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lice appeared
in the "Alice Comedies," a series of 56 silent cartoons made by Walt Disney between 1924 and 1927, with a live girl
acting in Cartoonland. Walt first hired six-year-old Virginia Davis and then Dawn O'Day, Margie Gay, and Lois
Hardwick to be the little Alice romping in a cartoon world. Enthusiastically, he sent out the first unfinished
pilot film, "Alice's Wonderland," to cartoon distributors in New York. One of them, Margaret Winkler, agreed to
distribute the series, with payment beginning at $1,500 per reel. The pilot film was made in Kansas City; all 56
of the remaining films in the series were made in Hollywood. Miss Winkler married Charles Mintz, and he continued
to deal with Walt Disney until 1927, when Walt tired of combining live action and animation and Disney switched
instead to the "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit" series.
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