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 six-minute animated short Alice the Whaler, Alice and Julius board a whaling ship where they must deal with a temperamental cook as well as harpooning a whale. Alice the Whaler was released on this day in 1927.
