“I think that Walt Disney didn't quite understand Lewis Carroll,” animator Lou Bunin has commented. “He ignored some of the best situations and best lines.” Bunin's Alice in Wonderland recreates Carroll's world with small animated puppets set on film to meet the size of a real-life Alice (British actress Carol Marsh). It was released the same week in July of 1951 as the Disney version, met with rave reviews, and was then left to languish in near obscurity for some thirty years. The story of the two Alices is the story of power politics in Hollywood. Chain theaters, bowing to a bright Disney future, refused to play Bunin's version and Technicolor likewise would not process it, leaving Bunin with the inferior Ansco process. Bunin, now in his eighties, hopes to restore the film's true colors and sound on video cassette versions, but the film opening tonight at the York Theater is the last known print of a rare gem.