Psychedelics found Alice in Wonderland (1951) appealing

From wikipedia:

At the time, these creative decisions were met with great criticism from Carroll fans, as well as from British film and literary critics who accused Disney of "Americanizing" a great work of English literature.[13] Disney was not surprised by the critical reception to Alice in Wonderland – his version of Alice was intended for large family audiences, not literary critics – but despite all the long years of thought and effort, the film met with a lukewarm response at the box office and was a sharp disappointment in its initial release,[14] earning an estimated $ 2.4 million at the US box office in 1951.[15]

Though not an outright disaster, the film was never re-released theatrically in Disney's lifetime, airing instead every so often on network television. In fact, Alice in Wonderland aired as the second episode of Walt Disney's Disneyland TV series on ABC in 1954, in a severely edited version cut down to less than an hour. In The Disney Films, Leonard Maltin relates animator Ward Kimball felt the film failed because "it suffered from too many cooks – directors. Here was a case of five directors each trying to top the other guy and make his sequence the biggest and craziest in the show. This had a self-canceling effect on the final product."[16] Walt Disney himself felt that the film failed because there was no "warmth" in Alice's character.[17]

Almost two decades after its original release, after the North American success of George Dunning's animated film Yellow Submarine (1968), Disney's version of Alice in Wonderland suddenly found itself in vogue with the times. In fact, because of Mary Blair's art direction and the long-standing association of Carroll's Alice in Wonderland with the drug culture, the feature was re-discovered as something of a "head film" (along with Fantasia and The Three Caballeros) among the college-aged and was shown in various college towns across the country. Disney resisted this association, and even withdrew prints of the film from universities, but then, in 1974, Disney gave Alice in Wonderland its first theatrical re-release ever, and the company even promoted it as a film in tune with the "psychedelic" times (mostly from the hit song "White Rabbit" performed by Jefferson Airplane). This re-release was so successful it warranted a subsequent re-release in 1981. Its first UK re-release was on July 26, 1979.

Lmao.

omgosh....so many directors trying to do Alice....and failed.

five directors even, trying to TOP eachother....

it has been very strong now in the 21st century...

and the main character is a Libra sun.

and it began in 2010...

2 films were made after.

Somethingsomething MKUltra something

I heard it was used as a programming device for Manchurian Candidates

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Somethingsomething MKUltra something

I heard it was used as a programming device for Manchurian Candidates

Icke-y notion.

😄

Did you watch Stranger Things while the

Walking Dead was on hiatus?

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Posted by wagtail
Somethingsomething MKUltra something

I heard it was used as a programming device for Manchurian Candidates

Icke-y notion.

😄

Did you watch Stranger Things while the

Walking Dead was on hiatus?

click to expand

Totally Ickey yeh 😆

and yesh binge watched STs and loved it but once again couldn't help but tie it back to that shiz

Posted by wagtail

Posted by Montgomery

Posted by wagtail
Somethingsomething MKUltra something

I heard it was used as a programming device for Manchurian Candidates

Icke-y notion.

😄

Did you watch Stranger Things while the

Walking Dead was on hiatus?

Totally Ickey yeh 😆

and yesh binge watched STs and loved it but once again couldn't help but tie it back to that shiz

click to expand

Yeah.. iirc they alluded to all that weird covert

stuff the cia was involved in way back in the

60s (like they ever stopped) o____O

😛

Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland for adults readers. It was never meant to be for children.