This is an educational, semi-industrial U.S. government sponsored film springing from an anti-drug genre common to the late 1960s-early 1970s. Supposed to warn young people off drugs, it serves the message up with attractive and well made psychedelic visuals that only serve to subvert the stated purpose and intention. Most remarkable is the integration of black and white stills of the actress speaking the dialog that is animated along with the cels; how did they do that? Through photos printed on reversal film? Anyway, "Curious Alice" is about as technically secure and as imaginative as classroom films ever got; the synthesizer track -- which may be a composite of music from more than one source -- is a pioneering bit of synch that's among the first of its kind. But one downside is that, as an adaptation of the literary classic by Lewis Carroll, it is poor and tasteless. They are not outwardly trying to transmit Carroll's work, but they do as the writer pulls a little too much out of the source to establish it as a wholly independent work. The song "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane with its exhortation to "feed your head" was a likely stimulus for this film, as it was for other projects that warned against recreational drug use. As a purely visual and audio phenomenon, "Curious Alice" is so extraordinary that it belongs to the canon of the avant-garde, but as message it is too mixed, and were I a teacher in 1968 I would not have shown it to any class of students; it's just too irresponsible.