Alice in Wonderland (1903)
First of all, the newsletter said “Alice in Wonderland for FREE”, and then it turns out that the exact same version of the video is actually on Youtube. But hey, it never hurts to watch a legal version I guess.
At any rate, this movie was not as enjoyable as the first free movie I have seen on The Auteurs (namely “The Housemaid”), but it was a fun history lesson. “Alice in Wonderland” is the best book to make a movie out of after all, and this one is so cute in the way it’s old and people were so bad at film-making too. Compared to “A Trip to the Moon” just one year before, I think that the technique in Alice sucked a bit, even though they did quite an effort and obviously put a significant amount of money in this 10 minute long gem where all the Cheshire Cat was obviously the best actor of all of them, lol. (The cat is so great!)