Alice Comedies

Alice and the Knaughty Knight is Released

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 Knaughty Knight, the 48th Alice Comedy released, Pete, dressed in a suit of armor, steals away the object of Julius the cat’s affection. In an attempt to win her back, Julius fashions his own makeshift suit of armor using mostly junk that he finds lying around. Alice and the Knaughty Knight was released on May 2, 1927, and is today considered to be a lost cartoon.