Gulliver's Travels (1977 film) Gulliver's Travels (1977 film) Gulliver's Travels is a 1977 film based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift. It mixed live action and animation, and starred Richard Harris in the title role. The opening sequence in live action shows Gulliver announcing his intention to go to sea as a ship's surgeon, followed by scenes of a shipwreck. The remainder of the film has Harris on Lilliput and Blefuscu, with the tiny inhabitants created by animation. At the very end of the film, having escaped by boat from Lilliput, Gulliver encounters one of the giant inhabitants of Brobdingnag,
Gulliver's Travels an Irish publisher printing an anti-British satire, or possibly because the text he worked from did not include the passage. In 1899 the passage was included in a new edition of the "Collected Works". Modern editions derive from the Faulkner edition with the inclusion of this 1899 addendum. Isaac Asimov notes in "The Annotated Gulliver" that Lindalino is generally taken to be Dublin, being composed of double lins; hence, Dublin. "Gulliver's Travels" has been the recipient of several designations: from Menippean satire to a children's story, from proto-science fiction to a forerunner of the modern novel. Published seven years after