Gulliver's Travels [Remastered Edition] (1939) DVD

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"Gullivers Travels" was written by the famous 17th Century writer Jonathan Swift and adapted for the screen by Edmond Seward and his gifted team. The well-known tale is retold in a fascinating manner in this animated feature. The stunning visuals, hilarious dialogues, lively background music and vivid imagery witnessed throughout the film are characteristic of the Fliescher brothers, Max and David who produced and directed the movie. The visuals are absolutely stunning, considering the fact that this feature was produced in an age when computer assisted programs were unheard of. No detail is left to imagination and the story unfolds as an uninterrupted narrative. It is not surprising that he film went on to win two Academy Award Nominations - for the Best Original Score and the Best Song (Faithful Forever), and surely deserves the accolades that have been showered upon it through the decades."

Gulliver's Travels [Remastered Edition] (1939) DVD
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Bad remastering

Historically Significant...

A Delightful Old-Fashioned Cartoon

A NOT so small achievement!

Classic Film

Gulliver's Travels [Remastered Edition] (1939) DVD
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Release Date: 2005-03-22

Product Description

"Gullivers Travels" was written by the famous 17th Century writer Jonathan Swift and adapted for the screen by Edmond Seward and his gifted team. The well-known tale is retold in a fascinating manner in this animated feature. The stunning visuals, hilarious dialogues, lively background music and vivid imagery witnessed throughout the film are characteristic of the Fliescher brothers, Max and David who produced and directed the movie. The visuals are absolutely stunning, considering the fact that this feature was produced in an age when computer assisted programs were unheard of. No detail is left to imagination and the story unfolds as an uninterrupted narrative. It is not surprising that he film went on to win two Academy Award Nominations - for the Best Original Score and the Best Song (Faithful Forever), and surely deserves the accolades that have been showered upon it through the decades."

Customer Reviews:

Bad remastering.......2007-01-09

This remastered edition og gulliver's travels ain't worth the medium it's printed on. Bad quality and it seems that they have had fun with the sissors on this copy.
There are scenes missing.

I am not at all happy with this purchase.

Historically Significant..........2006-12-26

...but not that well done. Disney had set the standard with Snow White, and the Fleischer's were just not up to it. Had Snow White not come out first, this would have impressed people more. But the Fleischer's Popeye cartoons were far superior to Disney's Mickey Mouse or any other character. While Disney still had the craft more perfected, but Fleischer had the characters with personality. There was something less sanitized and more subversive about Popeye and Betty Boop, and they were much funnier and entertaining than the restrained Disney shorts. Gulliver was simply not their strong suit. Historically, it's a significant piece and any animation historian should have it, but for somebody who simply wants to entertain, there are better options. If you're a real fan of the story itself, this is not the adaptation for you either. See the live action version with Ted Danson (I kid you not.)

A Delightful Old-Fashioned Cartoon.......2006-11-14

Lemuel Gulliver, the shipwrecked one, ends up in Lilliput. Its inhabitants are the Lilliputians--miniature people. To them, Lemuel is a giant, and they suspect that he is an enemy. So, while Lemuel Gulliver is sleeping, they tie him up. Upon awakening, he breaks free of the bonds, and shows the Lilliputians that he is their friend. The Lilliputians then love him.

But some enemies of the Lilliputians do not. They plot to kill him. They manage to steal Lemuel's flintlock pistol, and set it up as a "cannon". In time, they deploy it in order to fire at him.

In a battlefield scene, Lemuel Gulliver is dodging the miniature rocks hurled by the slingshots of the miniature-people enemies of the Lilliputians. Lemuel has no hostility to these people, and, in fact, wants to effect a reconciliation between them and the Lilliputians. He is completely unaware of the "cannon" set to be fired at him. I will not spoil the ending by informing the reader what happens to Lemuel Gulliver as he stands helplessly within sight of the barrel of the "cannon".

A NOT so small achievement!.......2006-06-02

Walt Disney said of this film, the first non Disney animated feature to hit theaters just 2 years after Snow White (the first animated feature), "We could have done better than that with our second unit of animators". Well, that may or may not be true, depending on how one looks at the film. True, the animation overall, but particularly of the incidental and secondary characters, is a bit on the crude side. Also, the character designs, as a whole, seem a bit more dated than the earlier "Snow White". Still, one of the things I have always loved about the Fleischer Studio is that they were the one studio that never tried to be Disney. MGM, Universal and even early Warner Brothers tried to emulated the lush quality of Disney cartoons and, for the most part, always fell short because by the time they got to where Disney was, Disney was already far ahead of them. But the Fleischer cartoons were always different. They developed a kooky but brazen quality all their own. There is no mistaking a Fleischer cartoon from the 1930s to around 1942. They have a unique, eccentric look and way of movement that no other studio had. A quirky, imaginative, jaunty quality that was bold, innovative, and unashamed. Once the studio was taken away from the Fleischers and changed over to "Famous Studios" all that changed and the studio output became more mainstream. But, during the great Popeye, Betty Boop and Superman era, the Fleischer cartoons remained origina and uniquel. And even with the rather "rubbery" Prince and Princess and the somewhat stiff Rotoscoped looking Gulliver, this feature embodies all the wonderful Fleischer qualities of their shorts, pushed up a notch for a feature and embellished with lavish backgrounds and dimensional sets or "setbacks", great songs and a wonderful rich score by Victor Young. Don't miss Gulliver and, if you like that, check out "Hoppity Goes to Town", (the second and final Fleischer feature). It is also very enjoyable.

Classic Film .......2006-04-27

When I was a child my dad used to read Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" to me and I loved it. My favorite part was always when the liliputions tie him up and beat him even though they are so tiny.

Therefore when I saw this film on the list I knew I had to order it. I was very happy with what I got. This is an older (classic) cartoon that takes all of hte best scenes from gullivers travels and puts them together in a semi-musical format (there is not that much singing.)

It's very faithful to the book as I remember it as a kid.

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