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The whole of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland (well, almost) in just 9 spectacular minutes, the original probably ran a bit longer as some scenes seem to be incomplete. On YouTube, in very low quality, but then I had never managed to see it:

For more information on the film and a some good comments see [...]

After writing yesterday’s post I remembered I had seen an animator break down of the Cheshire cat scene in Disney’s Alice; at last I have found it again, it was posted by Thad Komorowski of Animation ID on Dailymotion:
Alice Meets the Cheshire Cat BreakdownUploaded by thadk

If, like me, you think the Cheshire Cat scene in the Disney Alice in Wonderland is one of the best moments in the movie, don’t miss the We’re All Mad Here (more) exhibition at Gallery Nineteen Eighty Eight. You will find several paintings based on the character at their site, and more at Vinyl Pulse, [...]

One of the most common statements to be found in the frquent comparisons between Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll is that there is no proof that they knew each other’s work; for example John Lehman, in Edward Lear and His Work (1977, p. 50), writes:

One of the most interesting unanswered questions of literary history [...]

Starting on 6 June 2005 BBC Radio 4 will be broadcasting a series of programmes in which contemporary writers give a twist to Alice in Wonderland. You will be able to listen to them on the web for a week from the Programme Info page.
Still available for the next two days the broadcast for Tuesday, [...]

I have just received Justin G. Schiller Ltd.’s Spring Miscellany catalogue (no. 53) and among the many interesting items listed is an “original ink Manuscript lesson for teaching Logic, conceived in diagram format and dated by Dodgson in the upper right corner ‘5/3/94.’”

On 5 March 1894 Dodgson wrote in his diary:

Gave two Lectures in [...]

More Edward Lear on sale at Christie’s auction of the Norman and Cynthia Armour Collection of Fine Children’s Books. The galley proofs for Carroll’s “Wasp in a Wig” episode are also on sale.

An exhibition of several documents relating to his life.

A new book reveals that Carroll was not very careful with his spending

The British Library and SEMLAC present a new site on the story of the creation of Alice and her adventures