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Alice in Wonderland, 1949.

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I'm torn in my feelings about the 1949 Lou Bunin version of Alice in Wonderland and the 1950 Spanish Cinderella adaptation Érase una vez... (which I only just watched for the first time; I wish I had known about it back when I did my Cinderella-September-Through-November project!).

I know they were both screwed over by Disney because Disney's own adaptations of the same stories were released around the same time. I know that if not for Disney, they would have been seen more widely, made more money, and been preserved in better quality prints.

But at the same time, in both cases, I feel as if the better movie won. The Bunin Alice and Érase una vez... just aren't as good as Disney's Alice and Cinderella. Yes, they have their own charms, but they're not the unjustly forgotten superior versions that their cult followings would have us believe. Maybe Disney had the advantage because of their higher budget, but still, Disney made the better movies.