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Gulliver's Travels is a 1939 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Max Fleischer and directed by Dave Fleischer for Fleischer Studios. [3] Released to cinemas in the United States on December 22, 1939, [4] by Paramount Pictures, the story is a very loose adaptation of Jonathan Swift's 1726 novel of the same name, specifically only the first part of four, which tells the story of ...
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This strike was a test case, the first launched in the motion picture industry, and produced a nationwide boycott of Fleischer cartoons for the duration. Gulliver's Travels (1939) was Fleischer Studios' first feature-length animated production. Max Fleischer had been petitioning Paramount for three years about producing an animated feature.
Max Fleischer (born Majer Fleischer / ˈ f l aɪ ʃ ər /; July 19, 1883 – September 11, 1972) was a Polish-American animator and studio owner.Born in Kraków, Poland, Fleischer immigrated to the United States where he became a pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon and served as the head of Fleischer Studios, which he co-founded with his younger brother Dave.
Gabby Goes Fishing (1941). Gabby is a short-lived Max Fleischer animated cartoon series distributed through Paramount Pictures.Gabby debuted as the town crier in the 1939 animated feature Gulliver’s Travels produced by Fleischer.
Gulliver's Travels: December 22, 1939 — Fleischer Studios: Paramount Pictures: 76: $700,000: $3,270,000: The first animated film from Paramount Pictures, the first non-Disney animated film and the first animated film to be put in the public domain. Pinocchio: February 7, 1940 (Center Theatre) February 23, 1940 (official release) The Small One ...
Book IV of Gulliver's Travels is the keystone, in some ways, of the entire work, [citation needed] and critics have traditionally answered the question whether Gulliver is insane (and thus just another victim of Swift's satire) by questioning whether or not the Houyhnhnms are truly admirable.
During his time there he provided animation for many films, including the Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor series, Talkartoons, Screen Songs (with the famous "bouncing ball"), and the studio's first feature-length film, Gulliver's Travels. [1] In early 1939, Kneitel suffered a heart attack, and would be absent from the studio until late 1940.