For years I'd been assuming it'd been made in the mid-late 1960s, during the era of psychedelic, hallucinogen-inspired art.
I guess this movie was ahead of its time!
Well, some very charmed hippies would agree with you.
share"psychedelic, hallucinogen-inspired art"
Betty Boop had that in the early 1930s. Red Hot Mamma, Minnie the Moocher, The Old Man of the Mountain.
Dude! Doobie’s been around since ‘WAY before your great-granddaddy was a sperm. One of singer Cab Calloway’s hits in the 30s was titled The Reefer Man. The poet Rimbeau and the painter Van Gough both drank Absinthe, under the influence of which Van Gough cut off one of his ears. The hookah (water pipe) the caterpillar in this flick smokes goes back centuries. However, Jefferson Airplane’s signature song, White Rabbit, did, I admit, link Alice’s story forever to the era of Flower Power.
shareEr… "reefers" aren't a hallucinogen.
It really is amazing how much this brightly weird film resembles the psychedelic art of the 1960s, which was largely inspired by the use of LSD. I don't believe that LSD existed in the 1930s, or 1951, which this odd film was made.
I took 2 tabs last night and watched this for the first time. It was amazing.
shareLSD was developed in the 1930's, originally to recover from the surgical sedatives which apparently were not that good back then themselves. Psychiatrists then attempted to use it for their work in the 1950's and 1960s...and then finally the counterculture heard about it
Actually they were the last to know.
It had been around in the 'system' for quite some time. And things weren't like today re the internet. News traveled much slower unless somebody was VERY wealthy.
So yes it's quite possible Walt Disney knew about LSD