Released between 1924 and 1927, the 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 eight-minute animated short Alice Gets in Dutch, released on this day in 1924, Alice, played by Disney Legend Virginia Davis, is caught making mischief in class and is ordered to the corner of the classroom with a dunce cap squarely upon her head. As she sits there, bored and bushed, Alice begins daydreaming about running around with an assortment of animals before her teacher calls upon an army of books to subjugate them.
