<P> Izumi Yukimura sang her own theme song for the Japanese release of the film . </P> <P> The song, "In a World of My Own," is included on the orange disc of Classic Disney: 60 Years of Musical Magic . </P> <P> At the time, these creative decisions were met with great criticism from Carroll fans, as well as from British film and literary critics who accused Disney of "Americanizing" a great work of English literature . Disney was not surprised by the critical reception to Alice in Wonderland--his version of Alice was intended for large family audiences, not literary critics--but despite all the long years of thought and effort, the film met with a lukewarm response at the box office and was a sharp disappointment in its initial release, earning an estimated $2.4 million at the US box office in 1951 . </P> <P> Though not an outright disaster, the film was never re-released theatrically in Disney's lifetime, airing instead every so often on network television . In fact, Alice in Wonderland aired as the second episode of Walt Disney's Disneyland TV series on ABC in 1954, in a severely edited version cut down to less than an hour . In The Disney Films, Leonard Maltin relates animator Ward Kimball felt the film failed because "it suffered from too many cooks--directors . Here was a case of five directors each trying to top the other guy and make his sequence the biggest and craziest in the show . This had a self - canceling effect on the final product ." Walt Disney himself felt that the film failed because there was no "warmth" in Alice's character . </P>

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