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00:00 (gentle music)

00:02 - Ladies and gentlemen, this afternoon,

00:10 we are gathered here to celebrate

00:12 the genius of Lewis Carroll.

00:15 On this, the centenary of his birth.

00:18 A celebration honored by the presence,

00:21 the grace of Alice Purcell.

00:25 (audience applauding)

00:28 - When you hear that, you realize

00:30 that when Lewis Carroll first told the story

00:31 to 70 years ago.

00:33 - She's arriving in New York tomorrow morning

00:34 on the Beringeria.

00:36 Columbia are gonna give her an honorary degree.

00:38 - Get her.

00:39 - Any old dame who fell down a rabbit hole

00:42 and sat down to tea with a mad hatter

00:43 is gonna cheer me up.

00:45 - Let alone our readers.

00:46 - When I was a little girl,

00:48 - Dream child. - Collared fighting rabbit.

00:50 - The true story of the real Alice.

00:53 And Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll.

00:56 - I am.

00:58 - You will always cherish it, Alice.

01:01 - The most wonderful thing that has ever happened.

01:03 I shall read it again and again and again.

01:05 And I shall start at the last page

01:07 and finish at the first.

01:08 - A moving story.

01:11 From jazz age New York to Victorian Oxford.

01:14 - Have you thought about whom you might like to marry?

01:20 - But why on earth should he say that to you?

01:22 - Because he loves me, of course.

01:26 It's an emotion which has always frightened me.

01:30 And I can always recognize it when I see it.

01:33 - I wouldn't change one hair of your head.

01:35 - Dream child is Dennis Potter's brilliant picture

01:38 of childhood innocence and the pressures of the new world.

01:42 But was it a dream?

01:45 Or was it reality?

01:48 - What day of the month is it?

01:52 What day of the month is it?

01:54 What is it?

01:56 - Carl Brown as the 80 year old Alice.

01:59 - Flowers remind me of death, you know.

02:03 - Ian Holm as the inspired storyteller.

02:06 - It was time for Alice to have some tea.

02:08 - Jane Asher as Alice's mother.

02:12 - Say you're sorry at once.

02:14 - What really happened in that long lost Victorian summer?

02:18 Was it the wonderland we can never forget?

02:21 Or did the looking glass reflect a different picture?

02:24 - I say that now, at long, long last.

02:27 Thank you, Mr. Dodson.

02:32 ♪ Will you watch ♪

02:33 - Thornium Eye presents Dream Child,

02:36 the revealing story of Lewis Carroll

02:39 and the girl who was Alice.

02:42 ♪ Will you watch and join the dance ♪

02:47 (music fades)

02:49 [BLANK_AUDIO]

Dreamchild | movie | 1985 | Official Trailer

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