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Walt Disney's animated color film Alice in Wonderland (RKO Radio) is booked into Manhattan's Criterion Theater...
...premiere Aug. i. Six days earner, Producer Lou Bunin's French-made puppet & live-action Alice in Wonderland (released through Souvaine Selective Pictures) is slated for its U.S. opening in two of Exhibitor Harry Brandt's Manhattan movie houses. Last week, after months of ominous rumbling, Disney and Souvaine entered into battle. Claimed Disney: Bunin's "inferior" Alice would deceive the public into going to see the wrong picture, thus spoiling his nice new Alice's box-office take. In good Tweedledee fashion, Souvaine retorted: Contrariwise...
...public domain, making Alice fair game for any moviemaker. Disney announced his project in 1945, at about the time Bunin had the same idea. Bunin moved faster and held a 1949 premiere in Paris. In the U.S., Disney had gained an edge in 1938 by registering his Alice in Wonderland title with the Motion Picture Association of America...
...Souvaine outfit blandly replied: "Actually, it is healthy for the industry to have two entirely different conceptions of a beloved classic appearing at approximately the same time . . . We believe that the public is entitled to see either one or both. We doubt that the name 'Alice in Wonderland' is any better known now than it was before Mr. Disney began his expensive exploitation...
...machinery for lost bodies"), the tourists split up into groups, each with its own guide resplendent in colored waistcoat and checked cap. The tourists had lunch at the Golden Cross Inn, saw such sights as the place in the Christ Church library where Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland, ended the day with tea and Mozart in an undergraduate room...