Who is the first talking object Alice meets after falling?

The first talking object Alice meets after falling is the Doorknob. At the bottom of the rabbit hole, she enters a long hallway filled with doors and discovers a tiny door that can speak to her.

The Doorknob is a distinctive Disney addition to Alice’s early Wonderland sequence. Rather than merely presenting a locked entrance, the film turns the door into a character who can explain the immediate problem: Alice is too large to pass through the keyhole. He also directs her attention to the “Drink Me” bottle and later the “Eat Me” cake.

Viewers sometimes remember the White Rabbit as Alice’s first conversational encounter because she follows him into Wonderland. However, the Rabbit is not the first talking object. The Doorknob speaks before Alice reaches the Rabbit’s house, the garden, or the later talking creatures.

The Doorknob was voiced by Joseph Kearns. His patient, mildly exasperated manner provides Alice with one of the film’s earliest examples of Wonderland’s central rule: ordinary things can behave like people.