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Alice's Day at Sea

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Alice's Day at Sea
Theatrical release poster
Directed byWalt Disney
Produced byM. J. Winkler
StarringVirginia Davis, Spec O'Donnell
Animation byWalt Disney
Color processBlack and white
Production
company
Distributed byWinkler Pictures
Release date
  • March 1, 1924 (1924-03-01)
Running time
11:20
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Alice's Day at Sea is the first animated short film in Alice Comedies series that was directed by Walt Disney.[1] It is black and white and silent, and features live action segments paired with animated sequences. It is a historically significant film as it was the first project created by the Disney Brothers Studio. Established by Roy and Walt Disney in Los Angeles on October 16, 1923, they worked from a rented back office of the Holly Vermont Realty located at 4651 Kingswell Avenue. Alice's Day at Sea was delivered to distributor M.J. Winkler on December 26, 1923, but wasn't released in theaters until March 1924.

Theatrical poster

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the poster for this film was sold for $36,534 at Christie's auction, the most valuable cartoon poster of all time up until then. Since the publication of that list, the poster for The Mad Doctor (1933), starring Mickey Mouse, has sold for $138,000 at Heritage Auctions (March 2006).

Alice's Day at Sea

References

  1. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (2009). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons (3rd ed.). New York: Checkmark Books. pp. 18–19. ISBN 978-0-8160-6600-1.