Alice in Wonderland Trivia and Goofs
Trivia
Kathryn Beaumont, who was the voice of Alice, narrates the "Alice in Wonderland" ride at Disneyland.
Sterling Holloway, who performed the voice of the Cheshire Cat, played the Frog in the 1933 version of Alice in Wonderland (1933).
The first Disney animated feature in which the voice talent is credited on-screen with the characters they each play. This would not occur again until The Jungle Book
In the Walrus and the Carpenter sequence, the R in the word "March" on the mother oyster's calendar flashes. This alludes to the old adage about only eating oysters in a month with an R in its name. That is because those months without an R are the summer months, when oysters would not keep due to the heat, in the days before refrigeration.
Originally, Alice was to sing a song different from "In a World of My Own". It would be a slow ballad entitled "Beyond the Laughing Sky", and it was a song about Alice dreaming of a new world, a world better than her own, very much in the spirit of Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939). However, Kathryn Beaumont had difficulty singing, and it was decided that starting the film off with a slow ballad would be a little risky on audiences. The song we hear today, "In a World of My Own", is livelier, and was easier for Kathryn Beaumont to sing.
Goofs
At the beginning of the movie, Lewis Carroll's name is spelled incorrectly on the animated title page.
At the start of the film, Alice is sitting on a tree branch as her sister sits at the base of the tree reading aloud, but when Alice wakes up at the end of the film, she is sitting in her sister's spot and her sister is standing up.
The Queen yells at Alice, "Your Way!" and Alice falls down. As she hits the ground, her right hand and part of her dress disappear for a few frames.
While Alice sings her line in "In the Golden Afternoon," the pansies behind her can be seen singing along, yet only Alice's voice is heard.
When Alice eats the cookie in the White Rabbit's house and grows, she says, "Oh, no, no, not again!" Alice's mouth does not move to these words.
During the Mad Tea Party, the Mad Hatter cuts the March Hare's teacup in half. A few frames later, the teacup is cut in half the other way.
The Caterpillar's colors are reversed when he says "Keep your temper." Normally, his body is blue-violet and his belly is light blue, but for that shot the body is light blue and the belly is blue-violet.
When Alice is crawling out of the White Rabbit's house after being shrunk, the door is shut. When she runs to the step, the door is open.
At the beginning of "Golden Afternoon" when the Rose says, "Sound your A, Lily," the note the Lily sings is not an A, it is a B flat.
When the Caterpillar changes, he loses his arms and legs. During the chase scene at the end of the picture, when Alice swims up to him on his floating mushroom, his arms and legs are back.