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Alice lands safely and continues to chase the White Rabbit, emerging into a long corridor lined with doors. The effect of the corridor extending into the distance is achieved quite simply with a painted backdrop. Not terribly convincing but this was in the days before computer-generated scenery was commonplace. The story continues with Alice shrinking from the effects of the "drink me" bottle, and then growing oversize with the "eat me" cake.
The effect of the size changes are done using the 'chroma-key' technique, whereby the performer is filmed against a blue screen (or in this case it would have been green so that Alice's blue dress wouldn't be confused with the blue background) and the camera moved backwards or forwards to make the image change in size. This film is then combined with a static shot of the scenery. The coloured screen doesn't show up and the result is that the background remains the same but Alice appears to shrink (or grow).
As Alice shrinks once more, she slips into the pool of tears and finds herself swimming along with the mouse (played by Davy Kaye).
Alice and the mouse reach dry land where the Caucus Race takes place. Alice meets the White Rabbit again, looking for his fan and gloves. Fiona Fullerton and Michael Crawford perform a duet at this point, called "The Last Word Is Mine". The words for this song are pretty much Alice's speech in the original story, where she muses that she "can't be Mabel".
The conversation gets around to the demand for gloves and fan, and she runs off to his cottage to find them. Of course, she makes the mistake of tasting another "drink me" bottle which makes her grow too large to leave the cottage. There's a nice combination of blue screen and miniature sets here.
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