Gulliver Mickey
Gulliver Mickey | |
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Directed by | Burt Gillett |
Produced by | Walt Disney |
Starring | Walt Disney Marcellite Garner Pinto Colvig Billy Sheets |
Music by | Frank Churchill |
Animation by | Art Babbitt Johnny Cannon Les Clark Ugo D'Orsi Norman Ferguson Jack Hannah Dick Lundy Hamilton Luske Bill Roberts Ben Sharpsteen Cy Young |
Color process | Black & white |
Production company | |
Distributed by | United Artists |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Gulliver Mickeyis a black and white short cartoon in theMickey Mouseseries, produced byWalt Disneyand released byUnited Artistsin 1934. It was the 66thMickey Mouseshort film to be released, and the fourth of that year.[2]
Plot
[edit]Mickey is first seen readingGulliver's Travels,the 1726 novel byJonathan Swift,while the mice orphan children are pretending to be sailors. He then joins in their play by hiding under the rug, pretending to be a whale. After poking Mickey with a fork, causing their "ship" to collapse, the children start to cry. Mickey manages to calm them down by retelling the Liliput sequences ofGulliver's Travels,pretending it was a real event that happened to him by portraying the role of Gulliver. The story ends with Mickey saving the town from a giantspider(Pete), but after telling the story, one of the children dangles a fake spider attached to afishing rod,which scares Mickey out of his wits.
As soon as Mickey had managed to struggle to be free from the spider's long legs, he immediately gets the spider away, but in Mickey's story, he is battling a cushion making feathers fly everywhere.
Legacy
[edit]This short would later be adapted as part of the Timeless River world inKingdom Hearts IIas a mission whereSora,Donald DuckandGoofyprotect the town from theHeartless,led by one attacking from an airplane.
Voice cast
[edit]- Mickey Mouse:Walt Disney
- Pluto:Pinto Colvig
- Mickey's Nephews:Marcellite Garner
- Giant Spider: Billy Sheets[3]
Home media
[edit]The short was released on December 2, 2002, onWalt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Black and White.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Kaufman, J.B.; Gerstein, David (2018).Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History.Cologne:Taschen.ISBN978-3-8365-5284-4.
- ^Lenburg, Jeff (1999).The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons.Checkmark Books. pp. 108–109.ISBN0-8160-3831-7.Retrieved6 June2020.
- ^Scott, Keith (3 October 2022).Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2.BearManor Media. p. 239.Retrieved28 September2022.
- ^"Mickey Mouse in Black and White DVD Review".DVD Dizzy.Retrieved19 February2021.
External links
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- 1934 films
- 1934 animated films
- 1930s Disney animated short films
- Mickey Mouse short films
- Animated films about spiders
- Animated films based on Gulliver's Travels
- Films directed by Burt Gillett
- Films produced by Walt Disney
- Films scored by Frank Churchill
- 1930s English-language films
- 1930s American films
- Disney animated films based on fairy tales
- English-language short films
- American animated black-and-white films
- Disney animated film stubs
- 1930s animated film stubs
- 1930s American film stubs