{"id":10315,"date":"2019-07-26T10:04:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T06:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=10315"},"modified":"2019-07-26T17:33:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T13:33:56","slug":"on-this-day-1951-walt-disneys-animated-film-alice-in-wonderland-premieres-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/on-this-day-1951-walt-disneys-animated-film-alice-in-wonderland-premieres-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"On this day 1951 Walt Disney&#8217;s animated film, Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/alice.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/alice.jpg 600w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/alice-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/alice-190x100.jpg 190w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/alice-280x147.jpg 280w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/alice-445x234.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption> <strong>Walt Disney and Kathryn Beaumont (Voice actress for Walt Disney\u2019s Alice in Wonderland)<\/strong> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sixty-eight years ago, on July 26, 1951, Walt Disney\u2019s long-awaited animated fantasy Alice in Wonderland was unveiled to audiences with a premiere at the Leicester Square Theatre in London. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walt Disney\nalways has been fond of Lewis Carroll\u2019s books. He once said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>No story in English literature has intrigued me more than Lewis Carroll\u2019s Alice in Wonderland. It fascinated me the first time I read it as a schoolboy, and as soon as I possibly could, after I started making animated cartoons, I acquired the film rights to it.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walt Disney\nloved the Alice books, probably because Lewis Carroll appreciated childhood,\nwith which Disney totally agreed. He also once said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Too many people grow up. That\u2019s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don\u2019t remember what it\u2019s like to be 12 years old. They patronise, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won\u2019t do that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alice in Wonderland Behind The Scenes - Live Action Reference (1951) HD\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LWwO-h7ZSlw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:28% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"304\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/9781784871598.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/9781784871598.jpg 304w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/9781784871598-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/9781784871598-190x312.jpg 190w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/9781784871598-280x460.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:left\">Alice&#8217;s Adventures in Wonderland<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The story centres on Alice, a young girl who falls asleep in a meadow and dreams that she follows the White Rabbit\u00a0down a rabbit hole. She has many wondrous, often bizarre adventures with thoroughly illogical and very strange creatures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Price: \u00a0<\/strong><del><strong>18.50<\/strong><\/del><strong>\u00a0\u2013 8.50 Gel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bookshop:<\/strong>&nbsp;#14 Chavchavadze Ave\n\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 27%\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"276\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/9780241331620.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/9780241331620.jpg 276w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/9780241331620-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/9780241331620-190x296.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:left\">Alice&#8217;s Adventures in Wonderland<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The story centres on Alice, a young girl who falls asleep in a meadow and dreams that she follows the White Rabbit\u00a0down a rabbit hole. She has many wondrous, often bizarre adventures with thoroughly illogical and very strange creatures.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Price: \u00a0<\/strong><del><strong>34.00<\/strong><\/del><strong>\u00a0\u2013 25.00 Gel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bookshop:<\/strong>&nbsp;#14 Chavchavadze Ave \n\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty-eight years ago, on July 26, 1951, Walt Disney\u2019s long-awaited &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","cat_1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10315"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10362,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10315\/revisions\/10362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}