"Alice of Wonderland in Paris" doesn't have much to do with Lewis Carroll's books; indeed, this limited-animation feature has very little to do with itself. Seemingly, a connective outer narrative was created to bring together five otherwise separate cartoon shorts. Then, it was sold as a feature-length anthology film. This was still rather short for a feature, and so during its theatrical run, it was paired with another short cartoon. In the feature, Alice of Wonderland reads "Madeline" and so wants to visit Paris. She looks through the mirror, à la "Through the Looking Glass," and sees a French mouse appear. The mouse leads her to Paris after he tells the first unrelated inner story. Their trip to Paris is accomplished by Alice eating some magic cheese to make her shrink to a size able to fit through the mouse hole (as opposed to the rabbit hole of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"). The nested narratives include "Anatole," about another rodent cheese connoisseur; two Madeline stories: "Madeline and the Bad Hat" and "Madeline and the Gypsies;" and two especially-irrelevant royal fairy tales: "The Frowning Prince" and "Many Moons." Alice and the mouse take turns as storyteller. In the end, Alice discovers that Madeline of Paris is likewise reading about Alice of Wonderland. Small world, huh.
Review of Alice of Wonderland in Paris
