Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels (1939)

Timing: 1:16 (76 min)

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Release date

1939-11-10

Country

United States

Production

Paramount, Fleischer Studios

Genre

Animation, Family, Action, Adventure

Budget

$700 000

Revenue

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Director

Dave Fleischer

Actors

Lanny Ross, Sam Parker, Pinto Colvig, Jack Mercer, Cal Howard, Tedd Pierce, Livonia Warren, Jessica Dragonette, Max Smith, Gus Wicke
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Scenario

Jonathan Swift, Edmond Seward

Producer

Max Fleischer

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• Over 700 artists hand-painted the cartoon for 18 months. 12 tons of paint and 39,000 pencils were used. If the storyboard were laid out sheet by sheet, it would create a strip 27 miles long.
• This is the first feature-length animated film created by the independent studio "Fleischer Studios"; before this, only "Walt Disney Pictures" had created full-length cartoons.
• A new and, at the time, the most progressive "rotoscoped" technology was used in production – a method where a live actor, in this case Gulliver himself, was filmed first, and then the resulting image was traced by an animator, creating a very realistically moving picture. This animation method was actively used for many years in the USSR as well.
• Screenwriter Cal Howard served as the prototype for Prince David.
• The film was so successful that it was shown in theaters until the 1960s.
• Sam Parker was chosen from over 500 applicants for the role of Gulliver.