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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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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. Paramount vetoed his proposals until the proven success of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Paramount now wanted an animated feature for a ...
Gulliver's Travels, originally Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire [1] [2] by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre.
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 ...
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Outside Gulliver's Travels, Swift had expressed longstanding concern over the corruption of the English language, and he had proposed language reform. He had also, in Battle of the Books and in general in A Tale of a Tub , expressed a preference for the Ancients (Classical authors) because their art was based directly upon nature, and not upon ...