Gulliver Mickey

Gulliver Mickey
Gulliver Mickey
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	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	May 19, 1934;
Country	United States
Language	English

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]

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), but 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]

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.

External links

Gulliver Mickey at IMDb

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[ultimate-1] Kaufman, J.B.; Gerstein, David (2018). Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History. Cologne: Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8365-5284-4.

[2] Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 108–109. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.

[3] Scott, Keith (3 October 2022). Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2. BearManor Media. p. 239. Retrieved 28 September 2022.

[4] "Mickey Mouse in Black and White DVD Review". DVD Dizzy. Retrieved 19 February 2021.

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