Gulliver Mickey
Gulliver Mickey is a black and white short cartoon in the Mickey Mouse series, produced by Walt Disney and released by United Artists in 1934. It was the 66th Mickey Mouse short film to be released, and the fourth of that year.[2]
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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 |
Plot
Mickey is first seen reading Gulliver's Travels, the 1726 novel by Jonathan 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 of Gulliver'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 giant spider (Pete). However, after telling the story, one of the children dangles a fake spider attached to a fishing 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
This short would later be adapted as part of the Timeless River world in Kingdom Hearts II as a mission where Sora, Donald Duck and Goofy protect the town from the Heartless, led by one attacking from an airplane.
Voice cast
- Mickey Mouse: Walt Disney
- Pluto: Pinto Colvig
- Mickey's Nephews: Marcellite Garner
- Giant Spider: Billy Sheets[3]
Home media
The short was released on December 2, 2002, on Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Black and White.[4]
See also
References
- Kaufman, J.B.; Gerstein, David (2018). Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History. Cologne: Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8365-5284-4.
- Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 108–109. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- Scott, Keith (3 October 2022). Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2. BearManor Media. p. 239. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
- "Mickey Mouse in Black and White DVD Review". DVD Dizzy. Retrieved 19 February 2021.