Released between 1924 and 1927, Alice Comedies are a series of 56 silent, black and white cartoons that feature a live girl, Alice, acting in Cartoonland. Walt sent out the unfinished pilot film, Alice’s Wonderland, to various cartoon distributors in New York, and one of them, Margaret Winkler, agreed to distribute the series with payment beginning at $1,500 per reel. The pilot film was created in Kansas City, and all 56 of the remaining films in the series were made in Hollywood. In the seven minute animated short Alice and the Three Bears, a family of bears is happily, and busily, cooking when Baby Bear realizes he is missing one ingredient — hops. Determined to finish his brew, Baby Bear runs off to retrieve some hops, which he believes comes from frogs. While he is attempting to locate some frogs, Alice and her cat, Felix, stumble into the Bears’ home, where they quickly climb up onto the kitchen table. It is there they are caught by Mother and Father Bear, and, needless to say, chaos ensues. Alice and the Three Bears was released on December 1, 1924.
