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The Doll's House
1960 · Film
Directed by Sonia Gorelic-Carson
Black and White 16mm UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. When the Bendell girls receive a Doll's House as a gift, they share in the pleasures of the miniatures with their classmates. Yet, The Doll's House reveals the class divides between the Bendell girls' upper-class friends and the poor Kelvie Children, who are forbidden to play with the other girls. Set in the early 1900s, the film captures class divisions though the lens of girlhood and play.
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As the wikipedia article notes, this is based off the movie, and not the comic.
The comic didn't evolve a storyline per se for quite some time; there's very little continuity between pages. It is also, do note, a full-page comic. The artwork is fantastic and beautiful, with a particular excellence in linework and architecture. There is somewhat of a homage in Gaiman's Sandman series at various times, notably in The Doll's House.
One curious element is the highly racist (to modern sensibilities) depiction of an african child, one of Nemo's companions. For some reason he didn't make the film.
Little Nemo ran under two or three different headings and had a hiatus in publishing concurrent with a switch of publications. In my opinion the quality went downhill towards the later years. On the whole, the comic has a compelling and uniquely unreal quality to it; I recommend it highly. As they were originally published about 100 years ago, the copyright should be expired: I believe at any rate that the comic is available on the torrent network of your choice.
The film was a decent bit of animation, and the story largely dispenses with the plot of the comic. That is actually to the good; a more literal translation I feel would have been impossible. The only flaw I might single out would be the relative weakness of its musical numbers: if Disney had not made it necessary for any animated film to have songs, it is doubtful that anyone would have thought to add them. On the whole, while it is quite excellent on its own merits, it falls somewhat short of Windsor McKay's mastery of sequential art.
The film seems to be available on Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/watch/257552