![]() Definitely stick with the Dolby Digital track. I can't be too picky given the original material's age. There's no real oomph from brass instruments. The music is somewhat lacking on the low end. The music is well mixed with the voices and singing, so nothing overpowers any other audio element. It's very easy, even with some of the heavier British accents used. That's not to say it isn't clean and easy to understand. There is a wee bit of separation from the center channel for the music, but even that isn't striking. While they attempted to make a Dolby Digital soundtrack, we are talking about a recording from 1951. Score: 10 out of 10 Languages and Audio Alice in Wonderland is available with its original mono soundtrack or English, French or Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 audio, with closed captioning in English. I saw no aliasing errors around the many, many curves in the film, either. Fullscreen animation films frequently suffer from interlacing errors during horizontal pans, but there is none of that. Reds can have the most trouble on video and are most prone to dot crawl, but here, everything is steady and solid. This is, as you can imagine, an extremely colorful movie, and when we get to the Queen of Hearts segments, the video is overwhelmingly red. Only in the very beginning, in the opening shot, did I notice a little flicker. Old animated flicks like this can suffer from serious flicker, like Sleeping Beauty did, but this is all steady. All of the colors are rich and sharp and steady. It's every bit as good as the restoration work done on last year's Sleeping Beauty. The Video Presented in 1.33:1 fullscreen format, this is a solid, beautifully restored print completely free of any hints of dust, flicker, fade or color bleed. This Masterpiece Edition, however, is a major upgrade and well worth it. Alice in Wonderland was released on DVD in 2000, with a few extras. In some ways, I found that rather remarkable. ![]() Alice emerges from her trip essentially the same person and she reacts to all of the strangeness of her trip without batting an eye. ![]() Carroll's own history aside, Alice in Wonderland is a trippy, odd little movie, notable because its heroine isn't on a journey of growth and discovery like, say, Simba in The Lion King. I found conflicting stories all over the Net. Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, suffered from terrible migraines and used opium to alleviate the pain. Well, if that isn't a perfect time for the film I don't know what is. It was never released theatrically in his lifetime, although it did finally get a re-release during the psychedelic 1970s. Walt himself even publicly cut it down after some critical comments. First released in 1951, Alice in Wonderland has become something of a second-string Disney animated feature. It is worth it if you are a student of animation history or just a Disney fan. Some folks, however, will only care about the technical aspects, so I'll dispense with the audio, video and extras, and then if you so choose, you can read his whole treatise. ![]()
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