Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735) is a work of fiction by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. Swift's masterpiece, it is his most celebrated work and one of the indisputable classics of the English language.

Adaptations

Gulliver's Travels has been adapted several times for film and television.

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• Le Voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les géants (1902): A French short silent adaption directed by Georges Méliès.
• Gulliver's Travels (1939): animated feature produced by Fleischer Studios and Paramount Pictures as a response to the success of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, directed by Dave Fleischer. The film is generally considered one of the best from The Golden Age of Hollywood animation, although it varies widely from the original novel. Fleischer used the rotoscope to animate the character of Gulliver, tracing from footage of a live actor. The film was a moderate success, and its Lilliputian characters appeared in their own cartoon short subjects. With the expiration of its copyright, this film has entered the public domain, and can be downloaded at no charge from the Prelinger Archive.http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=feature_films&collectionid=gullivers_travels1939
• The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960): The first live action adaption of Gulliver's Travels, but also incorporating the stop motion animation of Ray Harryhausen. It was directed by Jack Sher and starred Kerwin Mathews.
• Gulliver's Travels (1977): Live action/animated musical film directed by Peter R. Hunt and starring Richard Harris featuring the Lilliput voyage only.
• Gulliver's Travels (1992): Animated television series starring the voice of Terrence Scammell.
• Gulliver's Travels (1996): Live-action television mini-series starring Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen. In this version Dr. Gulliver has returned to his family from a long absence. The action shifts back and forth between flashbacks of his travels and the present where he is telling the story of his travel and has been committed to an asylum.
• Gulliver's Travels (2005): 3-D IMAX film still in production.
• The character of Gulliver appears in the Doctor Who story The Mind Robber, played by Bernard Horsfall