty. But Disney's liberties betray the tone and spirit of the original. The mock...