18 cartoons tagged Alice Comedies
15 Feb 1926 00:07:00
Dogs are vanishing from the cartoon town, and Alice and Julius the cat turn detective to find out why. The trail leads to a villain who is kidnapping the dogs, hauling them off in a wagon and turning them into sausages in a factory, a dark joke of a kind common in 1920s cartoons.
01 Mar 1924 00:07:00
On a sunny morning Alice, a real girl played by Virginia Davis, goes to the beach with her dog. She meets an old sailor and asks if he has ever been shipwrecked; he tells her about the time a giant octopus attacked his ship.
12 Jul 1925 00:07:00
Alice is stuck on a hard crossword puzzle, so Julius the cat suggests the beach. After a swim the two dry off and Alice goes back to the puzzle, and the trouble begins: Bootleg Pete, a huge bear-like crook who collects rare crosswords, recognises hers as the one missing from his collection and…
01 Jul 1924 00:07:00
Alice and her gang of kids have formed a club with their dogs, and the local dog catcher is their enemy.
01 Nov 1924 00:10:00
Alice is in trouble at school. Caught misbehaving by a stern schoolmistress, she is made to stand in the corner in a dunce's cap, and there she falls asleep and dreams.
15 Jan 1925 00:07:00
Alice and Julius the cat set themselves up as bullfighters in a cartoon Spain, with a peaceful old steer as their "bull", the idea being to look brave without any risk.
15 Nov 1925 00:07:00
Alice goes out and leaves Julius the cat in charge of the house, with orders to keep the rats down.
18 Apr 1927 00:07:00
Alice and Julius the cat run a circus. The film is a parade of circus turns gone wrong: the animals in the ring, the acrobats, the strongman, the trapeze, each act becoming a gag as the drawn performers misbehave and Julius has to step in, and a finale in which the big top itself comes down.
18 Oct 1926 00:07:00
Alice is the chief of a cartoon fire brigade whose crew is made up of Julius the cat and a company of lookalike cats.
15 Sep 1925 00:07:00
Alice and Julius the cat steal a pie, are caught by the law and sentenced to the rock pile.
04 Oct 1926 00:07:00
A western. Alice and Julius the cat are travelling by stagecoach through a cartoon frontier when the outlaw Pete and his gang hold up the coach.
01 Feb 1925 00:08:00
Alice and Julius the cat go hunting. Their quarry is a wily rabbit who makes fools of them both, and in pursuit of it they come across a succession of other animals, ending with a bear.
01 May 1924 00:08:00
Alice and her friends put on a Wild West show in a barn for the neighbourhood kids, with Alice as the star performer.
01 Apr 1924 00:07:00
A gang of children are playing ball when it goes through the window of the neighbourhood haunted house. Nobody dares go in except Alice, played by the five-year-old Virginia Davis.
15 Dec 1925 00:07:00
Alice and Julius the cat are on safari in a cartoon Africa. The jungle is full of comic animals, elephants, monkeys, hippos and a lion, and the film is a string of encounters in which the two explorers are chased, tricked and rescued by turns, with Julius's elastic tail and Alice's nerve getting…
15 Jan 1926 00:07:00
Alice and Julius the cat enter a balloon race against a field of cartoon rivals, chief among them the villainous Pete, who means to win by any means.
01 Dec 1924 00:07:00
A cartoon retelling of Goldilocks with Alice in the title role, and a reworking of Disney's own Laugh-O-Gram version of two years earlier.
13 Dec 1926 00:07:30
Plot documentation for this late Alice Comedy is thin, and this summary is based on the surviving film. The title points to a horse race, a derby, and the cartoon is set around a racetrack and its stables. Julius the Cat, Alice's animated partner, is in charge of getting their horse into shape.
