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A World War II gremlin-themed industrial safety poster. A gremlin is a mischievous fictional creature invented at the beginning of the 20th century to originally explain malfunctions in aircraft, and later in other machinery, processes, and their operators. Depictions of these creatures vary widely.
The "Gremlin Special" was a Douglas C-47 Skytrain. A Waco CG-4 was used in the rescue attempt. The first glider sustained damage from low flight over trees and a whipping parachute that was snagged on takeoff. A second CG-4 was used for the remaining two rescues.
The Lego Batman Movie features gremlins from the film Gremlins attacking a plane. In the Futurama episode "I Dated a Robot", the main characters watch a TV show entitled The Scary Door, which features a gremlin damaging a plane along with parodies of other story-lines from The Twilight Zone. In the season 7 episode, “Zapp Dingbat,” Zapp ...
Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II is a 2011 non-fiction book by American author Mitchell Zuckoff about a US military airplane called "The Gremlin Special", which crashed on May 13, 1945 in Netherlands New Guinea, and the subsequent rescue of the survivors. [1]
Fifinella was a female gremlin designed by Walt Disney for a proposed film from Roald Dahl's book The Gremlins. During World War II, the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) asked permission to use the image as their official mascot, and the Disney Company granted them the rights. [1] [2]
In a prologue to Shadow in the Cloud, an animated training film from the United States Army Air Forces depicts the havoc a gremlin can produce for the unwary or complacent airman during wartime. When the film continues, the gremlin—a metaphor for problems caused by inattention and/or negligence—is depicted as a living, malevolent creature. [16]
Among the recognizable gremlins are Leon Schlesinger (who is shown tapping the heads off of rivets with a hammer as he is being raised by a rope), [4] Bob Clampett (shown nude with a pickaxe), Friz Freleng (the little green gremlin sawing), Chuck Jones (the fat blonde haired gremlin who nearly hits Freleng with a mallet), Michael Maltese, Bob ...
The Gremlins is a children's novel written by British author Roald Dahl and published in 1943. [1] In writing the book, Dahl draws on his own experience as a Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot during the Second World War.