One Hour in Wonderland

TV Special
1950
Unrated
59m

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

184

YOUR RATING

Kathryn Beaumont and Bobby Driscoll in One Hour in Wonderland (1950)

Comedy Family Music

Disney's first-ever TV production. Edgar Bergen takes Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd to a Christmas party thrown by Walt Disney. Clips of movies and animated shorts, including Disney's ... Read allDisney's first-ever TV production. Edgar Bergen takes Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd to a Christmas party thrown by Walt Disney. Clips of movies and animated shorts, including Disney's not yet released Alice in Wonderland, are shown via a magic mirror,Disney's first-ever TV production. Edgar Bergen takes Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd to a Christmas party thrown by Walt Disney. Clips of movies and animated shorts, including Disney's not yet released Alice in Wonderland, are shown via a magic mirror,

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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

184

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
While this program promotes Disney's upcoming film Alice in Wonderland (1951), it features three cast members from Disney's next animated film Peter Pan (1953): Bobby Driscoll (Peter Pan), Kathryn Beaumont (Wendy Darling), and Hans Conried (Captain Hook/Mr. Darling).

Goofs
During the car ride, Edgar Bergen's ventriloquism is not perfect, as his mouth can be seen moving along with Charlie McCarthy's dialogue.

Quotes
Kathryn Beaumont: Mortimer, you musn't be afraid of people. Goodness, I'm only a girl.
Mortimer Snerd: That's the worst kind.

Crazy credits
The Coca-Cola logo flashes while the credits are rolling and the announcer's voice is heard.

Alternate versions
From its original broadcast, the entire film, including the clips from Disney's cartoons and movies were in black and white, due to the original negatives of this film. On the Masterpiece Edition DVD of Alice in Wonderland (Disc 2), the whole program is still in black and white, except the cartoon and movie clips, which were collected from various color sources just for the DVD release.

Connections
Featured in Frank and Ollie (1995)

Soundtracks
Jingle Bells
(uncredited)
Music by James Pierpont
Performed by The Firehouse Five Plus Two

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Featured review

7/10

Enjoyable...and essentially a big ad along with some film clips.

"One Hour in Wonderland" is the first Disney television special...a portent of things to come. However, it's also a giant TV commercial for Coke and an upcoming Disney film ("Alice in Wonderland")...and to everyone but the kids, this will be obvious.

The show stars Edgar Bergan and Charlie McCarthy and it begins with their going to a kids party at Walt Disney's house. There you see a couple Disney properties (Kathryn Beaumont and Bobby Driscoll) as well as Disney's own two daughters among the guests. Using the Magic Mirror as a plot device, the kids all watch various Disney film clips as well as some of the soon to be released movie.

Overall, this is a very enjoyable and pleasant TV show. My only gripes are how obvious the ads are as well as the complete randomness of several of the film clips. Still, it is fun and it's also nice that the clips were still in color...even though TVs in 1950 couldn't display color. I assume this was easier than converting the clips to black & white as well as if they wanted to re-show this at a later date when, perhaps, color was the norm.

If you are interested in seeing it, it's available to view or download at archive.org.