Alice In Wonderland Movie Restored After 97 years!

This film, the first ever adaption of Lewis Carroll's tale, was released in 1903. The novel itself came out 37 years beforehand and this film was released 8 years after the birth of cinema.........so, I'm taking a wild guess that the film wasn't released in IMAX 3D with the latest in CGI or even "typical" camera technology!

The film itself was 12 minutes long but due to the fact that only 1 print exists and it's almost a century old it was in shite condition, with only 8 minutes restored. Heh, 12 minute movie, you say? Well, back then that was the longest produced film in England.

BFI National Archive, who held the last print of the movie, finally restored what they could and released it earlier this year.

Naturally, it's still in iffy condition but it's quite bizzare to see a movie so old. There's something charming and creepy about the film in equal measures!