Gulliver's Travels (1939 film)

Gulliver's Travels
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Dave Fleischer Animation directors Seymour Kneitel Willard Bowsky Tom Palmer Grim Natwick William Henning Roland Crandall Thomas Johnson Robert Leffingwell Frank Kelling Winfield Hoskins Orestes Calpini
Screenplay by	Dan Gordon Cal Howard Tedd Pierce I. Sparber Edmond Seward
Story by	Edmond Seward
Based on	Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Produced by	Max Fleischer
Starring	Jessica Dragonette Lanny Ross
Cinematography	Charles Schettler
Music by	Victor Young Leo Robin (songs) Ralph Rainger (songs) Al Neiburg (songs) Winston Sharples (songs) Sammy Timberg (songs)
Production companies	Paramount Pictures Fleischer Studios
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	December 22, 1939 (1939-12-22)
Running time	76 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$700,000[1]
Box office	$3.27 million[2]

Gulliver's Travels is a 1939 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Max Fleischer and directed by Dave Fleischer for Fleischer Studios.^[3] Released to cinemas in the United States on December 22, 1939,^[4] by Paramount Pictures, the story is a very loose adaptation of Jonathan Swift's 1726 novel of the same name, specifically only the first part of four, which tells the story of Lilliput and Blefuscu, and centers around an explorer who helps a small kingdom who declared war after an argument over a wedding song. The film was Fleischer Studios' first feature-length animated film, as well as the second animated feature film produced by an American studio after Walt Disney Productions' Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, as Paramount had commissioned the feature in response to the success of that film.^[5] The sequences for the film were directed by Seymour Kneitel, Willard Bowsky, Tom Palmer, Grim Natwick, William Henning, Roland Crandall, Thomas Johnson, Robert Leffingwell, Frank Kelling, Winfield Hoskins, and Orestes Calpini.