 Walt Disney (qv) had considered doing a feature film of this story  for years. During the very early part of his career, throughout the  1920s, Walt Disney (qv) created a number of shorts with a live  action Alice placed in an animated world. Walt Disney (qv)  continued to make this series, generally referred to as "The Alice  Comedies", which were all silent, right up to time he made  _Steamboat Willie (1928)_ (qv).