The villain in this series was none other than Pete, who eventually came to be known as Peg Leg Pete as he was carried across into the Oswald cartoon series and this was really the first start in the evil cartoon.

Although Alice is seen as a very cute little girl, some of the content may be considered frightening to kids as it contained a lot of danger, perils and even kidnapping and audiences then were not as accepting as today.

One of the problems of this series was that the main characters had no real personality or developed character and the audience found it difficult to relate to them. The cartoons were just a mass of chasing and dodging the bad guy with no real personalities.

However that being said the following cartoons were produced:

1923 Alice’s Wonderland
Alice’s Day at Sea
1924 Alice Gets in Dutch
Alice Hunting In Africa
Alice’s Spooky Adventure
Alice the Toredor
Alice’s Wild West Show
Alice’s Fishy Story
Alice And The Dog Catcher
Alice The Peacemaker
Alice Gets In Dutch
Alice And The Three Bears
Alice The Piper
1925 Alice Gets Stung
Alice’s Egg Plant
Alice in the Jungle
Alice Solves the Puzzle
Alice Wins the Derby
Alice Gets Stage Struck
Alice Rattled by Rats
Alice on the Farm
Alice’s Tin Pony
Alice Chops the Suey
Alice the Jail Bird
1926 Alice’s Mysterious Mystery
Alice in the Wooly West
Alice’s Orphan
Alice’s Balloon Race
1927 Alice the Whaler

As you can see the series finished after 4 years in 1927.

Surprisingly the studio actually went bankrupt after making the first cartoon and had to raise more money to carry on. Winkler Pictures actually came to their rescue.

Margaret J. Winkler (or M. J. Winkler) was one of the key figures in silent animation history, having a crucial role to play in the histories of Max and Dave Fleischer, Pat Sullivan, Otto Messmer, and Walt Disney. She was also the first woman to produce and distribute animated films.

By the time 1927 came, Julius was made to be the hero and he was changed from a cat to a rabbit with long ears and became Oswald.

Pete the villain also changed. He was still the cigar smoker, but now he was bigger, meaner and more stupid. Sometimes he would have a wooden leg and other times it would disappear!

A Cartoon criminal basically needs 3 different people for the plot to work.

First there needs to be the villain that we all love to hate and often root for.

Next there is the hero who puts everything right in the end and makes everything nice and peaceful often at personal hardship to self.

Lastly there needs to be a victim.

The victim needs to be focused on in the film heavily as the audience has to be able to relate to them. They need a strong character even if their character is week.

The audience needs to get involved with the victim and feel sorry for them. what the victim does during the movie is what really makes the movie great. They need to search deep into their soul and reach down and get what ever it is that will save them and we can all relate to that at some time in our life.

The cartoon criminal has to rise higher to become ever more demonstrative and the victim has also to rise to the same level if not a higher level to beat them.

The problem with the cartoon criminal is that they know no bad. They no no limit and say, do and think whatever they want. Normally they have some devious plan, whilst the victim has to react to what is thrown at them until they have the strength to step back and also have time to plan.

But it takes time for the victim to do this giving the Cartoon criminal the upper hand for some time.

The hero has a difficult time when it comes to dealing with the cartoon criminal. If he lowers his standards to that of the criminal, the audience will not respect him. The hero has to live by his high standards and even if he wants to stab the villain in the back he cannot!

And of course the hero also has to protect the victim making his task doubly difficult.

Situations such as this make the hero more heroic and the adoration of all watching. Most people never get the chance to do this things in their own life so they can only sit and admire the great attributes of the hero and the struggling victim.