He was commissioned by Walt Disney in 1945 to write a script based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the biography of the story's author, Lewis Carroll.
hiː wʌz kəmˈɪʃənd baɪ wˈɔlt dˈɪzni ɪn nˈaɪntiːnhˈʌndɹɪd fˈoːɹɾi fˈaɪv tə ɹˈaɪt ɐ skɹˈɪpt bˈeɪst ˌɔn ˈælɪsᵻz ɐdvˈɛntʃɚz ɪn wˈʌndɚlənd ænd ðə baɪˈɑːɡɹəfi ʌvðə stˈoːɹiz ˈɔːθɚ, lˈuːɪs kˈæɹoʊl.