July 25, 1927 – The Alice Comedy Alice the Whaler is Released to Theaters
“Thar she blows!”
On July 25, 1927, the Alice Comedy Alice the Whaler was released to theaters. This was the third to last Alice Comedy produced by the Disney Studios, and stars the fourth and final actress to play Alice, Lois Hardwick.
It’s a turbulent day at sea, but Alice and her crew are having a merry time on the ship’s deck, dancing and playing sea shanties. One of the members of the crew is doing a wonderful job miming, up to the point where, as he pretends to pull on a rope, he pulls down an anvil that lands smack on his head, which causes Alice to laugh. In the kitchen, members of the crew are hard at work, with the chef capturing the chicken trying to escape from the pot, and a mouse hard at work peeling potatoes. The mouse tries to save the dishes that keep falling out of the cupboard due to the ship’s rocking, but they end up crashing to the floor in a giant mess. When the chef sees the broken dishes, he demands that he head out to get eggs.
Alice and her crew gather to their stations when a whale is spotted nearby
The mouse stands on the top of the mast, trying to catch any of the birds that are flying past, and ends up on the back of one. He smacks it on the head to beat it into submission, and finally gets it to land on the deck. He demands that it lay eggs, but it can’t, until the mouse finds a way for it to do so. Delivering the eggs to the chef, the chef then demands that the mouse go get some milk; when he attempts to beat the mouse for his insubordination, the chef ends up breaking the eggs. The mouse goes to the goat to milk her, but the rocking of the boat makes this a rather difficult task, until the mouse nails the goat’s feet to the floor. Julius, Alice’s feline friend, spots whales frolicking in the waves, and everyone quickly sets to work. The harpoon is let loose, and the whale leaps in pain as it gets caught on the tail. Unfortunately for the crew, the short ends with the ship being dragged across the ocean by the whale.
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