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This is well cool. The BFI (British Film Institute) have managed to restore and capture most of the oldest version of Alice in Wonderland ever made.
First shown in 1903 it currently stands at a whacking 107 years old! Sadly some of it was lost, leaving 8 of the original 12 minutes of footage still extant and watchable. Reading up on it it seems that the film was made some 8 years after the birth of cinema (which is pretty cool..) and because of the abnormal length of the reel in both time and physical dimensions (a grand total of 800 feet of film) it was regularly shown in parts rather than all together. Lots more info available at the BFI homepage

Imagine what they could have done if they’d had today’s monstrous 2-3 hour long efforts
And here she is in all her centenary glory!!

As a lover of both cheesy 80’s movies, and cheesy 80’s cartoons, and of course the 80’s overall, I have recently been watching some of the old classics again, like He-Man: Masters of the Universe and Willow, and to my nostalgic delight I discovered that He-Man’s miniscule sidekick Gwildor and his eminence the  High Aldwyn are in fact one and the same person: Billy Barty. God bless ye Billy. You are a legend….

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