The Hello and welcome to Disney Story Origins episode 7A Alice in Wonderland, Part 1. Mr. Oh, On July 4th, 1862, 10 year old Alice Liddell and her sisters Ena and Edith set out from Folly Bridge in a rowboat with 30 year old Charles

Lutwich Dodson and a friend of his a Trinity College Don called Robinson Duckworth along the

Isis for a picnic of Godstown.

During their trip, Alice asked him to tell them a story,

and in his vast imagination,

he conjured up a whimsical tale about a young girl named Alice

who followed a white rabbit down a rabbit hole.

Alice loved it so much.

She begged him to write it down for her,

and his improvised yarn would become Alice's Adventures underground, which would then become a classic of nonsense

literature, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

And if you listen to Supplemental Number 4, the True Origin of Alice, you already know the backstory to all that.

The manuscript Louis Carroll presented to young Alice is rather different from the classic

we know today.

Alice's Adventures Underground is only four chapters long, but it includes most of the content from

Wonderland, noticeably absent, are the Mad Tea Party and the trial. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland came out from McMillan in 1865 under the pseudonym Louis Carroll.

Through the looking glass and what Alice found there followed in 1871, the two works are among the most popular children's

books in the English language, and like the best children's stories, they're also loved by

adults.

The history of Walt Disney's association with Lewis Carroll books stretches all the way back to his childhood.

Like many children of the time, he was familiar with the Alice stories and had read them as a young boy.

In 1923, when Disney was a 21-year-old fledgling filmmaker trying to make a name for himself,

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