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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]