After “Fantasia” (1940) and “The Three Caballeros” (1944), Walt Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland” (1951) completed the studio’s unofficial psychedelic trilogy. Only moderately successful on its first release, the animated “Alice” came into its own with a 1974 re-issue that appealed to an audience with an appreciation for hookah-smoking caterpillars and mushrooms that, with a nod to the Jefferson Airplane’s 1967 hit “Go Ask Alice,” have the power to make you feel 10 feet tall.

Although “Alice” was released on DVD last year to take advantage of Disney’s new, live-action version, directed by Tim Burton, the Blu-ray edition was released last week, and with its tight definition and accurately rendered colors, it was worth the wait. The film is nothing if not a brilliant showcase for the colorist and designer Mary Blair, one of the great practitioners of midcentury modernism. (Her Sistine Chapel remains the “It’s a Small World” ride at Disneyland.)

Because of budget cutbacks that diminished the possibility of defining personalities through meticulous, frame-by-frame animation, “Alice in Wonderland” was one of the first Disney features to rely on recognizable celebrity voices to establish characters. But this is surely one of the most accomplished voice casts ever assembled. Apart from the Wagnerian bellowing of Verna Felton’s Queen of Hearts, the film’s creepy, hushed tone can be attributed to the deftly stylized work of Sterling Holloway as the Cheshire Cat and the supremely supercilious Richard Haydn as the Caterpillar, an early texter, who spells out his words — “Who R U?” — as he exhales them.

‘Alice in Wonderland’

Cost: Blu-ray/DVD combo edition $39.99, DVD $29.99,

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