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GULLIVER’S TRAVELS
U.S., 1939
Directed by Dave Fleischer
Starring Sam Parker
Approx. 76 min.
Fleischer Studios’ first sound/color animated feature film. The second Technicolor animated musical feature ever and the tenth biggest film of 1939—an anti-war film released two years before America entered World War II—and perhaps the best use of the Fleischer “rotoscope” invention, which converts live action to animation (for the character of Gulliver). It’s a hap-hap-happy adventure for all ages.
Presented with support from The Robert Jolin Osborne Endowed Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s and The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film
Reviews
“A pleasant and diverting animated picture-book, drawn in the brightest Technicolor.”
– The New York Times